More vacation photos

Okay - I'm finally getting around to showing the rest of my vacation photos. We started the week at my brother's and sister-in-law's place in southeastern PA. EJ and her cutie-pie cousin H had fun playing dress-up in all of H's costumes.

I had told H that I was going to bring her back something pretty from China. I found these matching silk dresses, so we couldn't pass up the opportunity to take a portrait of the girls:

Next, we went to my dad's place in southwestern PA. Instead of trying to drive Sophie all over PA seeing everyone, we asked some friends and family to join us for pizza one afternoon. Here's a pic of me with one of my best friends from high school, S.P.


And here's K with one of his friends, A.K. She and her husband have been climbing some of the best mountains in the world...we think they need to add Mt. Washington in NH to their list!


The following day is when we went to Ohiopyle. We stopped at K's cousin's house nearby:


We spent some time with my maternal grandmother (and the girls' only great-grandparent). Sophie enjoyed meeting her for the first time and was fascinated by her "wheels".


My grandmother lives with her brother, my great-uncle. He always has a huge garden. He and EJ went out and picked two buckets of peppers and tomatoes!

My great-uncle has rabbit traps (not harmful traps, just cages) near the garden. EJ and Sophie and I took my uncle and grandmother out to lunch that day, and EJ decided to keep all the lettuce and parsley from the plates to put in the rabbit traps. When we went back two days later, here's what she found in her trap:

That's right, she caught an opposum! The poor little guy was terrified and took off running when he was set free. I was just glad that there weren't any tears about not bringing him home with us. Although EJ did ask for rope to take him for a walk!

My brother traveled from eastern to western PA to his in-laws and stopped in at my dad's one afternoon. We decided to take a group photo. My brother took one where we were all making goofy faces...that one is probably better than this one! And yes, we all planned to wear green for the photo. Two weeks ago, my father's whole side of the family met in NC for my Aunt K's 70th birthday bash. My brother and I were the only ones out of 10 grandkids who weren't there. While in NC, each of my dad's siblings' families wore different color shirts in a large group photo, so we thought if we took our in green (my dad's assigned color), my brother could photoshop us into the pic.

My dad taught Sophie to "bonk" heads. He stares at her and then slowly leans in. She leans her head in to meet him and when their foreheads touch, he says "bonk". She thought it was very funny and is now doing it to us a part of her repertoire of tricks.

And finally, on the way home through eastern PA again, we stopped at K's cousin's house, where his Aunt G from Florida was visiting.