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"The Antigua pics being different than the story was an accident," said Larson of Charlotte, North Carolina. "I wish I had pics of the (possibly human) bone fragment (I found on the beach), the cop giving me a hard time when I reported it, the giant storm that flooded St. John's and stranded me there for hours while my spouse thought I'd been kidnapped for ransom, and on and on."
It might have been the holiday from hell, but it seems that any trip can be turned in to a great story with wonderful pics. Inspired by the true tales behind picture-perfect pics, they asked CNN's iReporters to share their dream holiday pics and the actual tales behind them.  everyone had wonderful and sometimes horrific tales that the camera didn't catch.


Donna Henderson, another iReporter, had hoped for lovely times together with her sister in the work of a three-week holiday through Iceland, Scotland, France, the Netherlands & Spain. Her aunt joined them for part of the trip.
It didn't go as planned. Less than a week after they arrived, her sister got a cough that turned in to a viral chest infection. A few days later, her aunt had a heart assault. Henderson began to feel sick the next day & visited a hospital emergency room to make positive he was OK. The special night out he planned for her mother's birthday, including a dinner cruise down the Seine River? They didn't make it.

While pics usually gloss over the back story, they are great for calling up those cherished, if not picture-perfect, relatives memories.
Seattle iReporter Jim McClure & his spouse recently scanned a collection of relatives camping trip pics from twenty years ago to generate picture books for their grown children, now 24 & 28. Looking through pics of the Canadian & Colorado Rockies, the Badlands, the Oregon & Washington coasts & the San Juan Islands sparked plenty of memories not documented in the collection.
McClure can clearly keep in mind his daughter, "at age five sitting, arms folded & crying because he was having difficulty setting up her tent, or the moose that would not let me out of the campground shower building for several minutes."