Cultural Event # 5 Family reunion

This past week I traveled up to Idaho with my family to get together with all of my extended family, which in number comes to about 80 people. This is a tradition we have always had and we get together every July. This is one of my absolutely favorite traditions because I have been able to see how important families are to everyone and I think it's so much fun to get together and strengthen those relationships. One of our favorite activities to do together is going to a lake where we can go fishing, wake boarding, water skiing and tubing all day so now that is what we do every year at a designated spot up in american falls idaho. Of course all those activities are fun but it's the programs we put together that are really the things we rememeber. As the sun was going down we got all the boats in and everyone got together and sat in a big circle with camp chairs. Every family had to come up with a camp song to share and teach to everyone else. My family sung singin in the rain where you give orders and everyone sings the song in various and funny ways. My uncle's family sung the kid favorite "we're going on a bear hunt" camp song. He pulled out his good old guitar and strummed a good toon, told a story in song one sentence at a time that we all had to repeat and at the end of the song we entered into the bears cave and my cousin who was sitting behind a truck started making bear noices with a twine and a bucket that made all the kids scream and run cause they thought it was real. Then my cousin came out and had to show all the kids it wasn't really a bear so they all calmed down. I think family reunions are the best!