Family Vacation DELETED

The Evans family returns from our one and only total family vacation (all six kids) and find that all photographic evidence has been erased, courtesy of Getty and his video exploits (running around Jackson's yard).

 

Years from now we'll say to each other, "Seems like we went somewhere that summer...." We'll forget that within two minutes of our arrival in St. George, my toenail got ripped off and Elle blistered the bottom of her feet on the 120-degree cement outside our friends' house. We'll forget Buffalo Bill's rollercoaster ride with the Barstow veteran-rider and the old man's suggestion that Michael Jackson should have been burned alive in the town square. We'll forget the cute little beach house we rented in Laguna with its surfboards and sailboats, teen-territory den converted garage, wicker furniture, and hibiscus-flowered bedding (comfy!). We'll forget that Knott's is better than Disneyland any day! Major thrill rides and no lines (I thought I had an iron stomach until I rode 4 of those rides within the first half-hour....) Cy was an inch too short for the big rides, so he hung with Cam on the mini-rollercoaster. I think they rode it fourteen times in a row. And we ran into the Burke's! ("It's a small world after all....") We'll forget how Getty surfed like a pro the day he learned, and MK and Mia begged to surf again the next morning. We'll forget sushi with our surf instructors. We'll forget steak-on-the-stone and Clint's movie-scene tear-jerker monologue with the piano bar "Moon River" playing in the background—ha ha ha ha. I couldn't keep a straight face. And I tried. Hard. We'll forget my swollen lips, an apparent allergic reaction to our dinner at Chili's (was it the chips and salsa, the Mesquite chicken salad, the fajitas, the Southwestern eggroll, the french fries, or the molten chocolate cake and ice cream?... I was hungry). 

Or, maybe we won't forget. No full-color photos, but there's always black-and-white text, right? Then again, how can you be sure I didn't just make this all up?....