5th Annual
Torres Family Beach Trip
Blue Mountain Beach, FL
May 14 - 20, 2005
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The many faces from the trip
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Dad eating an oatmeal concoction that sort of looks like rancid red beans & rice
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Emily & Anna Claire playing with the toys I'd brought down for all of the grandkids
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We hit the pool
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Emily loves swimming more and more.  She tired herself out just about everyday we were there, swimming back and forth in the pool.
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Anna Claire mostly watched from the sidelines with her bag of Goldfish.
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MC contemplates jumping into the pool.
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Anna Claire is wondering what Mary Claire is smelling that is so bad. (Is Malcolm around?)
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I turned the camera around.
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MC's a bit scary looking in this picture.
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Remember Jim Carrey's "Vera" character from In Living Color?  Click here for a comparison.
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She's actually jumping in, but doesn't it appear that she's being shot out of the pool somehow?
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MC appears to be attacking the pool .
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Rick came by to see everyone.
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Here we are at Joe's Crab Shack.  It wouldn't have been a Torres Beach vacation without a trip to Joe's.
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And then off to The Track for Emily & Anna Claire to ride rides.  We skipped the goofy golf b/c it was way too hot.
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Dad posing for the camera with MC's purse.
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Malcolm, bored, starts looking around at some of the scenery.
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This one catches his eye, and he asked me to take some photos.
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She was with a couple of guys already, so this was the best one I could take with she and Malcolm together.
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Nothing would top the evening off better than a trip to Krispy Kreme. 
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This year's group photo, taken from inside the beach house.
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Malcolm draws us a sketch of what he sees in the mirror every morning.
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At the coffee shop, right before we each headed  home.