Old Highschool Reunions

My 10 year is next year and I was planning on going and scheduling a big trip around (stay for 2 weeks and visit all my family while I'm there).  Only problem is that our reunions are usually around Aug-Oct and my baby is due July      so I probably won't be able to make the trip with an infant. 

I loved high school and I still keep in touch with a lot of my friends from high school (part of the reason leaving the US was so hard for me was because 95% of my friends I've known for over 20 years!).  I also find it intriguing to see where people have ended up in their lives...even if we weren't friends back then or haven't kept in touch.  Seeing how the nerds are now rich...the jocks are fat...the stuck up or immature people have finally grown up...I find it all fascinating.  It's cool to think "You own your own business now and make $500K/year.  Awesome!  I remember when you used to pick your nose in class!".  Also, some of the people in my class are now "semi-famous" so that's pretty cool.  And because we grew up in a small town, over 50% of us now live far far away...a reunion is a chance for me to physically see people I'm still friends with, but never have an opportunity to see (like one of my besties in Albania).

Wow...now I'm depressed I'll be missing all this...

My high school is so small it just has reunions for everyone regardless of year graduated: I missed the last one because of time /money anyways, but I don't think I would go. No guarantee anyone from my time period would show up!!

I guess I feel kinda ambivalent about going - but it's always interesting to see what others are up to....

So probably not, I think.

My 10 year was on Saturday. I was originally planning to go, as I needed to go to Cincinnati anyway and it seemed a good opportunity to show off my hot Scottish man However, Delta then announced that they were suspending the direct Gatwick-Cincinnati flight from September this year, and as it was going to cost some £200 more if I went in November rather than August when the flight was still on, I decided I didn't care that much about seeing people I knew in high school and went in August. I'm in touch with everyone I used to like on Facebook anyway, so I don't feel that deprived. I doubt I'll go to my 20th.

I went to my 10 year and my 20 year is next year.  I might go.  I went to two different high schools and feel more connected to my first one rather than the one I graduated from.  I'd lived there most of my life and went to school with many of the same kids from k-10, so I always feel a little disconnected from the people I actually graduated with.  Facebook has been great to reconnect with people -- and I don't feel as obligated to "keep up" as I would 1:1 in an email situation.  Also, the snooping potential is just fabulous.   

My 10 year was last month but was just too soon after my move/starting my job over here to make it back.  I would have probably gone if they had scheduled it closer to a holiday so that I could have overlapped that with a visit to family, but a month before Thanksgiving and two months before Christmas will never be a good time for someone who lives far away to come home (it seems there are only 4 or 5 of us who live more than 100 miles from our hometown, so that would explain it).  Like others, I have already found out what everyone is up to via facebook, and to be honest, I can't really relate to any of them and doubt we'd have been able to hold more than a 30 second conversation with each other.  Most of the people I graduated with still live in the same town and still have the same friends they had back then, so I feel like they have a reunion every weekend, anyways.