Weekend Away From Everything Normal

SUMMARY: Relaxing fun in the heat with friends and family.

"Vicon" is an annual event; has been going on since the early 1980s and started as a few college kids sleeping out in the back yard of the people who are now my sister's in-laws. It has turned into a group of --ahem--slightly older--folks and their kids, some of whom are now adults themselves--sleeping out in the back yard of the people who are now my sister's in-laws.

This is probably the last time it will be held in this location. Sad for the passing of an era, but fun to once again share memories and jokes and just have a good time hanging out.

This year, to commemorate our host's 50th and the Final Vicon, we all got t-shirts. And here's the whole gang.

As far as dogs--Merle Girls stayed home, so except for the two tiny dogs next door who yapped at us during breakfast, and this--

--it was a dogless weekend for a change.

Which is sometimes nice.