Nostalgia Lane (Part 7)

05/15/07
My senior year at school was fast becoming a memory. There was so much to be done. Senior prom, band concerts, decorations, football games, studying, making plans to go to Washington, D. C. to go to work at the Department of Agriculture.The last thing I wanted to do was be given this present: "A trip to California!" Oh, no....how could daddy do that?, make plans for me to go there when I would be leaving home forever and I wanted to in delve these last precious days with my parents and friends and the river in my mind forever. To just bask in the sunshine of these summer days!After much crying and whining to my mother, they put me on the train and I was gone. She said that daddy said to her after the train pulled out, "Annie, I don't think Pami wanted to go!" She said, "You are right, John, she didn't want to go!" But, you see,... we didn't tell him so how could he know?I did a lot of things others may not have gotten the chance to do. I spent time with my sister, Marlene and their two children and my brother, Ronnie and family who had three children who could do no wrong in my eyes either.I saw a lot of California and the beaches and the mountains of Simi Valley which had ranch style houses for sale at $99 down and the town was just in the beginning stages...where would one see that again now?I went out on a train and came back on the train which I loved to do. So many people became friends which will be another story in itself.When I came home there was still two weeks of summer left to enjoy in Pennsylvania. My three best friends were waiting with Mommie and Daddy when the train pulled in! Hallelujah, I was HOME!!