Brett and Amy's apartment was full with all sorts of new baby gear, so they'd asked for no presents, but my mom still insisted on getting Brett "a little something"...
Later that afternoon, I hopped on the train and headed out to suburban NJ to spend the afternoon with my family visiting my cousin Lindsay, her husband John...
The next morning my mom got us up bright and early so that she could take us on the day trip she'd planned. The trip included a visit to a botanical garden (her choice) and a trip to the local Navy SEAL museum (the bait she came up with to entice my father into coming along).
There's not a whole lot to do in Florida. By day four I was going a little stir crazy so I borrowed the neighbor's bike and my mom and I went for a bike ride.
When everybody is all dressed up my parents like to take a group photo so they can include it in the Holiday email my dad sends around (which is like the newsletter version of this site for older people. Haha).
...to meet up with my parents. They were coming into town and wanted to see a Broadway show, so we got tickets to see Billy Elliot. My mom was super excited because...
The house my parent's bought is in a retirement community that has an age-minimum. Because Meredith and aren't residents, we need to be accompanied by one of my parents if we'd like to visit the pool.
On Friday night Mer and I took the bus down to south Jersey to visit y parents. Here's my mom getting enthusiastic about late night snack time. Meredith looks shell-shocked. Haha.
On the way to the airport, we stopped off to have lunch at the Sailfish Marina in West Palm Beach and met up with my grandfather's former girlfriend, June for the second year in a row! (June dated my dad's father for a few years after my grandmother died and before last year's get-together, I hadn't seen her since I was 12 years old!)
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