These are great memories guys! Your kids can get to know their relatives if you tell them the stories. Family stories are some of the best history anyone can pass on to their progeny. Granted, it is a bit slanted, but who cares? Please folks, if you don't learn anything else from this thread, become the family story teller. Even the bad times. I'm starting to write down things like that. Particularly Cherokee legends from one side of the family and home WWII stories from the German side of the family. How they were persecuted and had their phones tapped, and their workplace infiltrated.

Keep the memories coming folks, but most of all, tell them to your relatives.