40 years ago...

40 years ago on the evening of July 20, I was a 10 year old kid at Camp Ludington in Holmes, NY. That night, before we went to bed we were told to sleep in our clothes and tie a sock to the end of the cot frame, if we wanted to see history being made and we'd be awakened for the big event.

I, of course, put the sock on the end of my cot and was awakened at around 10 p.m. (we campers went to bed very early I guess because I was roused from a very sound sleep and several of my bunk mates were refusing to go) and we shuffled in our PJs to the Mess Hall where all the other awakened campers were sitting at the long tables watching an old black and white television.

So while we sat there awaiting Neil Armstrong's step into history they interuppted the show with the announcement that a baby girl had been born in Ireland.

Her parents named her Ann.

Here's what she looks like today: Okay, so maybe they didn't break in with that news. Instead it was wall-to-wall coverage of this, the Lunar Landing, the first man ever to walk on the moon. Big deal, right?:Here's Armstrong today ... I personally think the past 40 years has been kinder to Ann, don't you?AND that little girl grew up to come to America, marry my brother, become an American citizen and my friend. :)

Happy Birthday Ann! I hope you're having a grand time celebrating the Lunar Landing and, oh, yeah, the big 4-0!!

xoxoxo