20-Year High School Reunion

It's all over Facebook.

Plans for our 20-year high school reunion.
Yes, I graduated in the year 1993.
A group has been created and old pictures are being posted left and right.
Some of which I'm going to be sharing in this post.
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My first reaction?!

I'm going to go!

I didn't go to my 10-year reunion because I didn't really care much about it and honestly, I didn't want to spend the money.

Not to mention, I didn't keep in touch with anyone I went to high school at that time.

(that was before Facebook and all the social media that there is now)

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First off, let me give you some background.

I grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

From age 4-years old until age 15.

That's when we moved to Arkansas.

Hot Springs, Arkansas to be exact.

My parents hometown. Where they had grown up and all of our family, to this day, still lives.

I was in the 10th grade.

So, I went from being with kids that I knew my whole life and thrown into a high school full of people who had known each other their whole lives.

I was the new kid.

I did pretty good. I had tons of friends and hung out with the 'in crowd.
But you know what?
When it was all said and done none of the people I hung around with in high school ended up being life long friends that I have kept in touch with in the last 20-years.
Yes, there's the Facebook posts and a couple of them even came to our wedding reception we had in Arkansas but for the most part my chilhood friends in Louisiana and college friends are my core group to this day.
That doesn't mean I don't still love the friendships I had in high school.

They were great.

Memories I'll have forever.

But the more I have given thought about going to my 20-year reunion, that is taking place this June in Hot Springs, the more I think I'm going to skip out again.

Why you ask?
I'm just not sure I care enough.

The money Brad and I would spend on plane tickets, a rental car and other travel expenses we could use to take a vacation somewhere we were really excited about going!

I initially thought we could use the reunion as an excuse to bring Shelby to see family but many of them are coming here this next month.

And, my Mom brought up a good point.
If you're going to spend the money to go anywhere you should use it to go down to Louisiana and bring Shelby to meet my close friends and my family(brother and his kids)down there.

So, as much as I would think it would be fun to reminsence about my high school days and the bad outfits, big bows and crazy talent shows I participated in(see below photo).

I'm not going to do it.

No 20-year high school reunion for me.

I'll just have to read about it and see all the pictures on Facebook instead.

I think we'll take our money and head to the beach instead.