[GH85Carrera]

I had lots and lots of sleep overs as a kid. Sometimes I went to some other kids house and lots of times they came to our house. My dad was gone a lot on TDY duty or just on a long mission to fly to the other side of the world. We always had the sleepovers when he was gone because when he was home often he was wanting to get some sleep.

Anyway it was always neat to see the way different "mom's" did things. In the era of Leave it to Beaver all my friends were kids in the neighborhood or from school that I knew for a few months before we moved again.

I remember one of my buddies had a pool in the back yard. We had 6 boys playing in the pool all day from 8:00 AM until about 3:00 and we were having a blast. Then the mom came out and asked the question "are you boys hungry" and we all realized we were starving but had been having too much fun to stop. I am pretty sure we ate all the hamburgers and hot dogs she had bought for the 4th of July party in two days. I think each of us had two burgers and two hot dogs and a lot of cookies. We were all skinny very active boys and just bottomless pits.