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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.
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Dad has a spiffy new hat.
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Linda is deep in thought - planning.
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The crab is eating the fishes.
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"Yes, Marianne, I am busy, do you want to help?!" (She is packing a portable chair into its bag.)
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Dad and Gary attach a baby seat onto a bike. This procedure took quite a while and, apparently, just the right tools.
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Movie Star Linda drives us for a quic look-see at Michael's Craft Emporium.
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Ozzie is not impressed by all the fuss.
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Sunset from the top (3rd floor) deck, looking out towards the ocean.
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The clouds were more dramatic in real life.
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The view from inside Mom and Dad's room on the 2nd floor. They have the ocean view.
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Linda and I unpacked her laden car, and then sat down and waited for the Larapalooza Caravan to arrive. Or a martini.
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Attacked by a crab.
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Apparently they have football at the beach, too.
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Aunt Linda and Lara are both growing their hair out.
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Sly, or tired?
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Noch ein mal.
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"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.
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Lara didn't hold it against him.
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Linda is thrilled to inherit some lingerie that a relative of Mom's gave to her recently in Austria.
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It looks fetching with fleece and jeans. Lara has other fish to fry.
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We had BBQ pork for dinner (thanks Gary!)
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It is increasingly hard to get Lara to pose (which I think is a good thing).
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Grandpa and Lara investigate.
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Lara climbed up onto the comfy sofa all on her own.
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And started studying for mid-term exams.
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Rainer stumps us with trivia questions.
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Linda reads the tourist brochure to Lara, who looks suitably skeptical. Kathi examines the trivia-card-deck.
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Kathi absolutely melts in laughter. I forget now what it was all about, but she was literally gasping for air.
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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