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SAN DIEGO – A family vacationing in San Diego County was stunned when they checked into their Airbnb rental and discovered what they believed was a large photo of themselves hanging on the wall.<\/p>\n
Video recorded by Aubrey Birrell captured the family’s astonished reaction as she and her sister pointed out familiar faces in the framed beach photograph.<\/p>\n
San Diego Airbnb photo discovery <\/p>\n
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According to Birrell, the discovery happened shortly after the family arrived at the rental.<\/p>\n
“We arrived at the Airbnb. On the fifth floor, across from my room, was a picture of the beach. My dad jokes, saying, ‘If I were in the painting, I’d be this person,’ as he pointed to himself,” Birrell told video licensing company Storyful.<\/p>\n
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A family’s San Diego Airbnb stay took an unexpected turn after they say they spotted themselves in a beach photo displayed inside the rental. On the left, above, is Libby Birrell; on the right are members of the family, they say. (Credit: Aubrey Birr <\/p>\n
But the joke quickly turned into disbelief.<\/p>\n
“That was my dad, my sister, Libby, and my brother Brady,” she said. “We could tell the swimsuits were theirs, and it was truly them! We could even place when the picture was taken!”<\/p>\n
RELATED: Treasure hunters recover rare silver bar from legendary shipwreck off Florida Keys<\/a><\/p>\n Birrell said the family was left stunned by the unexpected discovery and remains puzzled about how the image ended up displayed in the vacation rental.<\/p>\n “I could not believe it,” she said. “Insane that it was in our Airbnb. I would love to know who or how someone got that picture.”<\/p>\n The Source: This story was reported from Los Angeles. Storyful contributed.<\/p>\n Travel<\/a>California<\/a>U.S.<\/a>Travel News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO – A family vacationing in San Diego County was stunned when they checked into their Airbnb…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1184,971,100,74,76,75,2422,7567,1181],"class_list":["post-401909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-ca","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-travel","tag-travel-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}