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Packing Behold! Darren has overloaded the car just a bit! |
Preparing to Go Darren, Beth, Danielle and I made up the first carload. |
Darren's Spear He claims it's a walking stick, but that doesn't explain the sharp bit on the end. |
Travel Blender Allen19 bought Ray and Mel a travel blender for their wedding gift. It lets you make mixed drinks in the wilderness, with no power... A cool item (if unused on this trip). |
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Tim and Riley I love dogs. |
Tim and Riley, II Of course, we missed the shots where Riley was having a good time wrestling with me... |
Cracker Barrel The first stop on any trip to MelFest: dinner! (Ray, Mel, and Beth are visible). |
Cracker Barrel, II Of course, I got in trouble for letting us sit in the smoking section. (Darren, Sarah) |
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Cracker Barrel, III At least Danielle looks happy to be in smoking. |
Contempative Darren "Oh, whoa is me..." |
Fun with Straws Many of our party had never seen this done before. So odd. (Sarah) |
Tent City Our tents, upon waking on the 29th. |
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Begging Riley Beth is no match for Riley's begging powers |
Begging Riley, II "No! Must not give him food!" (She last anoted 15 seconds.) |
Darren and his Stick Okay, fine, so he at least uses it as a walking stick... |
Chopping Wood Jesse enjoys that kind of thing more than the average guy. |
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Starting a Fire The better to feed is breakfast with! |
More Firewood Jesse has moved to a better location that showers us with less woodchips. |
Beth Awakens She's a lot happier here than she was the night before... |
Ray and Mel Can you tell they're getting married next weekend? |
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Breakfast Tray Hooray for Mel cooking for us! |
Hungry Dog Has to lick out the inside of plastic bags that once had bacon in them...poor Riley... |
Hungry Dog, II (He's really just good at making us feel guilty. I swear.) |
Preparing to Swim Well, to go out to the lake anyway. |
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The Lake Yup. That's a body of water alright. |
Henna Beth and Danielle had a fun time painting their hands with pseudo-permanent not-ink while the rest of us were swimming. |
Henna, II As you might be able to tell, Danielle is better at it... |
Preparing to Leave the Lake Aren't there a lot of us? (Jesse, Darren, Frances, Sarah, Mel, Gen, Keit, John, Ray, Beth, Danielle) |
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Mel and Mom Mary showed up! |
Mom Leaves Mary left again! |
Gomez The new puppy of the bunch. |
Gomez, II Such an adorable rottweiler... |
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Happy Riley Food, friendly people, and as much bathroom as he could want; this is Riley's paradise. |
Gomez' Friend Can you tell that Jesse likes dogs? |
Beth Hangs Out You can just see it in her eyes. "I want to play cards!" |
Happier Beth Cards make everything better! (Also important: can you spot the scary face?) |
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Corn and Cards That's how to spend an evening... |
Score Sheet Notice Beth's victory. Sorta. It involved some misdeals. |
Moo Did I take this shot? |
Frog I forget his name, but he's *cute*! |
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Mary Returns Well, fine, she was the one making us corn. |
Old Folks This really has been their show for the last 23 years. We're the upstarts. |
Frog, II He's back, and he's still cute! |
Frog, III So cute...if only we could have kept him. |
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Frog, IV And he hadn't tried to jump into my mouth. |
Frog, V Are you aware that I've probably deleted 2/3rds of the frog shots? |
Frog, VI And I still have piles. |
Frog, VII We love frogs, I guess. |
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Frog, VIII Certainly I do. |
Mel and Frog And Mel. |
Moth On the other hand, I only held onto one moth picture... and even that wasn't that great. |
Gen Tired or blinking? You decide |
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Sunday Morning Reading is the key. Apparently. Except for Mel. |
Moving the Pig Tent I was apparently expected to be one of the movers here. I got in a bit of trouble. |
Big Spider Cool spider though, eh? |
Fire Pit Breakfast before pig, that's what I always say. |
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Starting the Pig Fire You must make smoke to make fire, yes? *cough* |
Creek Contemplation Crikey! |
Feeding Riley Such a gloriously overfed dog, Riley... |
Pig Fire It's all started. Hooray! |
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Mel's Camera *smile* |
Gen and Keith She's a Civil Engineer, you know. |
Beth She somehow already looks drunk. |
Unloading the Pig Mike pulls out the pig on Sunday morning... |
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Unloading the Pig, II ...and wheels it down to begin cooking. |
The Pig Behold its glory... |
Mel If the picture had been in focus, the t-shirt would have been better. |
Mike and the Pig MelFest, in a picture. |
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Starting the Wine Trail Going out wine tasting is important. |
Pomona The fruit winery. Neat new stuff this year! Just look at the glee in Gen's eyes; what can be greater? |
Pomona, II They were getting a fair bit of business this year too... |
Owl Creek We only stopped at two winerys this year, but it was still quite worthwhile. |
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Sarah outside Owl Creek I don't think the sign showed up. |
Sarah outside Own Creek, II I know it didn't show up here... |
Yellow Moon Mike's Coffee House. It was closed, sadly. |
Mel's Annual Pig The novelty of Mel eating pig will never die down. |
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Continuing Dinner Dinner went on for quite a while, even after returning inside the house where it was dry... |
Very Wet It's wet out there. Yup. |
Very Wet, II Still wet. We had been sitting out there just a fe w minutes before, too, until it started to flood. |
Pork Cone It does a body good. |
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Happy Tim Jesse head-rubs are always nice... |
Happy Tim, II ...though people rarely get pictures of 'em. |
Happy Danielle Triscuits, Pringles, and Easy Cheese. Mmm... |
Happy Darren Popcorn! |
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Happy Everybody! Well, Jesse looks more like he's belching. |
Next Morning Mel and Beth are smiling quite a bit for just having woken up. |
Morning Beth and Sarah We should be packing up and leaving, but we're all too tired. |
Smiling Beth At least she's not cranky. |
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Morning Ray Very serious looking, that one. |
Breakfast Again Brats, Hamburgers, Pork, and Cinammon Rolls. Cooking on a fire is fun! |
Tail of Death Frances was knocked into the fire by Riley's tail and killed. Poor Frances. |
Contemplating a Group Shot Well, we're pretending to get set up for it anyway... |
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Still Contemplating Danielle, Beth, John, Sarah, Mike, Mel, John, Gen, Frances, Jesse. |
Group Shot Not too bad, actually. Ray, Danielle, John, Sarah, Mike, Mel, Keith, Gen, Frances, Jesse, Tim, Beth, Riley, Darren, ???, Hazel |
Another Group Shot I wish I remembered Hazel's Dad name... Ray, Danielle, John, Sarah, Mike, Mel, Keith, Gen, Frances, Jesse, Riley, Tim, Beth, Dave, Darren, Hazel, Hazel-Dad. |
Funky Pose Well, from some of 'em. (John, Sarah, Mike, Keith, Gen, Ray, Darren, Frances) |
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Chillin' We'll take off eventually, probably. |
Still Chillin' Eventually... |
Hazel She is a fun dog. |
Hazel, II Friendly. Silly. Has fun with Riley. Yay, animals. |
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