Briefly, here are some photos from last week: (Sorry, this must be uninteresting if you don’t know these other people, but it’s mostly for the benefit of Dad/Ben away on the ship).
OC Fair with free admission during the Summer Book Drive: The kids’ cousin T. (with “help” from J. kids) is doing one of her favorite things, a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle in the arts and crafts room:
Another cousin J. and Yoda5 check out the magnificent sand sculpture:
Huntington Beach Bonfire with Ben’s “4 sister” cousins and families and Vicki’s sister Nancy and daughters: By the way, Hotdog8 was the evening’s photographer…These were the ones that were least blurry 
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Yesterday morning, we woke up at 5am 
to get the kids to the La Habra Corn Parade/Festival with the cast/crew of their show, Wonka Jr. at the La Habra Depot Theatre:
Last night, on the way to the show, we stopped by at a farewell party to say goodbye to Cousin Anne and family as they depart back to Chicago. We even got to see another cousin, Cindy and kids, who live in a different part of town and we hardly get to see them (sorry, no photos from the party…I had temporarily misplaced the camera). Ben’s mom, middle sister’s family and their friends were able to attend the show.
Ben’s sister’s friends, the Parks, gave the kids beautiful flowers:
Our squirrel and Oompa Loompa on the far right:
Our cast/crew won first place in the parade contest:
This morning at church we saw the kids’ cousin Danny visiting from NYU. Here he is with his mom (Ben’s sister), another cousin Jonathan, Ben’s cousin Bae Sun, and Danny’s friend Stephanie and the 4 J. kids.
And later we celebrated one of my nephew’s birthday:
