• Mary makes arrangements for a house on the man-made lake in Western Maryland. There is a winding path down a hill to our dock
• The house has a wonderful outdoor fireplace – 20 years’ worth of smores are packed into one family vacation
• Christina attends her first family vacation
• The vacation is moved up from late August to late June in order to keep Benjamin from attending
• Mary is re-enacting Karen’s role in Sandbridge Beach as the 8-month pregnant beached whale
• 20 degrees difference between top floor of house and bottom floor of house ensures that no one sleeps too comfortably
• We use a nearby indoor pool
• Boating on the lake: Party boat and waterskiing
• While mom and dad visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water, Mark Karen, Frank and Mary stay at the house and record the commentary to mom and dad’s 50th anniversary gift: a video compilation of their married life together
• Mass is held outdoors at a bar underneath a large gorilla
