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Sunday, August 19, 2018

Summer 2018 Overview

We had a great, long summer vacation filled with family visits, seeing friends, backpacking, golfing for Jeff and visiting a few new countries for us girls.  The first week was spent in Michigan seeing grandparents, aunts, cousins and having lots of fun - horseback riding, water parks, shopping, jump houses and enjoying the long summer days.  The 2nd week Kiki flew in from Germany and watched the girls in Michigan while Jeff and I backpacked in Washington State.  We had a rigorous loop planned in the North Cascades, but with snow conditions had to cut our trip short and used our remaining time at Olympic National Park.  The 3rd week was spent in NoCal with Kiki, my parents, and our family.  We spent a few days on coast in Fort Bragg checking out various state parks, and the last few days in Berkeley with a day in San Francisco.  The 4th week was meant to be a backpacking trip in Yosemite with the 4 of us, but the fires precluded.  Instead we did a shorter 3 day, 2 night trip to Trinity Alps in Shasta region, a few hours in Lassen National Park and more time at my Aunt's house in Belmont.  It was nice my cousin visited from Chicago while we were there and we got time together.  The 5th week was meant to be in Idyllwild with my brother and his family, my parents and are our family at a great air-b-n-b, but the fires there changed plans.  Instead we split the time between SD and LA which in the end turned out great.  In San Diego we were able to meet up with really close friends (Jennifer, Koleen, Shelley Jeff and LJ), and also have family pictures taken (thanks Michelle!).  The last week Jeff went to Boise Idaho to caddie for a friend in a golf tournament and play a few rounds afterward, and the girls and I went to Sweden and Norway.  In Sweden we visited Morgan's first close friend she had in Italy, and Norway was purely sightseeing.

Lots of great memories from our summer 2018.  

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