Family visit

This has been a really busy couple of weeks but I've been having fun too. My aunts were in SoCal for their yearly trip on Thursday, so I made the (now annual) drive down to Orange County to join them for dinner. I hate the traffic going down there (and back) but it's well worth the hassle. I enjoy these dinners greatly, it's just a blast.

Sarah had pointed out the weblog during the fires so they've been reading, which is pretty neat. I also got some negative feedback... it seems that I am really bad about posting family pictures and little details. Jean and Carol get lots and lots of pictures from others; why of all people am I so bad at this? I once tried to enlist kids in the publishing process and that went nowhere, we'll have to work on it.

We ate a great meal and talked about all kinds of things including their ongoing interest in the kids. Local family is the one big thing that I miss from time to time; being independent has its costs. I didn't wind up leaving their hotel room until shortly past 1 on Friday morning (sorry ladies!) after showing them some slides from our trips to San Francisco.

We also discussed more Jersey'ese after talking about my post from last week. Carol had a new story about a southern couple they had met (I can't remember where) who just loved the way people from Jersey speak, their version:

Jeet? No, Jou?

My version (a bit more Philly oriented):

Squeet?
Squout n' eat...
Kay, meecha ov'r dare, when jouz gonago?

It was a wonderful visit and we'll have to see about setting something up for the spring.

Note : I don't know exactly why I've recently become so enamored of discussing the funny way people from New Jersey speak, but I have. We'll just have to see how long the affliction lasts.