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Saturday: To the beach house!
Saturday: To the beach house!
The day was involved in prepping and packing for our week at the beach near Seaside.
We rented a fabulous 3-story 4-bedroom 4-bath sumptuous palace a block from the
ocean. We brought bikes. We brought paper towels. We brought everything in
between.
- Dad has a spiffy new hat.
- Linda is deep in thought - planning.
- The crab is eating the fishes.
- "Yes, Marianne, I am busy, do you want to help?!" (She is packing a portable chair into its bag.)
- Dad and Gary attach a baby seat onto a bike. This procedure took quite a while and, apparently, just the right tools.
- Movie Star Linda drives us for a quic look-see at Michael's Craft Emporium.
- Ozzie is not impressed by all the fuss.
- Sunset from the top (3rd floor) deck, looking out towards the ocean.
- The clouds were more dramatic in real life.
- The view from inside Mom and Dad's room on the 2nd floor. They have the ocean view.
- Linda and I unpacked her laden car, and then sat down and waited for the Larapalooza Caravan to arrive. Or a martini.
- Attacked by a crab.
- Apparently they have football at the beach, too.
- Aunt Linda and Lara are both growing their hair out.
- Sly, or tired?
- Noch ein mal.
- "Lollapalooza" is a nonsense English word meaning some wonderful or magnificent person or thing. Gary coined the term "Larapalooza". Dad made a sign to welcome the Koenigers at the Panama City airport on Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately at the critical moment he held the sign backwards so that a blank sign greeted the travelers.
- Lara didn't hold it against him.
- Linda is thrilled to inherit some lingerie that a relative of Mom's gave to her recently in Austria.
- It looks fetching with fleece and jeans. Lara has other fish to fry.
- We had BBQ pork for dinner (thanks Gary!)
- It is increasingly hard to get Lara to pose (which I think is a good thing).
- Grandpa and Lara investigate.
- Lara climbed up onto the comfy sofa all on her own.
- And started studying for mid-term exams.
- Rainer stumps us with trivia questions.
- Linda reads the tourist brochure to Lara, who looks suitably skeptical. Kathi examines the trivia-card-deck.
- Kathi absolutely melts in laughter. I forget now what it was all about, but she was literally gasping for air.
- She regains her composure. And after hours of a mysterious outage, cable is back!
Picture taken by Linda:
- The layered look.
Marianne Mueller
Last modified: November 20, 2005