Mark, 
I'm glad it turned out so well!  Lisa wish we could have made it.
 As I said before, I'll be more than happy to assist in setting up another one next year in San Antonio. I think that would be an ideal location and I'm sure we would get a few more people to attend.
 --John

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Hey John,

 

Oh, it was great.  I haven't seen any of these folks since I left Panama in 1990.  But, to see Gus Nieves, Luis Medina, Paul Frank, Brent Bebout, Bob Threm, Paige King, then Paige Brown, I think, Marilyn Tunstall and her husband Diego Maldanado, Poly Vargas, Victor Lopez, Jeannette Lee, George Alves, Ron Phillips, Wanda Boyd, then Wanda Rodriguez, Jorge Guzman, Octavio Solis, Keith Davis and all of the spouses, friends and the few kids that came was absolutely amazing.  I hope I didn't forget anyone...
 

I think everyone had a good time, just eating, drinking and socializing.  A lot of beer, wine and rum was drunk.  I think Ron even had a buzz on and I know I sure did. 

 

I hope I'll be able to swing the next one whenever we have it in San Antonio.  Odds are, I won't miss it for the world, even if I can't swing it.  We had that much fun just hanging out on Friday and Saturday evenings.  If we went to San Antonio, then we could be the tourists and get out during the daytime and do some exploring. 

 

Jeannette will be one of the main persons heading up the San Antonio reunion  A date has to be decided on first though.  The reunions will almost always have to be during the summer for those of us that have children in school.  And, that's quite a few of us. 

 

Ron may not be back home until either Monday night or Tuesday.  I'm sure he'll get the pictures he took up on the website real quick.  He was pretty much snapping shots of each person there.  As the night went on, we took multiple group pictures of all the Navy folks who were stationed there, all the women, no matter if Navy or not, then every single person who attended the reunion.  We had one teen take those pictures and he took shots of the entire group using every single camera that was there, and it must have been 20-25 cameras. 

 

But, I hope everyone sends their pictures to Ron.  It was wild as anything to catch up with everyone and the pictures will help us to remember it.  Damn, I've never hugged so many people at one time as I did last night, guys and girls.  Bob, I didn't appreciate that squeeze on my butt by the way.  Man, Robert, you are such a flirt with me.  <grin> 

 

Plus, I really had a chance to talk with several people who I didn't really know and I got to know them.  It was cool.

 

We will hold a reunion one day in Panama.  With you being right there in Texas, you'll have to slip down for it.  That'll be in a few years.  I think I promised Bob last night that I'd get my in-laws to put us all up on their farm.  Hmm, I'm not sure if they'd go for that or not. 

 

Thanks again, everyone, for turning out for this.  It was great.

 

Mark