AprYule
April 16-17, 2016
It’s been something of a family
tradition to have belated Christmas celebrations in response to bad weather or
family schedules that prevent getting everyone together in late December. This
year will be particularly late for various reasons, but mid-April seems a quite
agreeable time to have a family gathering. We’ve selected Canandaigua as a
central meeting site: Marjorie & I coming from Albany, my
brother Doug & sister-in-law Ann coming the farthest from Midland MI, stepsister Mar from Fort Erie Ontario, cousins Marcia
& Bob from closer-by Ithaca & Geneva. Since we were away in Vietnam in
March, we left it to Doug to pick a place to rendezvous. He seemed a bit
apologetic about his choice of the Miami Motel: less expensive but maybe a bit
too kitschy w/ pink flamingos and other such adornments. But it was
well-reviewed in TripAdvisor. And the combo of Christmas in April (christened
“AprYule” by Mar) in the Finger Lakes with a Floridian ambience seems
appropriately quirky . . . and, as noted below, his choice will get thumbs-up
from the whole gang!
