On Vacation

We are on the last day of the mother of all vacations: a trip that lasted over a fortnight and involved stops in many different states. It's probably our last trip for a while (more on the reason why later this week), so we crammed in everything we could: lunch with a friend in Kentucky, an overnight stay in Chapel Hill (as well as a drive past our old apartment), breakfast in Chapel Hill with friends, lunch in Raleigh with more friends, a week in a Duck, NC beach house with other friends, a trip to Lancaster to see the in-laws, and a trip to State College to see my family. (If anyone along this route is reading and we didn't visit you, I sincerely apologize--I wouldn't have been able to do one more thing without having a nervous breakdown.)

I promise to blog more regularly starting in July, but in the meantime here are a few pictures. My talented friend Tonya took a series of family portraits on the beach; here, Ben is making his "flabbergasted" face:



No trip to State College would be complete without a session at the Nittany Lion (and you can see previous years' pictures here and here):



I'm glad we fit in as much as we did, but now I'm ready to go home. We'll be getting home on the 3-year anniversary of our arrival in St. Louis and then promptly launching into the Webster Groves Community Days 4th of July celebration.