I now live in Jacksonville, and my sister Nancy was coming down here for a visit. My daughter Robin, husband Anthony, and daughter Aubrey also live in Jacksonville. Mike and Chris Crotty only live a couple of hours drive south of here and they drove up for dinner. Their daughter Maggie, brother Tim, and Maggie's boyfriend Matt all live here in Jacksonville. Plans were made to go out to dinner. We chose Culhane's Irish Pub in Atlantic Beach. Two members of the 'Florida Family' were unable to make it. Anne from Jupiter and John Crotty (Mike and Chris' other son)
In the meantime, I heard from a cousin on the Jackson side of my family. Pete Tormey and his girlfriend Kate Coleman were coming from California to JAX to visit an old buddy of Pete's.
Pete and Kate joined us for dinner.
It is really a wonderful thing that people that haven't seen each other in a lot of years, or have no clue as to who they are eating with can sit down and there is never a lull in the conversation! We all truly had a good time.
I knew it at the time and was going to remind all....that day was Uncle Willie's 94th birthday! Happy belated birthday, Willie.
I have not figured out this picture 'tagging' thing. So: left to right starting at the bottom: Kate Cornwall, Nancy, Maggie Crotty, Chris and Mike Crotty, Matt Anderson, Anthony Grosso, Robin G., Aubrey G., yours truly, Tim Crotty, and Pete Tormey.
