10 Years Out

So we graduated 10 whole years ago. I know I say it all the time...but seriously - time flies!



I've been looking forward to our 10 year reunion for a while. We started talking about it last year - mostly Deanna and I - about how fun it would be. We had all kinds of silly plans about how we would dress, etc.
Now it's here, and our Senior Class Officers have done such a crappy job putting the thing together that I don't think we're going.
The reunion is August 16 at the Park City Mountain Resort. How pretentious can you get?! It also costs $40 per person to go. What do we get for that $40? Oh...dinner. Actually, it gets you "a delicious dinner in a beautiful mountain resort surrounded by people from an incredibly influential period of your life"
That comes directly from Mark Hansen, senior class president. Gag.
I didn't know Mark in high school, so I can't say if he's always been a jerk or if it's a new personality development - but his comments on the reunion site are all condescending and rude. Really makes me want to go.

On top of all that, we had a graduating class of just under 1000 students. Largest in history, at the time (and since, I believe.)
A whopping 89 people have registered on the reunion site. And that's not even an accurate number, because a few people have somehow managed to sign themselves up twice.
Our class officers are not sending out invitations - they say the cost and time commitment is too much for it to be worth it. They also said that they did send out invitations for the 5 year reunion, and got over half returned as a wrong address.
Bullshit. My parents, Matt's parents, Natalie's parents, Jon's parents, Sterlings parents ALL lived in the same house they did when we were in High School. NONE of them got an invitation.

The class officers tell us (on the site, of course - because they are not attempting to notify people in any other way) that they are hoping to see 150 people at the reunion. That's 75 students and their significant other. Wow. Less than 10% of our class. And I can pretty much guarantee you that none of them will be people I care to see - they'll all be friends of the class officers.

Lame, lame, lame. It all adds up to a reunion that I couldn't care less about. Which is sad, because it should have been fun!

Luckily, my old bff, Mindy, organized a park get together a couple of weeks ago and fed my need for nostalgia. More about that later - with pictures!

Also, Mark, Matt's old bff, got married and invited us to the wedding! So we got to see him, too. After, Matt said maybe he'd do something like Mindy did and invite his old friends over for a barbecue or something. I think he should. It was fun to see everyone, and we've fallen out of touch with almost everyone we were friends with back then.

Ironically, the group of friends we hang out with now almost all went to Alta, too, and were part of our graduating class.

Anyway, I just wanted to vent about The Great Reunion Debacle. Or, as Matt calls it "Our Class Officers Failure at Life"
LOL