Sam and I made a road trip to Lanesboro this past weekend. I wanted to see my gramma's grave and just get out of chicago for a while.
It was a great time, but was full of both happy and sad.
It felt wrong to be in Lanesboro and only seeing 1 aunt/uncle.
There was a Hanson reunion Sat so when we headed back to Lanesboro we stayed a little longer than originally planned to put in some face time. Muriel was adamant that Sam have a picture of us under the Norwegian flag hanging at the Sons of Norway lodge.
And the whole drive home.. I was half numb. the grave was grown over and solid.... nothing like what it had been a year ago. The flowers were fake silk ones. Gramma always kept live flowers when she went to visit Orvis every week.
And I felt like I should cry or have some more emotion over it all.. but it wasn't there. Then this morning I was reading a blog post about someone's dog passing away and the waterworks started.
In any case.... we're back in Chicago. Time to put the heavy heart on the shelf for a while and enjoy the precious few days Sam still has here.
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I was just thinking about the Hanson family reunion in Lanesboro and was wondering if I missed it. I went about 5 years ago and lost contact with the Hanson's there. If you could please send me contact info for the person that organizes the reunions, I would appreciate it. You can find my email addr through my profile. Thanks.
--Mark Hanson
Will do, Mark. Cherolyn told me that its always the 3rd Saturday in July.
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