The official Pismo 2001 reunion group photo.

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Top 20 memories of our reunion Sept. 28-30, 2001

1. Dinner at Brad's Friday night, 11 of us at two adjacent tables. At one table (Mom, RM, Rich, Chris and Edy) everyone had clam chowder, while those at the other table (Don, Jon, Lars, Heather, Thor and Bjorn) opted for non-chowder fare.

2. Don, Ruthmarie, Lars, Heather, Thor and Bjorn walking out on the pier after dinner Friday night.

3. Chris and Rich playing banjo and guitar at “open mike” at the Black Pearl coffeehouse Friday night, then jamming some more Saturday night and Sunday morning inside and outside 22B.

4. Eric, who forgot to bring his wallet, going for an early-morning walk on the beach and collecting sand dollars to spend in Pismo Beach.

5. Eric, Chris, Jon, Bjorn, Lars and Thor braving the chilly ocean water for some body surfing while Rich and Edy tossed a Frisbee on the edge of the ocean. Cramps, currents and surfboards getting dangerously close forced some out of the water earlier than others.

6. Jon, Lars, Thor and Bjorn playing touch football on the beach.

7. The Saturday morning breakfast (eggs, potatoes and frooot), Saturday night dinner (lasagna, salad and French bread) and Sunday morning breakfast (more eggs, potatoes and frooot) Cabin 22B prepared by Eric, Ruthmarie and Edy.

8. Mom receiving her Memory book Saturday morning after breakfast and reading it and sharing it all weekend.

9. Ruthmarie orchestrating the “nine decades” gifts for Mom Saturday after dinner: garden verses, flower and vegetable seeds, a welcome flag, poetry books, music cassettes, prunes, etc.

10. Jon celebrating his grandma's 90th birthday with sparklers for everyone, followed by an impressive pyrotechnics display on the beach below.

11. Ruth playing dominoes with Rich, Edy, Chris and Bjorn (and winning with regularity).

12. Dave's arrival Saturday afternoon, making attendance at the reunion a perfectly unanimous 14.

13. Cranium: Lars, Heather, Thor, Bjorn, Jon, Dave, Chris and Edy playing this fun and challenging game in Cabin 24 until midnight Saturday.

14. Jon, Dave and Lars going into town Saturday night after “Cranium” and shooting pool on Pomeroy Street until 2:30 or 3 a.m.

15. Ruth blowing bubbles in front of Cabin 24, reprising one of her favorite pastimes from 1999.

16. Thor grading his students' papers Friday night and Saturday morning. Did the five teachers in the family get together for (as Eric calls it) "teacher talk"?

17. Our family photo session after check-out Sunday morning.

18. Walking up and down the rickety wooden staircase to the beach. Eric counted the number of steps: 95.

19. Ruth giving shoulder massages to anyone who was lucky enough to receive them.

20. Jon roaring out of the Prince of Tides parking lot on his motorcycle Sunday and heading south.

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