Well, it's not exactly a family reunion..just a huge family gathering since I have 5 siblings.

Last time it was 21 people. Unfortunately my last visit to Ontario was not the best time to pull people together from jobs, etc.

Just in my family with their partners, children it is now 22 people. I am the only person that lives on west coast. If I include cousins and their children, spouses, I believe the figure is over 80 people.

That is just within Metro Toronto.

So the REAL family reunion, probably occurred when people attended my youngest sister's wedding a few years ago. The problem is at a wedding it's hard to talk to everyone because of seating arrangements, etc.

But that's good enough for our extended family...it's a real mixed bag because there are several interracial marriages, interracial children, plus recent immigrant relatives who can't speak English and then some Chinese blood kids who can't speak Chinese at all. (like some of my nieces and nephews)

Get it? It's all one mixed up crazy family! Welcome to my world...it is genuinely linguistically, culturally and racially mixed.