Dan & Kristen's Web

United States (Los Angeles, Vermont, Massachusetts, Atlanta)

Total Pictures Taken: 137

Summary

We spent the last three weeks of our trip in the United States, visiting family members in Los Angeles, Vermont and Massachusetts. We have included just a subset of the pictures from these visits and have included the rest on different portions of our website (see below).

Los Angeles

Dan's Brother, Sister-In-Law, and niece/God-daughter live in Manhattan Beach, a suburb of Los Angeles. We flew from Sydney to Los Angeles and stayed with them for 3 days, appreciating being back in America. To celebrate being back in a country where we could find good Mexican food, we ate it twice in one day.

Visit our Family - Joe, DeeDee and Marie page to see more pictures from this visit.

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Panoramic view of Manhattan Beach from the pier.

We are posing with Marie, our niece.

Kristen pushing Marie on the pier, with Joe and DeeDee bringing up the rear.

Dan and Joe with Marie in the 'touching aquarium' at the end of the pier.

Marie excitedly modeling her shower cap before her nighttime bath.

Vermont

After stopping through Atlanta for two days, we picked up the dog and drove to Vermont to visit Kristen's parents for almost two weeks. We enjoyed spending time with the dog and driving in America (except for the terrible traffic in all the major cities), and using our seasoned 'hoteling' skills to find places to stay along the way.

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Kristen with her parents, Jack and Lee, and the dogs, Bailey and Jenny-Any-Dots, at the start of a hike to the ice-beds.

Dan and Kristen with Bailey mid-way through the hike.

Kristen with one of the greatest rainbows we saw on the trip, just after a Vermont rain storm.

Kristen and Lee prepare to play the clarinet in a concert with the Springfield Community Band.

Bailey was quite happy to be with us again, but poor Jenny had to deal with a big bully for two weeks.

Massachusetts

Splitting our stay in Vermont, we drove down to Newbury Port, Massachusetts, to attend a big party thrown by Dan's cousin, Jack, and his family. Many of Dan's relatives attended the luau, including his mother and sister from Atlanta.