Deep Creek High School 25th Class Reunion - C/O 88

Last week during my VA vacation, there was one of the best events I've attended in many years ... Deep Creek High School's Class of 1988 25th Class Reunion! Yep, you read it right, 25 YEARS and I have to say WOW, time has truly gotten away from me. It wasn't until I received the invite over a year ago that I realized it had been that long! Time has truly been great to my class mates and I as most of us don't look a day over 30. If I've learned nothing else in life I've learned if you take care of yourself your body will take care of you. As time was drawing near for this fabulous event I realized I had no idea what I was going to wear nor did I bring anything from home (Florida) to make that decision easier. *sigh* WELP ... guess I have to go shopping!! Mini me and I

set out to find a dress after our birthday lunch date. We ended up at Ross and there I found several wonderful selections! Here are the top 3 choices:

This is Calvin.

Designer whose name I couldn't pronounce NOR do I remember.

This is also Calvin and it fit my curves PERFECTLY but at the end of our try on session the 1st Calvin dress was purchased. For 1, it was purple (Hornet colors) and it was the cheapest! (DO NOT JUDGE ME!!)

Saturday morning, June 22nd, the day of the reunion, began wonderfully! Fellow classmate and friend, Wendy and I headed out as we always do when I visit. It started with time spent at Great Bridge Middle School for her son, Jordan, football camp.

Jordan is pictured with fellow class mate Gina's son Bryan. Here we go with yet another mini Hornet reunion! Gina (Bullock) Stukes spotted us as she sat in the stands.

Although we are all friends on Facebook there is absolutely NOTHING like a face to face meeting. It was so good to see her, especially since she was not going to be in attendance this evening.

After leaving there I needed heels and accessories for my dress so we stopped at Cato where I found the PERFECT pump ...

... you see how they PUMPED up the volume?? SOLD! Didn't find accessories there but DOTS did the trick NOW to the house to get dressed. Oh how pumped up we were to get to this evenings events and little did I know how the devil was going to try and ruin my evening. After prepping for the evening I put on my new, Hornet purple dress to find out it had a hole in it! HOW'D I MISS THAT WHEN I TRIED IT ON!! *palms forehead* This is 30 minutes before we were to meet at Roger Browns.

That face though ... enough said BUT Wendy would NOT let me get down and depressed about it. She went into immediate action! She made sure her children's event was taken care of AND off we go headed back to Ross. I wish she'd have taken a picture of my outfit I had on when I went into Ross ... HILARIOUS! I was getting looks left and right as I hit the counter in my multi-colored Dr Suess socks with no shoes, pumps in hand! It took all of 20 minutes to find another dress, exchange, get in a fitting room to get dressed and head out the door! Off to Roger Browns we go with the final dress choice ...

It's supposed to be purple but looks blue up against Wendy's dress NONETHELESS it was party time!

Inside Roger Browns, the 1st Hornets I spotted were Scott Erwin and Troy Brockett! It's one thing to be friends on Facebook, as I stated earlier, but it's so much better to meet and greet in person! After them there were so many familiar faces popping up; Laverne Mason, Sonia Knuckles, David Hadaway, Aundrey Barnes, Dawn Warren, Tamra Snead, Sylvia Dixon, Ellen Reid, Tyra Young, Lori Bostick, Rusty Hooker, Jeffy Colley,Carmela Duke, Michelle Wilson, Lisa Walker, and Kim Hardy just to name a few! There was a true feeling of nostalgia in the air and at this point it was time to drink, eat and get ready for the real festivities!

The feeling upon arrival inside of the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame was surreal! Faces and names that I hadn't seen or heard since June 10, 1988 were filling the room. As I looked around, some faces I remembered and some I didn't but all it took was a little bit of conversation and name tag views to change that quickly. The atmosphere was so familiar, almost like we'd just done this before. It was as if we'd just gotten back from summer vacation and it was the 1st day of our Senior year ... EXCITEMENT EVERYWHERE!! Sweetwater Cuisine did an awesome job on the hor'dourves and sweets. There was a decadent chocolate fountain

and a beautiful reunion cake

of which I had none! I actually had so much fun mingling, dancing and of course taking pictures that all I had was 2 cups of ice water! I was too busy having a ball to stop and snack. From line dancing (learned the Biker Shuffle and the line dance to Mary J's FINE) to watching ROCK show up and show out

to the elevated joy I felt when I saw my boy 'Toiny Boo' (Antoine Whitted).

Look how much was going on! There just wasn't enough time for me to sit and eat anything.

I can't remember not one person who didn't enjoy themselves, even quiet Katrina Glascoe. I tried my best to get her to come leave the entrance area and join us in the JUNGLE better known as the dance floor where Wendy (DELTA) and Krista (AKA) were having a SOROR dance off!

Do NOT ask me who won because both represented well BUT I am sure if I were to ask either of the 2 we'd know their answer. Katrina, nonetheless, did not move which makes her the smart woman that we've always known her to be! In the middle of our reunion, Ellen "ZeeZee" Reid Savoy presented us with a video/slide show which brought tears and laughter to us all. We've lost so many classmates, some I didn't know personally and some I knew but didn't know they'd passed. I've tried to add Ellen's video but it won't give me the embedding code, look for 'DCHS2' on YouTube if you've not seen it already. Theresa "Binky" Sawyer Ford also made a slide show that was awesome. We have some very talented people in our ranks.

I have to say, after watching Ellen's video presentation it hit me just how blessed we truly are. We are still here, above ground and able to celebrate 25 years of public school freedom, together with some of the greatest people on earth! It was nothing far from EPIC the way we all came together and were able to get along, no one looking down on anyone else or judging because of their past, present or foreseeable future. The only thing going on at the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame that night was some good ole HORNET comradery and I'm proud to say I was a part of it.

Katherine Porterfield Gray and Scott Erwin you guys are FANTASTIC!

You, along with Sandra Witherspoon, David Hadaway and Rusty Hooker put together an awesome evening that will be talked and blogged about for months to come ... not to mention the pictures that keep surfacing! The next 5 years will pass by so quickly as we prepare for our 30th class reunion and I can't wait! This event reignited my true being ... I BLEED PURPLE AND WHITE!! ONCE A HORNET ALWAYS A HORNET!