JOHN STONE'S DIARY AND PHOTOS OF REUNION 2014
2014 Alpha reunion Marlborough Massachusetts.
Tuesday, May 27th
Stones arrived at hotel at 9:30 pm. We ordered food at hotel restaurant and while getting it prepared we unloaded
car and dinner was ready for us by the time I brought the luggage cart back down. It was late so we ate in our
room.
Wednesday the 28th:
Brooke and I ate early breakfast at hotel. At 9:15 am, I headed to the Logan
airport to pick up Jerry Peterson. It
was supposed to be a 38 minute drive. I wanted to get there early but ran into traffic at the toll stop and never
arrived at the airport until 11:11. Jerry said he wasn't
there very long and waiting outside the arrival pick up.
We then headed back to the hotel in less than 45 minutes.
When Brooke found us in the hotel lobby we went for lunch at the 99.
That's when the waitress thought Jerry said he was a "traveling origami
salesman" . Can't remember what Jerry
actually said but maybe something about traveling to Alpha
reunion organization ... Or something ...?
When Brooke, Jerry, and John returned to the hotel after eating at the 99
restaurant, Jerry and john played a
little guitar.
Don't remember much for the rest of Wednesday.
Thursday the 29th:
Brooke, John, decided to go with David Todd, Peterson, Lopez, Woycehoski to see
the Constitution. I told them I
thought that the constitution was in Washington DC! They were talking about the boat the....USS constitution in
Boston. Jerry, being the worldly traveling guy he is , took over his point man skills and got us there and back by
shuttle, train, subway, bus, cab, train, and back to the
hotel by the shuttle. It was a great adventure and fun.
At the hotel we met up with Carl and Sandy Swon, and Doug and Virginia Brablec,
and our group all went to
Olive Garden for dinner. Great choice!
Not sure after that. Maybe more music..
Friday, the 30th:
Tours
Alpha dinner
Entertainment
Lots of visiting with attendees.
Met Chuck Mohr
Later Swon, Brablec, Stone played some more music....
Saturday, the 31st:
Annual Honor tribute and dinner.
Danced with Keely.
Visited
Sunday June 1st:
Said our goodbyes to those leaving.
Our group made plans to stay an extra day and hang out.
John Stone & Brooke
Jerry Peterson
Carl Swon & Sandy
Ron Woycehoski
Jose Lopez
David Todd
Doug & Virginia Brablec
Jerry and I went to Marlborough to wash my car and ran into the Car show in
town. It was probably a mile of
cars. I asked one of the organizers of the car show where is a good car wash. Ran into Jerry & Paula Virzi
sometime there. After we saw all the cars we headed back past the hotel to a car wash and then back to the hotel.
The others wanted to see the car show and eat lunch and it worked out perfect..
I drove and Doug drove. Everyone
enjoyed the car show and just being with each other. Great restaurant right in the middle of town. That was
where Carl said he felt a cold or sore throat coming on and I asked him if he wanted to borrow my pocket
Listerine antiseptic throat spray. Evidently he never used one before and took him three try's to aim it right ..
First squirt on the chin, then up the nose , then finally in the throat. By the time we finished lunch I think there
was only one show car left.
We left the restaurant and went looking for an ice cream place. Jerry and Doug
came through again and found a
place that, had garden supplies, antiques, ice cream, and
most important of all... Another bathroom..
Back to the hotel...
Nap time for Ron, Jerry, David, and Jose.
Doug and stone played some more guitar..
Then Carl came down to our room and said he still had a sore throat. 10 minutes
later he came back with his
guitar and we played some more while Carl sang.
Sunday night we had dinner at the hotel and had a good time talking, eating,
laughing at everyone's funny stories
and just being together. After my wife let me tell my famous chili joke, Woycehoski told me he hadn't laughed
that hard in a long time. Brooke said it was good to see
everyone laugh so much.
Back up to the stones room for more guitar pickin' and singing. All came back to
our room except Todd... Todd
and Jose left at 4am to airport.
Monday, June 2nd:
Early breakfast: With Woycehoski, Jerry Peterson, the Brablec’s the Stones and
Swons.
Brablec’s went toward Chicago and Swon’s headed to Illinois via, Cape Cod. ( I
think)
Stones took Jerry and Ron to Logan airport. Dropped off Jerry Peterson at 12:30.
Stones and Woycehoski went for lunch in Boston near airport and returned back to
airport and dropped of Ron
for flight back to Detroit Mich. and headed to see his
brother.
Stones then drove to Hingham Massachusetts to the shipyard and went to
Wahlberg's mothers restaurant 'Alma
Nove', at the marina.
While walking around we met Nacho and Paul Wahlberg. Nacho is Mark Wahlberg's
good friend. Nacho is the
guy that ate 18 hamburgers that he was supposed to bring to
Hollywood on the TV show.
After our dinner at Alma's restaurant, we headed back to the hotel.
We hit the pool before it closed at 10 PM.
Tuesday, June 3rd :
Another early breakfast at hotel. Packed up and checked out at 11 AM.
We headed back to Wahlberger’s restaurant in Hingham Mass. for lunch. We took
some burgers to go. They
packed it up very well for traveling. No soggy buns!
After we ate lunch we headed home about 3:30 PM. It took well over an hour to
get through Boston. It was like
driving in Beijing China on a good day. (Beijing has over 5 million cars usually blocking every road they have) or
like driving in Seoul Korea or even India. It was nuts!
We made it to our driveway at 11:30 pm. I can't tell how many times Brooke and
I laughed during the ride home
at Ron's and each one of the other guys stories.
Jerry said it all in an email. He said he was completely rejuvenated being with
all Alpha members again. He was
right. Hanging over a day was the best idea we agreed on last year. It really helped me not being sad or depressed.
Even after I got home I went right to work catching up and working on my bucket list... and hers!
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