Esther graduated from Cal-Tech, SLO the day after our last full day of school, so we hopped on a plane and headed down to California to spend a long weekend with family. Piper was almost cheerful the entire time because we rented The Turtle House, a wonderful, large house that fit the 12 of us and had two resident tortoises in a pen in the back.
I really enjoyed the entire area. Downtown San Luis Obispo is charming, the different beaches are great for exploring, and we had some fun exploring the inland parks, zoo, and waterpark.
But mostly, we were there for the family. I love getting updated pictures of the cousins! These are some of my favorite people in the world.
We did get some family shots–the first is the direct Need line. “Not a drop do I have, but the name,” probably said Shakspeare, or maybe just a bunch of monkeys with typewriters.
Grandpa and Grandma with the youngest six of their eight grandchildren.
And the whole fam-dam-ily, at least the Dan and Dwayne branches, from ages 13 to 80.
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