Finding a hotel room in Frankfort may be difficult this weekend with more than 300 families from 36 states and five foreign countries here for the Stewart Home School Family Weekend.

The school for intellectually disabled students hosts a family weekend every year to allow families to meet and see what their relatives do year-round at the school.

The students performed a play Thursday night, and were starting today with opening ceremonies and a parade where Stewart Home School Mayor Lindsey was to meet Frankfort Mayor Bill May.

"I love to talk, so I am going to talk with him a lot," Lindsey said Thursday. She said she might even give May some political pointers.

Today will end with a dance for the families and a fireworks display.

For one resident, Will , the dance may be a bit more stressful than usual. While he plans to party with his family that flew in from Colorado, he still has to decide between two dance partners.

Either way, I'm going to dance with my girl, Will said.

The families can participate in a bowling, fishing or golfing tournament Saturday.

However, most of the residents said they want to just spend a little time with their families. Though they usually see their kin around holidays, Family Weekend is always special. They get to introduce their relatives to their friends and show off their rooms and offices.

For Katie , this Family Weekend is particularly special. Her brother is coming in for the first time in the four years she has lived at Stewart Home. She said he has always been too busy to come, but now that he is on her turf, she is going to show him off and show him around.

The weekend also is a bonding time for the parents, said Sandy Bell, director. Since the school is never closed, there is no designated time when all of the parents are at the school picking up their children. Often, parents do not meet the parents of their childrens friends until family weekends.

Therefore, the parents and families look forward to the annual weekend almost as much as the residents, Bell said.

This years weekend theme is Together The Perfect Fit, said David Sellwood, school superintendent. Carrying the theme throughout Stewarts grounds were brightly colored puzzle pieces on signs, decorating the auditorium and on and in buildings.

For Lindsay, Stewart Home School was the perfect fit. She spent many years at a school in Wisconsin and said she did not like it. She had no friends and no fun.

Now, she has more friends than she can count and was recently elected mayor of the school, partly based on her popularity and partly on her platform of healthy living, better breakfasts and more physical activities.

The school houses residents ages 12 to 87 and provides intellectually disabled people a place to further their educational experience in a variety of ways, from high school and college classes to earning their GED to vocational work, Bell said.