1988 – Sandbridge Beach, VA

• The family heads south for warmer climates

• First “everybody in one house” attempt

• Vanessa and infant Geneva attend their first Family vacation

• Karen, feeling like a beached whale, at a full 8 months pregnant, lies to her doctor to attend

• Mary brings a date – the wrong date

• David visits

• Fireworks on the beach for the 4th of July

• Side trip to Williamsburg to satisfy the kids keen interest in history…. And the opportunity to pay a hefty sum to stand in the heat while a woman in period costume explains how to make soap and candles

• Boys sleep in a loft above the living room