We loved being with family! 
We loved driving in a Tesla! 
We loved going to Stanford!
We loved Mary's sleek new floors! 
We love all of you!
Our annual trek to Santa Claus, Indiana - land of extremely hot, non-Christmas-like weather - was last week. For the first time, E&M invited a friend! The good news is they all seemed to have a lot of fun; the less good news was that that meant Steven and I had to drive separately.
Lots of roller coasters were ridden and the lines were happily short. Michael and Steven wowed all spectators with their basketball hooping abilities and we came home with five sports banners as prizes.
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| We ate at a seafood restaurant. Emily and Shelby ate fish with the fishes' faces attached. |
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| We are at Capri. The water was amazing!!! |
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| Laura took this picture; Mom has it up in our home and her office. |
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| Our last night with our tour guide, Emilio. He is not in the picture. We each ate a pizza that was bigger than our face. |
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| This is everyone in the Ky. contingency! |
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| This was the very coolest place. We heard a story about prostitution and saw a brothel. We also met a stray sheep puppy and pet it a LOT. We probably should have gotten tetanus shots afterward. |
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| All dressed up for dinner on the cruise ship. |
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| We saw the Coliseum. We could see it from our hotel! We did a looooooot of walking! |
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| There were bunches of strawberries everywhere - I was with Laura. She wrote about it on her blog. |
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| Best part of the entire trip was getting to be with Aunt Laura. |
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| Saw this with Aunt Laura. Love Aunt Laura! |
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| View from a Greek island; we walked for a long time on the beach and got lost. We also ate chicken gyros that night. |
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| This was our first sighting of land after we left on the cruise ship! |
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| After walking up stairs for 30 minutes, we saw this theatre. |
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| Still with Aunt Laura. The views were like a postcard. |
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| At the airport, about to leave for the US. Our last day. What an experience it was. |
(that was
my vote) and the zoo (that was Steven's vote) and then stayed a
hotel (that was
Elizabeth's vote), where we had pig out night (that was Michael's vote). If you'll recall, pig
out night is when you go to a grocery store and buy
anything you want, no matter how unhealthy it is and you
get to eat as much of it as you want. :) 
Happy memories of a wonderful trip: seeing a white tiger, playing ping pong, standing in front of a Monet, and of course, eating too many potato chips. 
