Showing posts with label Touby Cousins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Touby Cousins. Show all posts

Saturday, September 15, 2018

Touby Cousins 2018: Yellow Springs, Ohio

September 10-13, 2018
We all stayed at the beautiful Arthur Morgan House B&B which was like living in the pages of Architectural Digest magazine!  It was so comfortable for our group of twelve ... wonderfully furnished and appointed ... every space perfectly balanced in design, scale, color and texture.  Every detail of guest comfort was considered, from luxurious robes in our rooms to interesting books in the living room.  Original art graced guest rooms and common spaces.  Christina's breakfast each morning consisted of fruits, a special egg concoction, and pancakes - never the same way twice - and several pots of coffee.  On our last morning she surprised us with a miniature carrot cake muffin topped artfully with a swirl of cream cheese frosting.  We were well-fed!

Arthur Morgan House B&B
The dining room
Suite 2

We explored regional Native American history at SunWatch Indian Village, then on to Carillon Brewing Company where Mark and Pauline joined us for lunch and some historic brews.
The beer wagon
Longfellow poem at the base of the carillon



Marcia and Gene
Kent and Caroline
Dinner at the Sunrise Cafe
Bill and Jane
Charlotte and Terry
Nancy and Mark
So glad we went to the Funk Music Hall of Fame in Dayton!  We finished up with a little air guitar!!





We did a fair amount of eating, and Yellow Springs had a great selection of unique restaurants.  We sat outdoors on a perfect evening at Winds Cafe.  Then the next night went to Calypso Grill and Smokehouse which specialized in Latin and Caribbean fare.



Marcia and Gene
Bill and Jane
Mark and Nancy

Caroline and Kent
Gene and Marcia
Pauline and Mark
Bill and Jane
Charlotte and Terry
Nancy and Mark



And we won't tell Mother this story... :)


Tuesday, August 16, 2016

COUSINS: FTGO 2016

This year we did an abbreviated version of our annual cousins reunion, FTGO (For Touby Girls Only), in honor of the original five Touby women.  It was a serendipitous landing on the calendar when most had a few free days.  Our pop-up event was staged in Lindenhurst at Jane's and we wandered across the border into Wisconsin, east to Illinois Beach State Park, and into Lake Forest.  But mostly we talked, laughed and gnoshed our way through four days.

Marcia, Charlotte, Caroline, Jane and Nancy
Kokomo wine!
Galette for dinner
Lake Forest Cemetery

Cougars loose in Milwaukee (Public Market in Third Ward)

Our chocolate boy at the Red Elephant chocolate shop

Lunch on the roof at Benelux

Charlotte and Marcia, the Coburn sisters

Frittes in a paper cone

Caroline and Nancy

Milwaukee Art Museum

Lake Michigan from Milwaukee Art Museum

Caroline, Marcia, Charlotte and Nancy

Exterior hall leading to galleries

Calatrava's breathtaking architecture


A gorgeous day on Lake Michigan


Then (about 1956)
And now

Illinois Beach State Park, Zion, IL






A visit from Ken and Lucky Dog
And a very special highlight of the week was a front row seat for "Kevin Le Deuce" male stripper!  Thanks Kevin, you left us begging for more!!