AHEC Gathering!

This afternoon our old AHEC crew got together for a mini-reunion. In the last nineteen years of my professional career, I worked with the Eastern Washington Area Health Education Center. We  had one of the best groups of people I have ever had the pleasure to work with!

Every year since I retired, we have gotten together once a year. At first we met in a local restaurant for lunch and talked the afternoon away. Then we started meeting in homes so that we would have a place for the children to play while we visited. This year is perhaps the first year that we have been able to find a date when everyone could come. And as a special treat, we were invited to meet at Kaarin's new home near Medical Lake!

One of our main pursuits for the retired and near-retired when we get together is catching up on each other grand-children -- and great-grandchildren. For a couple of us (the younger ones, of course), it was checking out the new babies at first. And now, it's seeing how those darling little girls have grown!

It's kind of surprising that this group of folk would still enjoy getting together. After all, it's been over seven years since I retired! The rest of them perhaps occasionally see each other during the year, but for me, it's a special part of returning to the Spokane area/

Tomorrow we will be moving with Auntie Violet back to Ponderosa Falls. I will be so glad to have cell phone AND internet coverage!