My extended family tries to gather once a year. I introduced them when I wrote this blog.. Fruits & Nuts & Flakes 
Sometimes we gather for an occasion and sometimes just for fun. This year it was just for fun and while not everyone got to make it (my cousin’s 14 year old is training or in [I don’t know which] the Junior Olympics in Water Polo and so they couldn’t attend on the day picked.)
My cousin from Utah and his wife flew down (which they try to do every year) when we hold these things. And my sister & her family drove up from San Diego. But everyone else is local. Well, relatively local. Reseda, Topanga Canyon, Burbank, Glendale, Santa Monica.. we all traveled a bit to gather in Marina Del Rey.
(All these towns are in Los Angeles area but that is a HUGE metropolis and Sunday traffic can take a point which is technically only 30 miles away and turn it into an hours drive… for those of you who are out of town readers. [Readers!?! You have readers?] { Shut up, you.} )
Ahem.
So this time I had the wild idea of using the event as an opportunity for Sex God to meet “My Family” (don, don, doooooohhhhnnnnn!) hee hee. My logic was it would be easier on him to meet ALL of them at once, thereby ensuring he doesn’t end up being grilled by one person for longer than 10 minutes or so… than to meet say my father for an hour over dinner! He got to do that with my mother at the San Diego conference. (I have no idea what she thinks of him, I haven’t had the courage to ask!)
Sex God agreed to go but also got roped into watching his kids for the weekend as his Ex got a date. Hurray for her! But this meant he brought his daughter. Which was fine cuz she’s a teenager, but he did end up spending a lot of time with her in the pool entertaining her. Which I knew would happen.
I introduced him where I could here and there. I didn’t want to drag him around and swamp him with names. I’d just point him out and if we happen to be together in space I’d introduce him to a relative. Although not everyone was a relative, lol. Some were family friends who come to these forever!
He did get to meet my Dad and his wife. My sister and her husband, plus my brother and his wife. My cousin Stephanie spent many minutes talking with him and she later told me that I’d really lucked out and found a really great guy. I told her WHERE I’d met him and she said, “Sexy AND kinky! You hit the jackpot!” Which I found particularly amusing cuz Sex God had told me earlier “that guy over there is the coolest guy here” and pointed to her husband Miguel!
And yes, that’s Stephanie & Miguel from THIS blog posting! lol Stephanies\’ Wedding
I chatted up my other cousin’s daughter, who has Coachella tix this year. She’s a reader like me and I gave her several authors to check out. Plus we agreed that we love Jimmy Eat World even though he sucks live! I turned her on to my system of winning contests at 98.7 Rockaholic Rewards. But you usually have to be 18 years at least, I think, and she’s in her last year of high school @ 17. A very hot, pink-haired 17! lol
It was fun getting compliments on how cute Sex God is from my family and I let slip his nickname to my fellow hedonistic cousins. hee hee. After all, they ARE related to me, even if I’m the wildest in the bunch!