Dear Cousins: Mike and I are to pleased to announce we had a great turn out this past weekend. In preparation for the event, our Editor (of the Dean Road), Kevin McLachlan, established a list of over 300 Boyds in an area local to the event and created a post card to mail to them. 71% of those that signed our guest book had attended as they received the postcard. Mike gave a Boyd history lecture/talk at 2:30 each day. Unfortunately we were so enraptured we forgot to take photos! Our clan tent was packed. We had guests in attendance from a few weeks old to over 90 years. Many more Boyd families have been added to Mike's collection to add to the database. One of the visitors was the daughter of one of the Boyds of the Ballymoney area (County Antrim, Ireland) that Mike visited in 2004. She had visited our clan tent just weeks after Mike's visit to her father and we had a good laugh over the coincidence. She lives in the Sacramento area and attends the games each year. She enjoyed meeting her father's visitor. She shared that Mike's visit helped to reconnect her father's family that had moved to New York and each had been lost to the other. Mike visited many of the related clans and continued to establish communications to further our study of our family at large. Many comments were received about how much people had learned from Mike, even when they thought they knew a great deal already about their family. Mike has discovered that the Treasurer of Scotland, under Robert Boyd, Regent of Scotland was of Clan Guthrie. We had fine weather and were spared both heat and rain. However, the wind did kick up a bit late on Saturday, straining our already duct-taped tent frame. We brought yet another tent frame on Sunday, "just in case", but did not have to erect it. Our tent faired better than we thought it might. For those of you who attended the AGM in Las Vegas... the winds were considerably lighter at Woodland. For those of you who attended Loch Norman games... the winds were not so strong as to blow over a "port-a-loo" as at your event! Next year, when the event returns to its "normal" weekend -- the last full weekend in April -- I expect our turn out will be even greater. Mark your calendars for April 28 & 29, 2012 and start saving your pennies so you may travel to join us at our Annual General Meeting and Gathering of our Clan at this event. The "Woodland games" are known as "The Friendly Games." Yours Aye, Lauren & Mike