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Hansen Family Reunion 2020: Activities on Thursday






About 2 months ago, I decided that our Hansen family reunion needed more activities.  I wanted more structured opportunities for people to interact and get to know each other better. No excuses for sitting around feeling bored.  So I set out to create a schedule with as many ideas as people suggested.

We started out Thursday with a scripture study with Dad and a yoga class at the same time (different room) with Heidi.






Our next activity was Ted talks, an idea I got from the Richard and Linda Eyre.We took video of each Ted talk for those who wanted to watch later.  There were about 7 total and it took about 90 minutes.




While the adults were listening to the Ted talks, the kids were making movies.  It ended up being a popular activity, especially watching the finished products.  We divided up the kids into 4 groups and put a young adult or teenager in charge:
  
After the Ted talks and movies, while we were waiting for lunch, Michelle did a folk-dancing class:


In the afternoon, people did a hike near Park City:

We also made shields for the Nerf Gun war which we didn't have quite enough time for but the shield-making seemed to be a fun activity:




That night we had our usual family talent show which is always a lot of fun to watch.  I'm still waiting for the video footage for our family from my brother who is on a really long car trip back home. But here's footage for the other families:


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