Family Vacations: Internationally Grateful Edition.

Me, captured shortly after I last wrote

Guest post by Snydes (Sara)

Hello, world! I'm backkkkkk! Thanks to Pats-a-licious for letting me hijack the blog again.  

I'm so grateful-ish for all of the love, responses, and kind notes that you have given to me via the greatly gratefully and gracious blog on which Patsy inspires us all.  I won't make this long and overdrawn, I'll keep it simple and to the point.

Summer is filled with many a thing: BBQ's, flowery dresses (see picture to your right), and most importantly, family vacations.  As Tom and Katie Holmes' marriage comes to an end, it's important to reflect on the meaning of family...we all know that Suri Cruise, despite the dysfunction her parents must inflict on her, will likely turn out semi-normal, much like myself.  

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Clark Griswold and the fam

But anyway, back to family vacations.

I just returned home from an amazing 12 day trip to Israel with 13 members of my family.  In addition to the Snyder gang, we also were traveling with 275 of our nearest and dearest fellow Pittsburghers on an organized trip that toured us day and night all throughout Israel.  Essentially, imagine your favorite National Lampoons' movie family, the Griswolds, and multiply the insanity by 1000, and BAM, there you've got it - that's my family vacation in a nutshell.

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Being that I'm still completely jet-lagged and haven't had the proper amount of time/sleep to comprehend all of the amazing things that I felt & saw & heard on this trip, I'll take you all on a photo safari (or whatever the equivalent Israeli version of such a thing is) of our family vacation. Hopefully, if this blog does nothing else, it helps make you all salivate in jealousy that I ate hummus for 3 meals each day for 12 days and you didn't. The End.

Jetlag perk: Seeing the sunrise in Tel Aviv

A spoonful of [hummus] helps the medicine go down?

Just your usual Thursday afternoon Flashmob in the streets of Israel

Notes in the Western Wall

Family style family dinner

Floatin' in the dead sea

Peace in the middle east - l'chaim!