In the spirit of
this poast, here are our vacation photos. They're hosted on Google Photos (of course we have
our own problems), but you don't need to log to see them. I wish I could figure out how to embed thumbnails or something other than the yuge version, but I cannot, so you get links. Despite that, I do recommend Google Photos as a cloud photo service, if you're in the market for such a thing. And I will acknowledge that I have my own motive for recommending it, as the more delicious, delicious data we can mine, the sooner we can bring about the damn Singularity.
Without further ado...
First, in April, bey's friend came to visit for a few days. We came to Google and saw a
DOUBLE RAINBOW!
I learned from a woman who was there that when there is a double rainbow, the colors in the second rainbow are reversed!
Also the rainbow and the reversed rainbow have different words in Chinese (I don't know what kind of Chinese, she just said Chinese).
bey and cousin with androids
people captivated by double rainbow
yuge rainbow arc
double rainbow
I took a couple trips to Southern California for family stuff. The first was in May, to attend my niece's graduation from Cal State Northridge (also one of my mom's alma maters). I took my sister and her kids to California Adventure at Disneyland, to see all the Marvel stuff. I'm pretty sure I traumatized her daughter (different niece) by taking her on the Guardians ride, which was way too scary for her. Oh well, what are aunts for?
sister with baby and (adult) Groot
niece with Wakandan Guard
whole family with Black Panther
boring photo at CSUN
We went to an Ingress event at a campground near the Mendocino Coast, which I know nothing about except it's wine country. qingdai and team came down from Portland and let us join their team, it was awesome.
banana slug
banana slug
banana slug
Ingress art
Ingress art
Ingress art
Ingress art
Ingress art
Ingress art
bey with the Ingress art he made his very own self
Postmodern?
Seriously, just click through to
the full album, there was so much cool stuff to see there! Also vistas and tall trees and stuff.
In June we drove up to my aunt's dairy farm (Chico area for those following along in their atlases) for my family reunion. I'll spare you all the pictures of my boring family, except one.
my angel who would not leave me alone for a second (
meets
)
a video of a Miniature Pinscher harassing the cows
My birthday weekend bey's cousin was in town from Georgia, and we drove the Camaro to Sacramento and spent it with our cousins there. My former Women's Studies professor also lives in Sac now, and we plus bey have become super good friends, so she came to that too and it was awesome to see her.
PIBBLE plus me
There are other pics in the full album, nothing especially exciting. My cousin has the videos of me fairly inebriated, ostensibly "dancing" in her kitchen, so hashtag sorry not sorry you have to go find those yourself on Facebook.
Second trip to So Cal was for the memorial, but it was conveniently the weekend of my nephew's 1st birthday party, so that was a bonus under the shitty circumstances.
me and babby
me and waterslide
coyote just strolling up the street in broad daylight
seal
beached jellyfish which we may or may not have successfully rescued
sunset
sunset
me and sunset
Oh wow, what a convenient place to end. I didn't even plan that!
Okay, you are next. POAST YOURS NOW