Last weekend, we had a family get-together at the cabin. This is the second year that my dad and his sister have organized something like this, and it looks like the tradition will continue. Last year we met in Paducah, KY, and it looks like we might rotate the location to Nashville next year.

On Saturday, the whole gang went to Holiday world, which is only about 30 minutes from the cabin. We didn’t spent a whole lot of time together as a group, mostly because it’s so difficult to coordinate a group of that size. Everyone had fun, though, and we all got to do the things we wanted.

Cece was pretty excited because now she’s tall enough to ride the big rides, and we spent a fair portion of the day riding roller coasters. Carissa rode the first one, too, but decided she didn’t like them. We were pretty happy that she at least tried, though. Sadie got to spend the morning with Katy, which suited her just fine.

The five of us in spent the afternoon in the water park and then met back up with the larger group so that Sandi, Cece and I could go ride the Voyage (the park’s biggest roller coaster) one more time with Kristen, Cameron, Emily and Anna.

Sandi and I have a history with this roller coaster. Two years ago, we stood in line twice to ride it, but both times they shut it down due to technical difficulties. This time, when we rode it with Cece in the morning, it stopped in the middle and they sent a crew out to check over the cars. We thought they were going to make us get out and walk back — but at least we got to ride it. Other people in our group told us that the ride is much better when it goes from start to finish. So we went back to ride it in the evening. Sure enough, just before we got on the ride, they stopped running it due to technical difficulties again. By the time they got it back into working order, Cece had been in line long enough that she needed to go to the bathroom. And when she’s got to go, she’s got to go! So I got out of line to take her, but at least Sandi finally got to go on one complete, good ride.

When we were standing in line waiting for the last ride, I tried to take a couple of pictures of the kids, but there wasn’t enough light, so they all came out blurry. Except one, which sort of turned into an accidental portrait of Anna.

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