2024 - Cape May, NJ

 

• With Marie and Chris getting married in Lansdale on Saturday, Frank finds yet another fabulous Schneiderfest house nearby in Cape May.
• Mark (and then Frank) acting out labor in charades 
• Are you doing pushups? asks Tina.  No, I’m doing downward dog, it takes me a while to get up replies Karen (during charades)
• Welcome to the family, Daniel 
• Gentsch family visits en masse on Tuesday.  Loraine cooks for 37.  Everyone asks, “How old IS Amy?” 
• Ben and Rudy slow dancing during fishbowl (allegedly) 
• Ron and Regina’s first Schneiderfest 
• Brady’s second Schneiderfest in cape May
• Medoff and Schneider oldest vs middle vs youngest children yard game. Laura and Rudy dominate in Can Jam. Tina and Ben dominate in Spikeball. Alex and Maria are also there. 
• Many an Oyster Bay visit for one dollar per oyster happy hour
• John McLaughlin Cape May challenge completed ✅
• Mark, Karen, Frank, Maria, Rudy and Tina bike to the lighthouse and relax with a 199-step ascent to the top. New Jersey’s finest sangria was had to rehydrate 
• Evenings recapping Marie and Christopher’s lovely nuptials, planning for Ben and Danielle
• Medoffs go jet skiing
• Final count 24 over the course of the week **not including Gentsch‘s 
• Holden returns to Schneiderfest and fits right in with the gaming obsessed cousins 
• Marinellis get a house in our backyard. Kai and Vaness in a hotel next to Geneva and behind Schneiderfest house.
• Anna busy on her phone and laptop.  NEXT YEAR she’s retiring

2022 - Cape May, NJ

 

• Mark “spills the beans” immediately on Day 1, helping Karen and Joe bring in the groceries 
• Tina unable to recite the Pledge of Allegiance
• Geneva is 8 months pregnant. Hours spent brainstorming baby names for Geneva and A.J. 
• Arguably most haunted house thus far. Also the least safe house for kids, but luckily no kids this trip. Also a billion pillows in the house. House is historic enough to have its own website and be featured on postcards. 
• Horse and buggy rides past the house very often. Tour trolleys call out the house. People take photos from the sidewalk constantly.
• Porch life abounds, front back and side.
• Day trip visit (from a Covid safe distance) from Loraine’s family, Two of Ron’s daughters and grandkids (lil Ronnie) and Mike’s friend Joe, Mike’s mom and sister, Wes
• Daily beach trips (requiring permits) and nightly ice cream walks
• Arlington Schneider professional family photo shoot
• Brady’s first Schneiderfest. When interviewed by a third party, Brady called his experience at Schneiderfest ‘interesting’
• First Schneiderfest without an appearance by Grandma

2006 – Cape May, NJ

• Mary is VERY big with … will her name be Rose or Laura?

• Hanging out on the front porch to chat, eat and people watch

• Visits from Josh, Chris, Eve, Evie, Joe, George, Joanne, David and Dawn

• Mark comes to grips with the fact that some of us are bar people

• Walking everywhere, beach. Church. Store, theater, mini-golf, shopping

• Surrey rides through the town, bike rides to sunset beach

• Relaxing at the beach, Joanne happened to have an emergency band-aid, for Marie and a cold beer for Frank and Mark while at the beach.

• Could Mary really have 3 months to go …. She’s SO BIG now!

• Rudy tells Karen not to panic as they look for his special toothpaste

• Marie expresses her concern about being on the beach at 8 PM without a beach tag

• Karen checks out Geneva’s suprapubic area

• Mother, Karen and Mary race to complete Sudoku puzzles

• Frank sweeps Rudy’s bed of sand and other abrasives