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For the second year in a row, we packed up the green bullet, got the kids situated, and drove out to California while they slept. We spent a week with our good friends the Bramhalls, during which we had a wonderful time with our two families together.

There are (of course) a bunch of photos in the gallery, mostly of the time we spent hiking and at the beach. Silly us, we forgot to bring our cameras to Legoland.

One of the high points for me, and certainly the best New Year’s Eve I’d had in a while, was an opportunity to see the Flaming Lips perform live in downtown Los Angeles. There’s nothing quite like watching Wayne Coyne count down to the new year, followed by an explosion of sound, music, and balloons quite unlike anything I’ve ever seen.

I found this review of the concert we attended, which sums it up pretty nicely.

This doesn’t quite do it justice, but you can get an idea of what it was like from the video below. (I didn’t take this video. I just found it on You Tube.)