Arrival in Florida and family pics
Nov. 20th, 2018 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glacier_kittyOn Sunday night we got on the first flight to Seattle..I just wanted to sleep, but this baby in the row next to me wouldn't stop crying!! He eventually quieted down, but every time he woke up he started crying..ughh. The lady next to mom REEKED of smoke..she did have a cat though, which we got to pet hehe. We arrived in Seattle at 4 something, ew..I couldn't believe how many people were awake at that hour lol. We had a couple hours there..I got a vanilla bean frappuccino at Starbucks, which tasted like a vanilla milkshake, yum! We left Seattle at 7 something, and I drooled at Mt. Rainier, St. Helens, Adams and all the rest in the sun lol. I watched Tangled (finally!) and Happy Feet (because..Cherry? Haha) too. Around 5 hours later, we arrived in Tampa..grandpa picked us up and drove us the 80 miles back to his house (thanks!). Mom and I were so tired lol..I felt like time had been stolen from us after going through multiple time zones haha. After dinner grandpa got his genealogy file out, and I finally got to see that my research was all correct, right up to John Hopkins of Hartford!!! OMG so happy lol. There were a bunch of copies of some Day Book that was in the family for over 150 years, but grandpa doesn't know what happened to it. I hope there is more than one book, or somehow it can be found, because that's the proof I need to become a member of the Mayflower Society! Grandpa also showed me old family pics..his parents, grandparents, etc..I love being able to put faces to names and I'm excited to share them here! Going to bed was awesome, and slept very well. :P Teresa and Ron and Stephanie arrive tomorrow, yay!
Before the family pics, a new Cherry sighting!!!
I've seen this pic before, but this one was big enough to spot Cherry, holding his glasses! (That's a total giveaway. :P) Aww yay, look at him shyly peeking out hehe <3
Mt. Rainier in the sunrise..gorgeous <3
I'm not positive, but the mountain behind Rainier might be Adams
Younger grandpa..handsome!
Younger mom..she looks like my high school friend Wendy!
Ooo, I don't remember this picture! We must have been in Maine or somewhere near there
I think the top left pic is Elsie, grandpa's mom and my great-grandma (I called her Nana), with grandpa..not sure who the other lady is. To the right of that one, me and my brother with Nana. The one below that is mom and Aunt Cindy, and there are two others of me and Ryan..the bottom left one is so fun!
Grandpa's parents: my great-grandfather, Earl Hawley Hopkins (he died before I was born) and Elsie (Lundberg) Hopkins, my great-grandmother. I can't wait to add these pics to my family tree on My Heritage!
Young Elsie
Elsie (not sure two the other two people are) at the buffalo farm in Wisconsin! I recognized the setting right away :D (I love that place!)
Elsie's parents: my great-great-grandma Johanna Christina (Johnsson) Lundberg and my great-great grandfather Adolf Sanfrid Lundberg (that's an older pic of Christina to the right of him). Both of them were from Sweden
The lady on the left is Earl's mother and my great-great grandmother Floretta (Hawley) Hopkins. To the left of her is grandpa's half brother, the kid is grandpa, and Earl is to the right
John Henry Sanfried Lundberg, my great-great uncle, who worked on the Empire State Building and is in that famous pic of workers sitting on one of the beams (grandpa has that picture hanging up in his office lol). He's in this one as well, third from left!
Cooool :D
November 19 - If you could only watch one TV show for the rest of your life, which would it be? Ummm..I'm not sure! Maybe Game of Thrones?
November 20 - If you could only watch one movie for the rest of your life, which would it be? Does The Worst Journey in the World count? Haha
Before the family pics, a new Cherry sighting!!!
I've seen this pic before, but this one was big enough to spot Cherry, holding his glasses! (That's a total giveaway. :P) Aww yay, look at him shyly peeking out hehe <3
Mt. Rainier in the sunrise..gorgeous <3
I'm not positive, but the mountain behind Rainier might be Adams
Younger grandpa..handsome!
Younger mom..she looks like my high school friend Wendy!
Ooo, I don't remember this picture! We must have been in Maine or somewhere near there
I think the top left pic is Elsie, grandpa's mom and my great-grandma (I called her Nana), with grandpa..not sure who the other lady is. To the right of that one, me and my brother with Nana. The one below that is mom and Aunt Cindy, and there are two others of me and Ryan..the bottom left one is so fun!
Grandpa's parents: my great-grandfather, Earl Hawley Hopkins (he died before I was born) and Elsie (Lundberg) Hopkins, my great-grandmother. I can't wait to add these pics to my family tree on My Heritage!
Young Elsie
Elsie (not sure two the other two people are) at the buffalo farm in Wisconsin! I recognized the setting right away :D (I love that place!)
Elsie's parents: my great-great-grandma Johanna Christina (Johnsson) Lundberg and my great-great grandfather Adolf Sanfrid Lundberg (that's an older pic of Christina to the right of him). Both of them were from Sweden
The lady on the left is Earl's mother and my great-great grandmother Floretta (Hawley) Hopkins. To the left of her is grandpa's half brother, the kid is grandpa, and Earl is to the right
John Henry Sanfried Lundberg, my great-great uncle, who worked on the Empire State Building and is in that famous pic of workers sitting on one of the beams (grandpa has that picture hanging up in his office lol). He's in this one as well, third from left!
Cooool :D
November 19 - If you could only watch one TV show for the rest of your life, which would it be? Ummm..I'm not sure! Maybe Game of Thrones?
November 20 - If you could only watch one movie for the rest of your life, which would it be? Does The Worst Journey in the World count? Haha
