My Favorite Cousin

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I flew down to Los Angeles on Saturday for a family party. My Aunt Terri is moving back to New York and I wanted to say goodbye. There was a gathering at my cousin Bernie's house in Fontana, so I flew into Ontario airport. I managed to get a front row seat, so I was first off the plane. I'm not familiar with Ontario airport as I usually fly in and out of Burbank and occasionally LAX so I took a wrong turn looking for the rental car shuttles. Because of that, I missed a few buses before I got to the rental center. Which was a good thing. I had booked a compact car and when I got out to the lot, somebody was driving off with the last compact, and another person was driving off with the last mid-size. So the nice lady on the lot told me to take a full size. Once I figured out how to start the thing (no key, put foot on brake and push start button - it was the put foot on brake part that escaped me), it was less than a 10 mile drive, so the car was kind of wasted on me. Oh well! Got to Bernie's and Aunt Terri was there with her son Richard, daughter Glenna and Richard's daughter Cass. My Aunt Sylvia and Uncle Jack were there also. In addition to Bernie, her husband and four kids, two of Sylvia's other kids showed up with their families, Andres and Brande. They were the last set of twins in the family until I had my twins. I had a good day with the family, but was sorry I wasn't able to bring my family with me. I took a lot of pictures though, which you can see at: http://rddcn.multiply.com/photos/album/234/I_was_there_where_were_you_Party_at_Bernies... Brande's son Jack was doing the shy routing when they first got there. So I did the hand spider thing and pretty soon he was out of his shell and bashing and smashing the hand spider with his fist. (ouch) The funniest moment was when Cass was picking on Aunt Sylvia because she's "so old". So I said, "hey she's not that much older than I am." And Cass says, "But she's 57." "Yep and I'm less than 6 years younger than her!" Shocked expression. "Wow, I thought you were in your 30's." Kid knows how to melt a person's heart. She is now my favorite cousin. The New York cousins still owe me a visit though. They never did get to Sacramento. Now that their mom doesn't live in California any more, I wonder if it will really happen. But hey, Glenna's talking about a New York reunion and I do want to get the kids back there and South Carolina to meet people. So watch out Holly, I may actually get to meet you in person!