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The Dolds take over LA

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The best trip of my life?  I think so.  I've traveled quite a bit and seen some amazing places, but for some reason this was the best trip of my life.  Thirteen of Marcy and Ernie's Dold clan went to see Brynn (so total, with Brynn, we had 14 of 17 Dolds) for almost a week in March.  We stayed together in a huge VRBO in Venice and watched Brynn run the 800m at USC.  We played in the ocean, saw friends (Lisa Brisse) and family (Jenna Schroeder).  We drove a 15 passenger van, sang songs all day long, and bought too many remote control cars for Ben. We saw a Gopher baseball game in Long Beach, went for runs along the ocean and saw Muscle Beach, and rode the Ferris Wheel at Santa Monica Pier (and discovered the end of the famous Route 66).  We spotted the Hollywood sign over and over again (we had to make sure Ben really did see it) and counted over 100 sports performance cars (well, Ben did).  We learned a lot about WWII from Luke on the van rides, taught Jon how to improve