Saturday morning began with a few flash reflection pictures before I remembered that you only get pictures like these of the Oakland scene by turning off the flash when shooting through a window. We went down to the restaurant where this mural almost woke up Jane though it didn't keep Sarah's brains from draining out to make room for new knowledge. Ben's menu convinced him that I should have coffee as the girls had orange juice and the chef got to work making the bagel for Jane the pancakes for Ben and the oatmeals for Sarah and me with sizeable brown sugar that Sarah washed down with her hot chocolate. Sarah and Jane were ready to go so we thanked the chef and the waiter and headed upstairs where Benjamin tied his shoes as I recorded the room rates and the views from across the hall as Benjamin and I decided to get the car and pick up the others by the door so we could drive by the Cathedral on our way to the synagogue where Katy was the main event of the day.

When we returned, Sarah felt that it was important to record that this was a Holiday Inn Select and not just a Holiday Inn. Somehow in the process of doing all this, the P setting on my camera was set causing a lot of photos to come out Pretty bad. I guess this is what P means. Suzanne didn't realize that the camera was creating a mess as she also posed with her girls. The elevator pictures were especially bad and Stan seemed in a rush as he took a picture like this one while Robert arrived. We made our way through the crowd recording Suzanne and friends Sarah Stan and Ann someone's wine glass mother and daughter and some other blurries before setting the camera in a happier state to sit down and admire the table settings and balloon decorations as Sally offered her toast and my salad arrived to the dancing of the Chatham girls as the photographer returned to take my picture and my main course and Suzanne's arrived.

At this point, it was time to take pictures of people who went to John Minadeo School ( after all he gave his life so that others might live ) and Sam obliging did so as my dessert arrived so that i could record my table place card to the sheer terror of Jane though her spirits were lifted when Benjamin appeared and they saw the diet coke I was about to drink. Sam did the T shirt and tie thing and then joined Jane and Benjamin for a group photo as the hula hoop contest continued while Ben's dessert didn't get finished because he was watching and the folks at Sarah's table looked like conversation was equivalent to torture. All this activity convinced Dick Dunhoff to train Sam and set him loose with the camera to record the event. Not to be outdone, I captured Ben then Dan and Suzanne and the dancers before heading to the bathroom with Ben. Fortunately this sign told us how to get back so that we didn't have to mail ourselves back even over night would have been too slow. We got back in time for the hora

which really amused Suzanne, Sarah and Jane and brought Benjamin to the floor to regroup. Suzanne was like a glowing beacon in the darkness as the girls talked to relatives Suzanne and Benjamin had a laugh together and the crowd continued to do the Bat Mitzvah thing as yet another dance began and Dick Dunhoff gathered the crowds to elevate Katy while Suzanne, Norma and Sally watched and Sarah and Jane sat on the sidelines hoping that their matriarchs would enjoy this conversation to Milt's amusement. The kids got good seats Suzanne and Norma were ready Dolly was talking to her grand daughter and friend and Katy was having one last dance as they got ready for the limbo contest. She made it to the amusement of George and his brother and Sarah, Jane and Benjamin as the line formed and the contest continued Next thing, we knew it was the macarena

the one dance we never miss. This excited Sam who took an arm picture before we said good bye to him and headed off from a very successful party.

Next stop was Shadyside to get my new winter coat from these guys and their friend who forgot to be in the first picture but was happy with the way I looked. She sold us these postcards so Jane could record vacation memories to send to her friends.

Saturday night, we reassembled at Andy's house where Ben had this sandwich and Sarah had this one as Milt and Stan chatted away and Dolly pondered her lost ear ring. Norma and Sally and Ann and Suzanne were probably wondering why Jane was laughing as the fire slowed down and Ben was amused by his ability to block the photo but I caught him on the third try. The women chatted as we caught this facial closeup and this blur before Milt welcomed Danny to the room at which point Jane decided to take some artistic (ie black and white) pictures of the books and the plant and the collection of chair pictures as the fire came back and Andy did the scraping of cheese that Karen claimed was beyond her worldly skills though George seemed to not believe this. The dark pictures were illuminated by the host and hostess and a rejuvenated fire as the party rolled on with balloons and conversation so we recorded the pony tail and braid in Sarah's hair as Dolly Milt and Ann watched. Needless to say, this amused Sarah so we took some people pictures of Ann and Suzanne Robert and Debbie and David and Norma while the birds had a moment's peace and the food remained. In the back room, Andy and Ben were on the computer as Milt and Jane watched and we saved Sam's Nintendo game to the amusement of the birds who felt we should take one last frog shirt picture before calling it a night. When we got back to the hotel, we needed to record the Impala taxi for Claire, so she could know that a job awaited her on graduation. After the elevator picture we all called it a day.