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Awkward Family Photos: Vacation 2011 Edition

Posted: 07/13/11 09:24 AM ET
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It all starts with the best of intentions. Mom and Dad, feeling that the family needs to spend more time together, decide that we should take a vacation ... but between the itineraries, the sunburns, and the sing-alongs, the only thing relaxing about a family vacation is when we finally make it home.

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It all starts with the best of intentions. Mom and Dad, feeling that the family needs to spend more time together, decide that we should take a vacation ... but between the itineraries, the sunburns, ...
It all starts with the best of intentions. Mom and Dad, feeling that the family needs to spend more time together, decide that we should take a vacation ... but between the itineraries, the sunburns, ...
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emncaity
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03:53 PM on 07/26/2011
Robes, man.
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stkeamza2
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10:31 PM on 07/15/2011
Damn, I'd have to go into hiding and change my name if I was in any of those. Those are horrible (but funny as hell)
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awesomeman14
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02:07 PM on 07/15/2011
whose Driven !!!!!!!!!
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cadubois4
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01:50 PM on 07/15/2011
I am the girl wielding the inflatable alligator in #5!
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opmik75
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12:47 PM on 07/15/2011
AWKWARD FAMILY PHOTOS! How I love and fear you at the same time.

I love that you've made me crack me up over the years. I fear my family will be on your site someday.
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braunstonegreasr
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12:24 PM on 07/15/2011
Actually the plane one is pretty cool!
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UexkullianDream
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11:04 AM on 07/15/2011
#11...the girl wore a teenage mutant ninja turtle shirt (green) in front of a green screen for making it look like the family is somewhere they are not...so it looks like her head and arms are popping out of the background.
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mebemommee06
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11:01 AM on 07/15/2011
my sister, mom and I had a picture of the barrel over the falls picture done too.. i actually thought the idea was stupid, but got roped into it anyway.. but the bus trip was great and the Niagra Falls are really beautiful!
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WillCooney
Democrat dagnabit! Now leave me alone!
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04:37 PM on 07/15/2011
Oscar Wilde noted that "Niagra Falls was an American bride's second biggest disappointment!"
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kerriberri
Let's Obviate Obfuscation!
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07:35 PM on 07/16/2011
Zing! F&F.

Another favorite from Wilde:
“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.†I'm often reminded of that one as I read some of these posts : )
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laserbob
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06:26 PM on 09/08/2011
I grew up about 6 blocks from that museum next to the Rainbow Bridge where the
barrel photo was taken. I used to hang around there when I was about 8 or so to
watch all the tourists doing the posing for the camera. Niagara in the 60's-70's
was like Vegas on acid, without the gambling. drinking, or entertainment.
Which kinda explains the barrel pictures..
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Mort Adela
Was a trapeze artist. Until I got dropped.
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08:39 AM on 07/15/2011
# 5 Brought me back to the days when Dad would put on his speedo and we'd head down to the old swimmin' hole to spend the day bashing each other over the head with a blow-up alligator. Ah, the memories.
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cadubois4
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01:47 PM on 07/15/2011
#5 is my family on vacation at Lake Winnipeg circa 1989..I am the little girl hitting her brother over the head with the alligator ;-)
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Vedet
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05:48 AM on 07/15/2011
That's my dad in picture 3!!!!
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JediGoddess
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04:25 AM on 07/15/2011
Blown Away had me in stitches
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emncaity
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04:02 AM on 07/15/2011
By the way, I would like to speak to one, and possibly two or maybe even three, of those sunbathers. Just kind of a "Hey, how ya doin', come here in a robe often?" kinda thing.
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Jennifer Jane Di Modica
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10:01 PM on 07/14/2011
Besides from making me LOL, #11 scares me.. She appears transparent...
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TKI
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04:03 AM on 07/15/2011
That was just a ghost
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mebemommee06
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11:05 AM on 07/15/2011
look again.. she's standing behind the guardrail and its a picture behind them..
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cjodan38
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08:05 PM on 07/14/2011
LOL
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AprilCJackson
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07:55 PM on 07/14/2011
These pictures are too funyy, I so needed a laugh right now.
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