tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6586994916152110982024-02-02T02:43:01.952-06:00Alvis Adventures... notes to myself and to our families, who live on the other side of the world.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger436125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658699491615211098.post-1207870194144093722023-01-14T21:16:00.001-06:002023-01-14T21:16:50.722-06:0010 UnBelizeable Things about Belize<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Belize surprised me. Being in Central America, I assumed that it would be a Spanish-speaking country. Since most of our travels in the last three years have been in Europe, I had forgotten what travel outside of a wealthy country looked like. Here are the top 10 things that I learned in Belize.</span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1. Belize is a tiny country, but a very ethnically diverse one. The population of 380,000 is a mix of Mayans (and other indigenous groups), Africans (descendants from the slave trade - people who were brought to Belize to support the logging trade), German-speaking Mennonites (traditional and progressive) (who produce 70% of the agricultural products) as well as Asians - primarily Chinese - who operate nearly all of the grocery stores.</span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2. If you hail a taxi, expect to pay a per-person rate, not a per-mile rate. There are no meters, so you have to agree on a rate before you get in. There is only one company that makes the trip from the water taxi port to the airport (about a 15-minute ride). The going rate is $25 for two people and an additional $5 per extra body. You can identify a taxi by the green license plates.</span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">3. No need to exchange your money. Everyone happily takes US Dollars. There is a set exchange rate of 2:1, so a meal listed as $20 BZE will cost you $10 USD. You may get change in either currency. ATMs dispense only Belizean currency.</span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">4. They really don't have beaches. They have gorgeous water and a multitude of water activities, but if you are picturing yourself throwing your towel on the sand and wandering down to the sea, you'll only have a very small number of options along the coastline. Seaweed clogs much of the waterfront, so piers are the preferred entry method. Secret Beach, north of San Pedro, is the closest you'll get to a traditional beach, but it's so developed that you should expect to camp out on a restaurant's chairs and be pressured to order drinks and food in exchange.</span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">5. There are crocodiles. Much of the waterfront property in the country borders lagoons. </span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">6. They have the second-largest barrier reef in the world. It has suffered bleaching from global warming, but it is still incredible.</span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">7. The schools are all run by churches, with state funding for teachers' salaries.</span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">8. Belize is part of the Commonwealth - English is the official language, measurements are in miles and temperature is in Fahrenheit. Belize won its independence from Britain in 1981. The electricity is 110v and the plugs are American style. They drive on the right side of the road, however.</span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">9. Guatemala claims ownership and the claim was just taken to the international courts in May 2019.</span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">10. Despite a healthy tourism trade, Belize is a poor country. As we drove around the country and the cities I would estimate that the average, middle-class American family would be happy to live in only about 10% of the housing. The housing consisted largely of tiny wooden or concrete block homes. Many were elevated to avoid flooding during the rainy/hurricane season. Belize has been ranked as the 3rd or 6th highest murder rate per capita in the past ten years. Most of the crime happens between rival gangs in Belize City. We chose to see almost everything that we saw in Belize City from the safety of a van.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658699491615211098.post-84471904282527539412023-01-14T14:49:00.001-06:002023-01-14T20:48:11.950-06:00Oh, the places we've been!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkNR_Ji_uATxQkJ_t3DFh0P4jsDGuMKupyT8c7R6yxwiEF21ulOvRdX5IzWfoa2V5efgWH5w7x1W9hwdgt0iWLSwPMxKkA74hfsi4B_ILe4qK2_KR_TKOS9e9LbR_Ih4p5pYCVOzJliFdyXEw24DTYVTiMu52sRCWjau-CmVoBHtdqtX77gWb16S2vJw/s3876/FullSizeRender.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2384" data-original-width="3876" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkNR_Ji_uATxQkJ_t3DFh0P4jsDGuMKupyT8c7R6yxwiEF21ulOvRdX5IzWfoa2V5efgWH5w7x1W9hwdgt0iWLSwPMxKkA74hfsi4B_ILe4qK2_KR_TKOS9e9LbR_Ih4p5pYCVOzJliFdyXEw24DTYVTiMu52sRCWjau-CmVoBHtdqtX77gWb16S2vJw/w400-h246/FullSizeRender.HEIC" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">I was 13 when I left Alaska for the first time and 18 when I left the U.S. for a visit to Mexico. I needed a passport for the first time when I was 22 and took my first international flight to join Jason in Turkey. Every once in a while when I'm feeling braggy or someone happens to ask, I wish that I could remember how many countries I have visited. Here's a list for my future reference:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div>
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NORTH AMERICA:</div>
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<b>1. U.S.A.</b></div>
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2. Mexico (1996)</div>
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3. Canada (1998)<br />
4. The Bahamas<br />
5. Belize (May 2019)<br />
6. Guatamala (May 2019)</div>
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ASIA:</div>
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<b>7. South Korea </b>(June 2010)</div>
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8. North Korea (as part of the DMZ)</div>
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9. Thailand</div>
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9 1/2. Guam</div>
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10. Cambodia</div>
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11. China<br />
12. Singapore (May 2015)<br />
13. Malaysia (May 2015)<br />
14. Japan (December 2016)</div>
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MIDDLE EAST:<br />
15. United Arab Emirates (May 2015)</div>
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AUSTRALIA:</div>
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<b>16. Australia </b>(all six states and both territories)</div>
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17. New Zealand (North and South Islands)</div>
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AFRICA:<br />
18. Morocco (February 2016)<br />
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EUROPE:</div>
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<b>19. Germany </b>(March 2003)</div>
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20. Netherlands (2003)</div>
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21. Luxembourg</div>
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22. France (2005? and 2016)</div>
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23. Switzerland</div>
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24. Austria (2003? and 2016)</div>
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25. Czech Republic (2004)</div>
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<b>26. Italy</b></div>
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27. Turkey (June 2002)</div>
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28. Norway</div>
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29. England (2005? and December 2016)</div>
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30. Scotland (technically the same country as England, but I'm counting it) (2005? & April 2017)</div>
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31. Ireland (August 2006)<br />
32. Slovenia (June 2015/June 2016)<br />
33. Belgium (September 2015)<br />
34. The Vatican (early November 2015/June 2016)</div>
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35. Romania (late November 2015)<br />
36. Bulgaria (late November 2015)<br />
37. Spain (December 2015)<br />
38. Andorra (December 2015)<br />
39. Malta (January 2016)<br />
40. Hungary (April 2016)<br />
41. Slovakia (April 2016)<br />
42. Croatia (July 2016)<br />
43. Bosnia and Herzegovina (July 2016)<br />
44. Liechtenstein (August 2016)<br />
45. San Marino (August 2016)<br />
46. Denmark (Sept 2016)<br />
47. Sweden (Sept 2016)<br />
48. Monaco (November 2016)<br />
49. Portugal (January 2017)<br />
50. Greece (February 2017)<br />
51. Poland (March/April 2017)<br />
52. Estonia (July 2017)<br />
53. Russia (July 2017)<br />
54. Finland (July 2017)</div><div><br /></div><div>SOUTH AMERICA:</div><div>55. Chile (December 2022)</div><div>56. Argentina (December/January 2023)</div><div>57. Uruguay (January 2023)</div><div><br /></div><div>ANTARCTICA:</div><div>58. Elephant Island, Admiralty Bay, Deception Island, Neumayer Channel, Paradise Bay, Charlotte Bay, Wilhelmina Bay (December 26 - 30, 2022)<br />
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Israel</div>
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Iceland<br />
Montenegro<br />
Albania<br />
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Anywhere in South America</strike></div><div><strike><br /></strike></div><div>Top 5 Places that I would love to return to:</div><div>1. New Zealand</div><div>2. Thailand</div><div>3. Switzerland</div><div>4. Chile</div><div>5. Singapore</div><div>
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My goal was to visit 40 countries by the time I turned 40. Check!!</div>
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Jason's list also includes the following exotic locales:</div>
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Iraq</div>
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Kuwait</div>
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4. Oregon</div>
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5. Nevada (with the kid - March 18)</div>
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6. California</div>
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7. Montana</div>
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8. North Dakota</div>
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9. South Dakota</div>
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10. Nebraska</div>
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<b>11. Kansas</b></div>
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12. Oklahoma</div>
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13. Texas</div>
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<b>14. Wyoming </b>(two summers of summer school for my Master's degree)</div>
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<b>15. Colorado </b>(with the kids - December 17 and March 18)</div>
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16. Minnesota</div>
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17. Wisconsin</div>
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18. Michigan</div>
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<b>19. Idaho</b></div>
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20. Iowa</div>
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21. Missouri</div>
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22. Illinois</div>
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23. Indiana</div>
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24. Tennessee</div>
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26. Kentucky</div>
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27. North Carolina</div>
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28. South Carolina</div>
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29. Florida</div>
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30. Maryland</div>
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30 1/2. D.C.</div>
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31. New York</div>
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32. New Hampshire</div>
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33. Rhode Island</div>
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34. Massachusetts</div>
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35. Pennsylvania</div>
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36. Arizona (with the kids - March 18)</div>
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37. Utah (with the kids - March 18)</div>
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38. New Mexico<br />
39. Tennessee<br />
40. Georgia<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The guide took us and another couple into a smallish screened-in enclosure to meet the iguanas. There were about 25 iguanas roaming around. They didn't look particularly cuddly, but that didn't stop the Alvis children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most of the iguanas will be released back into the wild. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The guide told us that for 35 USD we could "adopt" an iguana. The money would go towards medical care, the adopter would get to name the iguana and they would send pictures of the iguana periodically. Denali was in. She handed over her cash and provided her email address.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She picked this beautiful creature and named her Tina. Six weeks later she is still waiting on an update...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kids left scratched up, but happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The same awesome driver who picked us up at the airport drove us back to Belize City. I snapped this picture of a very typical Belizean home. The vast majority of the homes were this size and many were on stilts. I'm not sure why, but I wasn't expecting Belize to be as poor as it was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I always find burial traditions to be fascinating. Our driver told us that in Belize people aren't buried, but instead are interred in concrete boxes above ground. Relatives who die later are stacked above them, apartment-style.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Belize City is widely regarded as unsafe due to a high murder rate (mostly gang-related). It's not all that attractive, either, so we were happy to take a quick van tour on our way to the port.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I took pictures of all of the buildings that I recognized as important from the blogs that I had read before the trip. This one is the Supreme Court.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">St John's Cathedral. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Cathedral Church of St. John the Baptist is the primary cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Belize. Based in Belize City, Belize, and built from 1812 to 1820 with bricks that had been used as ballast aboard ships, it was the first church to be built in the colony of British Honduras.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Belize City has a cool swinging bridge. I only got this not so great picture as we zipped across it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's always a risk to hand off your camera to a picture that you want "just so." I had to redirect our driver a few times, and he didn't quite space the picture like I would have, but I got my family picture with the famous Belize sign, so I was happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Baron Bliss lighthouse was <span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-size: 16px;">at the entrance to Belize Harbor on the tip of Fort George Point. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #323232;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It was designed and funded by one of the country's greatest benefactors, Baron Henry Edward Ernest Victor Bliss. The English nobleman never actually set foot on the Belizean mainland, though in his yacht he visited the waters offshore. In his will he bequeathed most of his fortune to the people of Belize, and the date of his death, March 9, is celebrated as a national holiday, now officially called National Heroes and Benefactors Day. Bliss is buried here, in a small, low mausoleum perched on the seawall.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We made a stop at Caye Caulker on the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a three-bedroom, airconditioned Airbnb condo reserved in San Pedro. It was nice to have a cool space to spread out in for our final stretch in Belize.</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-658699491615211098.post-8374360758646170512019-05-27T15:16:00.000-05:002019-07-17T15:17:41.014-05:00Belize! Day 3: Guatamala - Tikal Ruins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSNtVhtlUbNLZPB23cGj5lC0Lin6ESmIuCVJvS1yT1osctv22xs-U9S6nRrJ_e571_DlFir2UJOmF1YipSQgBkbwgmpAuZDeH5Jpiu2ogTcbMMekbIkkGTjcGxt80IcE_t90drcGQb2zKY/s1600/20190527113914_IMG_2258.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSNtVhtlUbNLZPB23cGj5lC0Lin6ESmIuCVJvS1yT1osctv22xs-U9S6nRrJ_e571_DlFir2UJOmF1YipSQgBkbwgmpAuZDeH5Jpiu2ogTcbMMekbIkkGTjcGxt80IcE_t90drcGQb2zKY/s640/20190527113914_IMG_2258.JPG" width="640" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day three began with another pick-up by another guide at our Airbnb. Today's adventure was to nearby Tikal, Guatemala. While I was researching Mayan ruins in Belize, Tikal kept popping up as the most impressive ruins in the region. Always keen to add another country to the list, we went ahead and booked an all-day tour. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This cool bridge the Hawksworth Bridge, in San Ignacio near where we picked up our tour companions for the day, is the only suspension bridge in Belize. It was brought into the country in 1949 from England and crosses the Macal River.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We waited for a little while for our traveling companions for the day. About two minutes into our introductions, they proudly (it's the only way they know) announced that they were from...TEXAS!!! We settled in for a long day of Texas anecdotes. We were in BELIZE and we were headed to GUATEMALA - no matter, Texas, apparently tops them both. Sigh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our first tour stop of the day was at a roadside gift shop with complimentary Guatemalan coffee. Jason enthusiastically partook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The gift shop had a cool instrument. Eli played a happy tune.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It also had a scale model of Tikal. Whoa. Big.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These ladies were making fresh tortillas. We bought five for a snack. Yum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here we are! I'm pretty sure we followed almost all of those red lines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you want to read about Tikal's history (settled beginning around 900 B.C., most of the temples constructed in the 8th Century and abandoned around the end of the 9th Century) click here: <a href="http://www.tikalnationalpark.org/">http://www.tikalnationalpark.org/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thankfully we had some clouds, but it was still a hot, hot day for hiking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We took trails through the jungle to reach some of the sites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These trees were so cool. They grew fur that was so super soft that I wanted to knit a sweater out of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who can resist a naturally-occurring Tarzan rope? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We climbed every possible monument. They mostly had staircases built behind them so that you weren't climbing on the monuments themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you look closely in Isaac's glasses you can see Eli and me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chillin' at the top with a nice breeze.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isaac and I were the only ones who were up for climbing this final tower on the tour. My legs were shaking afterward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My Garmin says that I climbed 55 sets of stairs and walked 15 miles on this day! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taking a well-deserved break.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sitting pretty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This little raccoon-like creatures, called coatimundis, were all over. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also saw lots of spider monkeys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few of the towers had traces of intricate carvings. This one makes me think of a Lego teddy bear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sign says that the Grand Pyramid was known as the main structure of the Lost World. It stands 105 ft high. This four-sided structure has staircases on all sides. During the Preclassic period, around 300 BC, this pyramid and its squared platform formed an astronomical observation set.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the backside, which hasn't been excavated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It started raining hard at our final It was a very cool, but somewhat strenuous day. Thankfully, there is nothing more refreshing than listening to a monologue about vacation spots in Texas all the way home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a bit of a rough first night. In our room, if we laid very still we could keep from sweating too profusely. The kids weren't so lucky. Their room had a bunk bed with a single on the top for Eli and a double on the bottom, which meant that the bottom didn't get any of the whispery breeze from the ceiling fan. Denali and Isaac elected to spend most of the night in the hammocks, where it was slightly cooler but significantly buggier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Breakfast on the patio. The kitchen didn't have a toaster, so Jason put a pan cover on the burner and it worked pretty well to toast the bagels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our tour guide picked us up at our gate and we enjoyed the beautiful drive through the countryside to the Achtun Tunichil Muknal (ATM) cave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The river was high so we got to do a little 4x4ing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The entrance to the park where we stopped for our guide to pay the entrance fee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Several years ago, so the story goes, a tourist was taking a picture of one of the skulls in the cave and dropped his camera, leaving a large hole in the centuries-old archeological treasure. Cameras have been strictly banned on the entire excursion since then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My colleague had visited Belize a couple of months before me and she said that this tour was the highlight of her trip. I read up on it and asked the kids if they were down for exploring a cave with human remains. Ali wasn't so sure at first, but the boys were all in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We started early to try to beat the crowds. It was our family and a brother and sister from the midwest on our tour. About thirty seconds into the hike we got to the first river crossing (photo below). The water was refreshingly cool on a warm morning. This crossing required swimming. In all, it was about a 45-minute hike through the beautiful jungle to get to the mouth of the cave. We were required to wear helmets with headlamps and to wear or bring socks. We had to swim again to get into the cave. I've snagged other people's photos for show 'n' tell because as much as I wanted (really, really wanted) to sneak my camera in, I didn't.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was the entrance. It required more swimming in beautiful blue-green water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We hiked and swam and climbed through skinny passages:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Helmets had to go through first. Isaac was at an advantage/disadvantage because he was skinnier than everyone else, so he fit nicely between rocks but also shorter, so he had to swim more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Up rocks:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="ATM Cave Belize" height="400" src="https://i1.wp.com/www.ottsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ATM-Cave-Tony-Rath.jpg?zoom=2&w=525&h=788&ssl=1" width="266" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Past one thousand year old pottery, lots of which has been stepped on over the years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="ATM Cave Belize" height="299" src="https://i2.wp.com/www.ottsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ATM-Cave-Belize-3.jpg?zoom=2&w=347&h=260&ssl=1" width="400" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Past skulls (including the one with a camera-shaped hole in it:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="ATM Cave Belize" height="300" src="https://s11337.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ATM-Cave-Belize-2.jpg" width="400" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The biggest attraction lay on a ledge at the top of an aluminum ladder that we had to climb in our sock feet:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meet the Crystal Maiden:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="ATM Cave Belize" src="https://s11337.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ATM-Cave-Belize-7.jpg" /> After spending five minutes admiring her we returned to our shoes and made our way back out the way we came. More swimming, climbing (down this time) and hiking:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can read more about the cave here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a thrilling way to spend a day. Back at the parking lot we were able to take showers and change in a nice shower building and then sit down to a delicious meal prepared by the wife of our tour guide. I'm sure I took pictures...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last May I was on skyscanner.com (my favorite website for scratching my wanderlust itch) and saw that tickets to Ecuador were only $400-something for right after school got out. We already had a trip to Alaska planned at the time, so we didn't go, but I watched the prices on and off all year. I was eager to explore a new country. We really wanted to get to South America so that we could add a new continent too. Since Jason took Christmas and Spring Break off, he could only get a week in May, so I tried to plan a trip that would work. The main reason to go to Ecuador was to check the Galapagos Islands off of the bucket lists. After much consideration and looking at a bunch of options, we decided that eight days wasn't enough time for a trip that far away that would require additional travel once we got there. Tickets to Belize were a decent price and the travel time was much less, so we decided to make that the plan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eli finished his freshman year on Thursday, May 23rd. The other two had a half-day on Friday and I worked a full-day. Our plane left at 6:15am on Saturday. We flew into Miami, had a quick layover and then a two-hour flight to Belize City.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The views flying in were beautiful. The Caribbean Sea and the rivers were a huge draw, so it was fun to get gorgeous views of both on the way in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isaac's fourth-grade teacher loaned him the read-aloud that they didn't have time to finish in class so that he could find out what happened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Our accommodations were in San Ignacio, a two-hour drive inland. The travel options were $40 taxi (taxis charge per person in Belize) from the airport to the bus terminal, and then a three-hour, non-airconditioned public bus (nicknamed the chicken bus because live poultry are frequent passengers) where we may or may not have had seats for an additional $25-$30, followed by a $10 taxi ride to our accommodation, or a private, air-conditioned van with pick-up at the airport and delivery to our Airbnb for $125 with a driver who answered a million questions about the history and demographics of Belize, and who stopped for us to get lunch and then waited for us to explore the Belize zoo for a couple of hours. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a hint... We loved the zoo. It's really not a zoo in the traditional sense. Many of the animals are rescues. All of the animals are native to Belize.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Belize has a wide assortment of weird animals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The tapir is the national animal. He's so sleek, but he has the strangest snout.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The monkeys are always the stars. Belize has spider monkeys and howler monkeys. The spider monkeys showed us all of their best moves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Ceiba tree is the national tree. It figured prominently in Mayan myths. The stalactites in caves were thought to be the roots to this "tree of life." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The Toucan is the national bird. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This naughty one reached out and pulled Ali's hair while she was taking a selfie with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> After the zoo, we drove for another hour and arrived at our Airbnb in San Ignacio. I hadn't read the description very well and had no idea that the place was equipped with only weak ceiling fans and no air-conditioning. The kitchen was an outside one. The hosts met us and tried to open the doors to our rooms, but couldn't get into the second bedroom. They had installed new, barred, locking screen doors because there was no way you could survive the night without letting in the night air, but the lock wouldn't open. Eventually, they removed the bottom screen and gave us a sliding screen instead that had about an equal record of opening vs. falling off the track each time we entered or exited. If was a bit of a rough night, trying to sleep in rooms that stayed in the upper 80s all night while the neighborhood dogs barked late into the night and the roosters took over when the dogs finally dropped in exhaustion sometime in the very early morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had an adventure planned with a 7:15am pick-up time, so it was up-and-at-'em by 6am on Day 2. </span></div>
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We spent the evening with the W family and woke up to three inches of powder so fluffy that a push broom was the perfect snow removal tool.</div>
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After a couple of stops to look for Colorado gear for Ali and a yummy lunch at the Denver Biscuit Company we headed to the Garden of the Gods for some pictures of the garden in snow. The line to get in was insane and a lot of the snow had already melted, so we just took pictures from visitors center and called it a day.</div>
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Such a cool place with so many happy memories. Jason and I rock climbed in the Garden and took lots of visitors, including Grandma Mary for Wrangler's first big outing after we got him as a puppy, when we lived here as newly weds.</div>
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Eli took his drone out for a spin, but it crashed on a nearby hillside and lost connection to his phone. A search party of the A&W boys went out and the youngest W finally spotted it in a rocky patch as the sun was setting. It was a little nerve-wracking.</div>
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After a hearty breakfast, church, a hearty lunch and a round of hugs we headed east.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kids and I got home from our last day of school on Wednesday, December 19th. We finished our packing, loaded the van with a pair of skis, six snowboards, most of the food that we would need for the week (I pre-made and froze several dinners, some desserts and a couple of breakfasts) and all of the rest of our gear and jumped in the van at 9pm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eli drove from 9pm until midnight while I rode shotgun and chatted his ear off to keep him awake and Jason slept in the back. I took over at midnight while Jason slept in the passenger seat and Eli slept in the back. It was rough going. I woke Jason up and had him get an audio book going on my Kindle to keep me alert. I've been a night owl all of my life and 2am doesn't normally phase me, but I hadn't slept well the night before and it had been a very busy week. Thankfully, there is not a dramatic ending to this story, but I only made it to 2am before I had to pull over and turn the wheel over to Jason. He had gotten several hours of intermittent napping and I gratefully drifted off while carried on. I woke up at 6am as we pulled in the Safeway parking lot in Dillon. We were waiting for Breckenridge to open at 8am, so we grabbed some breakfast, changed in the kind-of-dirty bathroom and made the final push to Breckenridge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> That's Jason, blending into the trees, but enjoying a groomy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> It had been a long night and it started to catch up with us when we sat down for lunch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Well, any time we sat down at all, really.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Ali got her energy back when we checked into our condo and I tasked her with the decorating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> A hug for Isaac.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We met up with the W family the next morning to play at Breckenridge again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Such a fun day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We went out to dinner at Eric's in Breckenridge. My hamburger was too charred for my taste, but everyone else really enjoyed their dinner. The appetizers were yummy too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Jason planned ahead and brought a black dickie to wear under his white shirt in a nod to Uncle Eddie from the Griswold Christmas Vacation. The Ws didn't notice until I started laughing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our condo was a five minute walk to one of the lifts at Keystone, so the Ws parked at our place on Saturday the 22nd. We had a bunch of fresh snow overnight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Ali getting a boost on her way to the lift.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> These two had a great time together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These two had a great time together too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The Outback was loaded with snow. The first few runs rivaled our heli-boarding day. It kept snowing all morning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Still snowing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Blue skies in the afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I spent large portions of this trip filming Eli for a snowboard edit, so I handed the camera to him to snap a picture for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The majesty of nature never fails to point me to the majesty of the Creator.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We opened the puzzle present early. The coffee table was the perfect size for the project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the second year in a row that we have used this itty-bitty Christmas tree that Eli got from his year three teacher in Australia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Real fireplaces are much harder, but more rewarding too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pa flew in to join us on Christmas Eve. He was taking a shuttle from Denver. Jason heard about a relative of a church member who was in the hospital near us, so he took the morning off and visited the guy, ran a couple of errands and went back to the condo to wait for his dad to arrive. The kids and I hit the slopes. About an hour into the day we got on a chairlift and became eye witnesses to a horrifying scene. Here is my facebook post from later that day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;">So today started out in terrifying fashion...I was riding up a chairlift with all three kids and there was a dad with a small (maybe 6 or 7) girl in front of us. The girl slid off the chair with her dad holding her arm about 15 seconds into the ride and we watched, praying desperately, while she slipped from her dad's grip over the course of about three horrific minutes and plunged about 20 feet to the ground below. Thank God she fell in deep powder and was rolling around and</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-size: 14px;"> crying after she hit. The dad waited about 10 seconds and jumped about 30 feet down after her. He landed in a small tree, but said he was okay. We asked at Ski Patrol later and they said the girl was taken to the hospital, but they thought she was okay. It could have been so much worse. Thanking God for his protection and for the Ski Patrol and hugging my kids tightly this afternoon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were all so shaken that it took several hours before my heart rate settled back down. Our first full day at Keystone we went by a large group of Ski Patrollers surrounding a man on the ground. By the time we got back to the lift they had closed the backside of the mountain. We found out later that the man on the ground was a 52 year-old who had had a heart attack while skiing alone. They helicoptered him off the mountain, but he was already gone. So sad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We tried to go to a Christmas Eve service in town, but accidentally arrived at 6:30pm for the 6pm service. We made it in time for the closing remarks and the singing of Silent Night. When we got home from church we opened our presents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Eli designed a logo for Fat Fish - his snowboard tuning company. He and I conspired to create matching pajama shirts for Christmas Eve. It was shockingly hard to find pajamas that fit everyone. I ended up buying men's small pajama pants for Isaac and tailoring them to his size. I used our neighbor kid, Isaac's best friend, for a model.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kids got Jason Colorado gear for Christmas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The best present of the night was Pa's. Last time he was at our house the Winter Olympics were on, but every time we tried to watch it was nothing but curling. It turned into a family joke. Pa took the joke to the next level when he bought Eli a drone for his next birthday, but doctored the package to make it look like a top-of-the-line curling stone. While I was Christmas shopping for games on Amazon, Amazon suggested a table top curling game. I knew it had to be under the tree waiting for Papa D this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got exactly the reaction that I was looking for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eli's Christmas list had one item. Cash. He got it in USD and in Monopoly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The whole point of having matching pjs is the picture. Here it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plus one more, because they were a lot of work. And we look cute and cozy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I brought challah bread that I made and froze so that we could have our traditional Christmas breakfast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We saved the stockings for Christmas morning too. I searched and searched, planning to update our stockings this year. I finally found some that I liked and had them in an online shopping cart. When I asked for feedback from the rest of the family they were dismayed and asked why we couldn't use our regular stockings. So, here, once again, are our handmade, same-old stockings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a great Christmas day boarding at Vail. We thought the slopes would be crowded, but we rarely waited in line for more than a couple of minutes. When the slopes closed we came home and played games.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tabletop curling was surprisingly fun. Especially when Papa D pulled out his toothbrush to smooth the ice for his teammate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had never played a family game of Monopoly. Our first game lasted for three hours and I ended up with the whole board. It might have been the first time I ever played Monopoly by the rules.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eli won a sloth pancake mold at his White Elephant Bible Study Christmas party. He kept it a secret until the next morning when he volunteered to make breakfast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We dropped Pa off in at the Denver airport after lunch at Chick Fil-A and headed down to the Springs to spend two nights with the W family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was truly an Epic Christmas thanks to Vail Resort's incredible military pass deal, a great condo find by Jason, Pa coming to join us, happy, grateful hearts as we enjoyed the beauty of God's creation, the friends we got to spend time with, the traditions and joy of Christmas and each other.</span></div>
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When we realized that the Chesneys were leaving us early on Friday morning and we didn't have to go back to work until Monday we decided to take a quick trip to Colorado and put those Epic Passes to work. Jason and I dropped the Chesneys at the airport at 4am and zipped back to pick up the kids. They were waiting at the door. I think we were back on the road by 5am. It was supposed to be a ten hour drive. With three drivers the time went quickly until we got to the final pass. It was snowing hard and traffic was stopped for miles. It took us two hours to drive the last 30 miles.</div>
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Our friends, the W family, were at Keystone for a couple of nights and we planned to roll into town and share an early dinner, then hit Keystone for the evening. As we sat and sat we changed our plans. They ended up getting pizza for us all and we met them at their condo for dinner.</div>
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After dinner we bundled up and hit the slopes for a couple of hours of night skiing.</div>
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It was fun to be back on our boards and fun to be back with friends.</div>
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Keystone is a cool town.</div>
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Saying, "See you soon!"</div>
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Aren't they sweet?</div>
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We went to Breckenridge on Saturday in the morning and had a great powder day. There was so much powder that I didn't want to take my phone out of its plastic bag to take pictures.</div>
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Fresh tracks at Keystone on Sunday morning.</div>
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It cracked me up that our pictures came up on the screen every time they scanned our passes (that were tucked into our pockets). I'm not sure how they knew it was me.</div>
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So much powder.</div>
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Happy Alvi.</div>
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The sun came out in the afternoon.</div>
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Keystone provides wagons for transport between the mountain and the parking lots. Handy.</div>
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Eli and I found a wagon train!</div>
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Posing.</div>
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Keystone was all dressed up for the holidays.</div>
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Hitting the road back to Kansas at 3:00pm.</div>
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There was an ice storm blowing into Kansas as we drove.</div>
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The roads got awful a couple of hours into Kansas. We slowed down and stayed on I-70 until Manhattan. It was surprisingly hard to find accurate information about road closures. As far as I could tell I-70 was closed at Manhattan so we took a detour that ended up being to really horrible shape. There were cars off the road everywhere. We got the notification that school was canceled for Monday shortly after we got into Kansas, which took some of the pressure off, except that Jason still had to go to work. We got back on the interstate in Topeka and crawled the rest of the way home. We had hoped for a midnight arrival and rolled in at 3am instead. Whew!</div>
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We awoke to blue skies and a snowy yard.</div>
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Hot cocoa break, courtesy of Denali.</div>
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Snow day = work day for Eli. He's always got something in an online cart just waiting for the cash to hit "buy."</div>
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Jason came home for lunch and took a quick nap.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">We set up our nativity scene. When Ali saw it she said it was missing something and ran to get a dragon so that the scene would reflect Revelations 12.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"> I had my second gum surgery on November 29th. It involved just as much drama as the first one. I switched periodontists because the first surgery made zero difference in the gum. During the consult the new doc thought that I was anxious about the surgery (I told her that I didn't want gas because it made me pass out last time) so she gave me an eight pill prescription for an anti-anxiety medication and told me to take it before the surgery so make sure that I could handle it. I took it at six pm on Wednesday night. It knocked me out. I got up and went to work on Thursday morning feeling weird. I saw my first few groups, but it became evident pretty quickly that the meds turned me into a loon. I tried to tell a few friends that I wasn't feeling well and ended up weeping. I was running into the walls walking down the halls. Finally the other SLP told me that she could take me home. I agreed that was a good idea. I went to bed and slept almost until Jason came to take me to office for my 3pm surgery. The surgery is no fun 'cause even though they numb everything you can feel the pressure and know exactly what's happening. I felt okay afterwards, but I took the next day off to recover. I healed up fairly quickly, except for the massive bruise on my chin. Eek! In the end my gums were, once again, receded to the exact same spot on all three teeth. So disappointing.</span><br />
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We did a red, green and white tree this year. It was prettier than this picture would lead you to believe.</div>
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We had a few warm, beautiful days just after Thanksgiving, so I got our lights up.</div>
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Some work buddies talked me into joining them for a 5K in Kansas City. It was held in an underground complex, which was good because it was a COLD day.</div>
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Parts of the tunnel were lit up with Christmas decorations.</div>
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The temperature varied between about 35 degrees by the entrance, up to 81 degrees in the back. I removed my Santa hat, but I couldn't take off my vest while running because my number was pinned to it. So uncomfortable.</div>
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I had trained all fall for the Kansas City marathon. I didn't end up running it and hadn't run much since Thanksgiving because of visitors, travel and cold weather. The race was two laps. I finished in 27:54, just barely under 9 minute mile pace. Three of my friends were walking the course. I lapped them just before the finish line, so I walked their last lap with them.</div>
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My time was good enough for third place in my age group. A lady passed me about 100 feet before the finish line and finished two steps ahead of me. I discovered later that she was in my age group and beat me by one second.</div>
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I had to snap a picture of Eli in his pep band uniform. Unlike football season, where the entire marching band was on-call for every home game, basketball season band duties are on a rotating roster, so he's only played a few times.</div>
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I love my job and my colleagues.</div>
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We have a fun tradition at work for the week before Christmas break called, "Mustang on the Shelf." The principal hides our mascot somewhere in the building and when you find it you take a selfie and send it to him. Whoever finds it the most times during the competition wins a $5 Sonic card and bragging rights. I missed it one day and was tied for first with my friend, the school psychologist, so on the final morning of the competition I drove up to the school at 6am to search. I was back home for breakfast before she made it in. Winner!</div>
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Ali went to the Winter dance looking all fancy.</div>
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We spent a fun afternoon on our annual tradition of baking and building gingerbread houses.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> Ali started out planning for a church theme and somehow it morphed into a prison theme.</span></div>
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Isaac designed and built a candy castle.</div>
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Red food coloring provided the perfect, bloody touch.</div>
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Bloody prisoners jumping from the roof. The product of an happy-hearted girl who is so squeamish that she can't stand medical talk of the most gentle variety. We're still not sure what came over her...</div>
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Eli realized recently that Isaac and his two best friends have the amazing capacity to turn a one person activity into fun for three. His gingerbread house was no exception.</div>
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I loved how my gingerbread house turned out this year.</div>
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I was holding my camera at 5pm when the daily retreat bugle call was played. It never fails to make me proud to see military kids stop any outside activity, face the flag and put their hands over their hearts in respect for military tradition.</div>
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Our tree, all glow.</div>
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Merry December!!</div>
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The Chesneys hadn't been to see us since last time we lived in Kansas. We were super excited when they made plans to come for Thanksgiving.</div>
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I was excited to get my hands on these cuties again.</div>
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Elly is as horse crazy as Ali. They were excited when Jason made arrangements to bring Elly along to Ali's lesson.</div>
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That afternoon we visited the carousel in downtown Leavenworth to take some spins.</div>
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I was happy to take pictures, as spinning in circles does not agree with my stomach.</div>
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Isaac sitting proudly on his steed.</div>
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Hmmm... I wonder how I would look if was short?</div>
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Cowboys.</div>
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Cute girls.</div>
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Strolling.</div>
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Cousins are awesome.</div>
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Isaac asked Jesus to be his savior a couple of years ago. He recently started asking when he could be baptized. We decided that it would be awesome to do it with family in town.</div>
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After the baptism our church body gathered around Isaac and prayed that he would grow to be a man who loves and serves God with his whole heart.<br />
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Evan was cute. He waited for Isaac to come back out after he changed so that he could shake his hand.</div>
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Chesneys are readers.</div>
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And bakers. These two helped Grandma make Thanksgiving pies.</div>
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We spent one day in Kansas City. The Kaleidoscope Kids Center, run by Hallmark was a fun place to spend an hour.</div>
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You could paint a puzzle...</div>
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There was a black light room, a kaleidoscope station and various other activities. </div>
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Next stop, the Crown Center plaza. The decorations were set up, but the lighting ceremony was still a couple of days away, so we didn't get to see it in all its glory.</div>
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When I was looking for fun stuff to do in Kansas City I found pictures of this book mural at the parking garage for the city library. There is a free downtown shuttle that goes by it. We rode the shuttle to the library to take a few pictures.</div>
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Then back to the Crown Center for ice skating. Ali has been wanting to go ice skating for a long, long time, so we finally made it happen.</div>
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I pretended to enjoy it for the camera, but the pain level involved in wearing the horrible rental skates with "no-show" socks so that my ankles were quickly worn raw and took weeks to recover was significant.</div>
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The kids all picked it up quickly.</div>
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The experience did bring back happy memories of the winter that Dad made a skating rink for us for Christmas. Us kids spent many happy hours making up routines and circling and spinning around the rink.</div>
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We had dinner in the Crown Center.</div>
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These two battle it out across the chess board every time they get together.</div>
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We hit Meriwethers one morning for the best doughnuts in town.</div>
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Ed hard at work creating the traditional rolls for the feast.</div>
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Isaac and his prize turkey.</div>
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Hungry kids.</div>
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Don't be fooled by the moderately sized servings. There were seconds and thirds.</div>
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Happy table.</div>
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Ed was impressed with our sidewalk freebie foosball table until he realized that some of the handles had been installed backwards. He led the charge to correct the issue. Epic battles happened before and after.</div>
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Happy Grandma.</div>
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Take seventeen, but you can see everyone's face. Score.</div>
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We had such a great time with these wonderful people. They left early, early on Friday morning.</div>
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Mom arrived on November 9th. Eli had a school project that required that he go to Kansas City to interview a music producer on Saturday, so we hung out and waited for him and then checked out the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.</div>
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It was cold and windy out, but we braved the cold to see the sculptures.</div>
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Checking out the glass maze. I felt a little like a bird - in danger at every turn.</div>
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Inside the museum.</div>
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Don't touch or let your clothing brush ANYTHING or risk being yelled at. I love a friendly museum.</div>
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We've been there! Brian got a bloody nose in that piazza.</div>
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Thoughtfully considering the art. Or just posing.</div>
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Mom always has to visit the Rembrandts for her dad.</div>
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We had a very moving 100th Anniversary Remembrance ceremony for the WWI armistice on Sunday morning.</div>
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The kids weren't interested, but Jason, Mom and I went downtown to check out the Veteran's Day Parade in the icy wind.</div>
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Eli's marching band was supposed to participate, but the director decided that it was too cold for students and instruments. Smart man.</div>
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I can't even imagine how cold these ladies' feet were.</div>
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Jason, Isaac and I got up early on the Saturday before Thanksgiving to run in the on post Turkey Trot 5K. Isaac took off like a rocket and I never caught him. I won my age group with a finish time of 24:57 (a respectable-for-me 8:26 mile pace). Isaac was done at least a minute and a half before me to take the below 13 year-old category. Jason beat us both and came in second in his age group. Mom came to watch us. We tried to convince her to compete. Her uber-fast walking pace that she practices at work for 40+ hours per week would probably have been enough to earn her own turkey.</div>
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Once the soccer season was over Eli joined a Futsal (indoor soccer) league. He practices twice a week and has games a couple of times per month on Saturdays.</div>
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It's a much smaller field, so only five players are on the court at a time, making it a faster paced game.</div>
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We've been the grateful recipients of hundreds of perks as a military family since 9/11. Vail Resorts rolled out the best one yet at the end of last ski season. $99 season passes for each family member at 13 resorts around the country and the world. We couldn't quite believe that it was true until the passes arrived in our mailbox.</div>
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Two of my favorite cooks busy in the kitchen.</div>
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Ali joined her friends at the junior high Halloween Dance.</div>
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Posing with the neighbor's Frankencrow.<br />
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Ali and company.</div>
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Isaac and I didn't have a dance to go to, but we had spirit week at school. This was Wacky Wednesday. Isaac had already shed his wacky socks and shoes.</div>
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Jason found an Apple Cider Festival that he wanted to check out. He invited some friends and off we went. It had rained and rained the week before, leaving the corn maze a goopy mess.</div>
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Indulging mom.</div>
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Ali's shoes final moments as white.</div>
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He forgot his coat, refused to wear anyone else's and was grouchy until we got doughnuts in him.</div>
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Ahhh. Fresh hot cider and apple doughnuts. Yummy!</div>
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School started August 6 for me and August 14th for the kids. The kids were at three different schools this year. One high schooler, one middle schooler and one in elementary school. Isaac and I get to be together again this year, but he's not in my hall anymore, so I don't get to see him quite as often as I did last year. </div>
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High school is intense. Before the school year even started Eli had marching band boot camp. They practiced for four hours every evening for a week to be ready for the first football game. Eli wasn't a huge fan of the uniform, but they looked great on the field.</div>
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It had been a couple of years since Eli had played saxophone, so he took a month's worth of private lessons before school started. His teacher was so great that we kept up the lessons until life got so busy that we were canceling more often than going to lessons.</div>
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Jason coached Isaac's soccer team this fall. They lost their first game (to a team with two giant European brothers who couldn't speak English, but could speak soccer), but were undefeated the rest of the season (including the rematch with the first team). </div>
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Go Firebirds!</div>
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Happiness is being in class and soccer with your two best friends who are also your next-door neighbors. These three boys are talented soccer players and it was fun to watch them work together.</div>
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Eli joined the high school soccer team this fall as well. Every day after school he went straight to soccer study hall (mandated by the coach), then soccer practice until 7pm. Once a week he left soccer early to practice with the marching band from 6-8pm. For a couple of months on Thursdays he went from school to study hall, left early for saxophone lessons, went to soccer practice, went to worship team practice at the chapel, then to piano lessons, then came home to finish his homework (honors English, honors Biology and AP European history). It was exhausting just being his Uber driver.</div>
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He had a great season and loved the camaraderie of being part of the team.</div>
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A long-standing dream of Ali's came true when she and Jason did a bunch of research and got her started with English riding lessons in August.</div>
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Jason takes her every weekend to stables about 40 minutes away for her lesson. She comes home sore and happy.</div>
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Eli has been playing drums with the chapel worship band at the morning service since we got to Ft Leavenworth. He doesn't get to play every week because they rotate the backup musicians. He was asked to play keys for the first time this fall. I love to watch him play.</div>
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It was a fun, busy fall!</div>
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We have a beautiful, historic chapel on post. It was completed in 1878. I run past it regularly and always think that it would make a good photo backdrop. I wanted sunflower pictures too. We missed prime sunflower bloomage by a week, but we still got some decent pictures.</div>
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Ali was babysitting that evening. We took the kid along with us. We got lots of strange looks as he stayed behind the camera for most of the pictures.</div>
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Oops! Sorry, Isaac!</div>
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Isaac usually wants a low-key birthday, but this year I talked him into having a party with friends. He settled on having his family and his second family join him at Main Event for laser tag, a ropes course, arcade games and quesadillas.</div>
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Back at our place for cake. Isaac wanted brownies. Done. I used to spend hours on birthday cakes. Brownies fit my schedule better these days. I love that Isaac is just as happy either way.</div>
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Happy birthday, dear Isaac!</div>
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Ten years of Isaac. A decade of joy and laughter.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Denali got braces over the summer. Here's the before pic.</span></div>
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I asked for a bigger classroom over the summer. When enrollment was finished and the principals realized that they would just have three third grade classes they offered me the empty one. Ahhh... space!</div>
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Ali came in and helped me decorate before school started.</div>
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Isaac and Denali both went to a local church camp this summer. Both listed it as the highlight of their summer. The camp had a reunion weekend in August, so we took the family.</div>
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Isaac hadn't been allowed on the ropes course during camp because of his age. We are able to do the course as a family while we were there.</div>
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It was tough to navigate because the ropes didn't flow smoothly. Some of us had a few grouchy moments up there. She wasn't one of the grouchy ones.</div>
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Isaac's cabin.</div>
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Ali's too.</div>
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Ali went to horse camp. Dream come true.</div>
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We had picked up coupons for free frosty juniors at some point. We decided to get some on the way home. They were so, so tiny that we all burst out laughing when the worker handed them in the window.</div>
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This kid spent four long weeks at Driver's Ed in July. He had class from 9-11 and driving practice from 11-1. Three trips to the DMV downtown (they were annoyed that I didn't have a Kansas license and kept asking for different paperwork proving that we live here), a three week wait, and Eli had a driver's permit. Watch out, world.</div>
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We got home from our lake trip in the early evening. Isaac, Jason and I ventured out to watch the fireworks on-post.</div>
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Ali and Isaac bought these funny, inflatable chairs for the trip. They made pretty good viewing platforms.</div>
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After greatly enjoying our meet up with Colorado friends over Christmas we decided that meeting up with two of our favorite families from our Colorado days would be even better. Lots of Facebook group messages later we had a plan. Three nights at Cedar Bluffs Reservoir in Western Kansas. The W family drove east with their motorhome and their ski boat for five hours, we drove west, towing a rental pontoon boat for about five hours and the S family drove five hours north from Oklahoma City.<br />
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We rented two cabins. Ours was the Trapper's Lodge. It was full of dead, stuffed animals (which I guess we should have predicted), but was a cozy, two-bedroom cabin overlooking the Res.</div>
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The S family wasn't able to come until the following afternoon. Morning dawned bright and clear and we headed out in the ski boat to play. The Ws have all kinds of boat toys. Here's E, making surfing in the wake look way, way easier than it actually is.</div>
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Eli chilling.</div>
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Ali cruising around.</div>
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Eli surfing.</div>
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Isaac loved the knee-board, especially once he figured out how to get out of the wake.</div>
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Jason enjoying being back on a water ski.</div>
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C, the pro.</div>
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A bow full of kids.</div>
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I went for a spin on the wakeboard and tried my best to surf.</div>
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Hangin' in the motorhome for a lunch break.</div>
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The S family arrived and we took the ski boat and the pontoon boat to the water, only to find that the ski boat didn't want to go. We eventually figured out that there was an unrecoverable problem with the alternator. The pontoon took over as the party boat.</div>
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We had a fun afternoon swimming and pulling people around on the tube.</div>
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It's not camping without a marshmallow roasting fire.</div>
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Three awesome men.</div>
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Some of the kids went on a successful fire-fly hunt.</div>
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July 3rd. Back on the water.</div>
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Tubin' with the ladies.</div>
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The kids had to mix it up a little to keep it exciting.</div>
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These three were entertained for a long time catching frogs.</div>
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The pontoon couldn't pick up a whole lot of speed with all fourteen of us, so we set up camp on shore and took turns on the boat.</div>
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Eli and C with "cool mom."</div>
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We held a competition to see who could balance the longest while standing in the tube.</div>
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I was not the winner.</div>
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Fourteen people gathered and brought at least 30 books. One of the many reasons why I like these people.</div>
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Evening was game time. The Ws brought corn hole and a hanging ball swinging game.</div>
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This one.</div>
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The four oldest kids had an epic corn hole battle.</div>
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The first game went to the boys, the second (this one) to the girls and the boys squeaked out a victory in the end.</div>
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July fourth found us back on the pontoon and the tube.</div>
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We set up camp on the little beach on the other side of the lake this time. I was sitting here when I went to check the time and discovered that my wrist was missing my expensive Garmin 935. Note to self - secure watch before tubing.</div>
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We all needed to get home, so we packed up and headed off just after lunch. But first, a few group photos.</div>
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It was so much fun to watch our kids develop friendships over the course of the weekend.</div>
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When you've moved eight times in twenty years it can be hard to keep friendships going. It was such a blessing to pick back up where we left off with these dear friends. </div>
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We are going to try very hard to make this an annual tradition. Here's to summer and friendships!!</div>
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Mom has told me about Norman Lowell's wonderful art studio for years. We finally had a chance to visit it on our way to Homer.</div>
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I thought that I took more pictures. I would have loved to have taken some of the paintings home with me. It is an incredible collection </div>
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Friendly Mom saw the artist come in and couldn't resist asking for a photo.</div>
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The artist's homestead is on the property and is open for wandering. We checked it out.</div>
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Ali was not impressed by the ptarmigan hunting scene.</div>
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After the gallery we drove down into Homer and had a delicious pizza lunch at 3Js (formerly Starving' Marvins). This cool lighthouse was beside the restaurant.</div>
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Down to the spit.</div>
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The Salty Dawg - Homer's most well known establishment.</div>
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I had never been inside before. Snug.</div>
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We did some shopping on the spit. I bought four Japanese glass fishing floats that make me happy.</div>
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We stopped at the overlook coming out of Homer for some pictures. The clouds were still low and thick, but I tried. Eli got his drone out to get some shots. There were probably a dozen eagles soaring all over and I was nervous that the would attack the drone, but Eli kept it up high and they didn't seem to notice it.</div>
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We zipped by Grandpa and Grandma Thompson's old cabin. It still looks pretty much the same.</div>
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The little sod (and tree) covered sauna fascinated me as a child. I think Grandpa kept his pigeons in there. Mom said that Uncle Robby built it. </div>
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One last stop at the beautiful Russian Orthodox church by the cemetery where Grandpa and Grandma Thompson are buried.</div>
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I was walking around the church trying to get to the cemetery and a lady came up the hill. I asked if I could get to the cemetery on the trail that we were on. She said to follow her. We chatted a little and discovered that she knew my grandparents well and had fond memories of when Grandpa was the janitor at Ninilchik school.</div>
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Grandpa and Grandma's well-flowered graves. I think they would like them that way. </div>
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Headed home. I think we wore them out.</div>
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Eli, Ali and Macayla had a teen party to go to so Mom, Isaac, Brenden, Joy and I went mini-golfing after grabbing a quick Subway dinner with David.</div>
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Aunt Joy gave the boys five dollars each to blow in the arcade after golfing.</div>
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We squeezed in one more adventure on our way out. I really wanted the kids to see a glacier because they are rapidly shrinking away. We did some research and discovered Byron Glacier, near Portage.</div>
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We met up at the visitor's center.</div>
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It was less than a mile hike into the glacier.</div>
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It's smart to bring armed men with you when you venture into the Alaskan wilderness.</div>
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Exploring.</div>
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Glacier blue is the coolest color.</div>
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Next stop, Winner Creek Trail. It's one way, so we parked cars in Girdwood and then piled into the pick-up to drive to the other end.</div>
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The coolest part of the hike is the hand tram over the gorge.</div>
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Beefy dudes waiting on either side acted as the motors.</div>
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So beautiful.</div>
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Mom and David checking out the scat. Ha!</div>
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The famous "Butt Tree."</div>
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Final stop, Alyeska Resort. We rode the tram to the top for dinner and a view.</div>
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Sad "goodbyes." Joy and Brian took us to the airport for our 10pm flight to Seattle and then home.</div>
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Zoey waved goodbye too.</div>
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It was a wonderful trip home to the Last Frontier. It was fun to get to explore parts of Alaska that the rest of the family had never seen and it is so good for the soul to be with family. Can't wait for the next time!</div>
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Rhubarb hats. A tradition worth passing down.</div>
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Boy cousins.</div>
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I can't remember why, but we decided that we should make macarons. I think it was to use up the egg whites after using the yolks to make lemon gelato. The first batch was sort of lumpy, but the rest turned out pretty pretty and tasty too.</div>
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Uncle David let the kids take turns driving his bulldozer.</div>
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She would make a good country girl.</div>
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The wildflowers of my childhood. Wild geranium.</div>
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Wild rose.</div>
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We were strolling down the driveway chatting and taking pictures.</div>
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Eli, Isaac and I were up ahead and came over the crest of the hill down to the neighbor's house and saw a brown furry body in the road. By the time I thought to take a picture he had put his head back down. We yelled back to the rest of the family, but by the time they got there the bear had wandered into the woods and didn't make a reappearance.</div>
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Brian was headed out of town for work in the morning when the water heater stopped working. He and Joy stayed up late trying to fix it, to no avail. No worries, the Alvises are experts at the tub o' water shower.</div>
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I wish that I had taken pictures of the final products.</div>
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Eagle family again!</div>
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Eli asked Aunt Joy for a spa shampoo.</div>
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We made it part way through our list of friends that we wanted to catch up with in Alaska. This was a fun reunion with a dear childhood friend, her kids and her big sister.</div>
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It was pouring rain outside, but that didn't stop these crazies.</div>
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Ali and my friend's daughter bonded quickly.</div>
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These two are only a couple of months apart in age.</div>
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Childhood buddies.</div>
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The ladies.</div>
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Isaac schooling his aunt and uncle on cubes.</div>
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Friends had us over for a delicious meal and a fun afternoon on the lake. Rain threatened all afternoon, but held off until we were headed to the cars.</div>
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The sign of a confident paddle boarder... her phone is in her back pocket.</div>
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Lunch time! Our friend made a huge spread of amazing Filipino food. Yummy! </div>
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It was cold out so we kept our warm clothes on, but we wanted a ride anyway. Brian putted us around the lake at zero adrenaline speed. It was a hilarious ride because we started out so slow that the front of the inner tube was high out of the water and our heads were about to dip in.</div>
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About half the families on the lake had float planes moored to their docks. This one took off as the boys were out tubing.</div>
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The next door neighbors have an awesome rope swing and a cool dock.</div>
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Eli flying high.</div>
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The water was cooooold.</div>
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David brought his awesome portable sauna.</div>
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Ali.</div>
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The girls out for a ride.</div>
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David convinced Mom to get in on the fun.</div>
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Brenden.</div>
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We dropped Mom off at work and made it to the Joneses way past bedtime, which seems to be our usual custom. We eventually forced ourselves to go to bed so that we could get up and play the next day. Brenden had saved up his money and bought a hoverboard. We all took turns checking it out.</div>
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The cousins had been working for more than a month on this visit's movie production. They decided to write an original song and create a music video to go with it. They spent the first two days arguing about all of the details. They eventually got things hammered out and got to work on the storyboards, costumes, recording and filming.</div>
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Sewing costumes.</div>
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I don't feel like I'm home until I've have a good wander around the property. This is one of Dad's apple trees in the old garden plot.</div>
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Ed and I spent hours high up in the branches of this beautiful tree.</div>
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I'm not a huge fan of Dad's junkyard, but I am fond of this old blue Sunday school bus that was probably on the property before I was.</div>
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This old foundation has always been a mystery to me. It must be part of the original homestead.</div>
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An eagle family took up residence in a tree over the bluff. They were great fun to watch.</div>
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The barn door makes me happy.</div>
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So does this tree that Dad wrapped in fencing when it was small to keep the moose from devouring it. It has thrived.</div>
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The playhouse. One of the many ways that we knew that Dad loved us kids.</div>
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Speaking of Dad... we made a family visit to the cemetery. I felt closer to him in church on Sunday though, in the beautiful sanctuary that he helped build, where he and mom got married, dedicated four children and walked both daughters down the aisle. It's hard to believe that it's been eight years since that sanctuary became a sacred spot for his funeral.</div>
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We love and miss you, Dad.</div>
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We headed to the Kasilof beach after dinner. The boys and Macayla threw the football.</div>
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Mom, Joy, Ali and I strolled and picked up pretty rocks.</div>
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We thought it would be interesting to take the Alaska railroad to Denali National Park.</div>
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It was a very enjoyable four hour ride.</div>
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We sat by a group of five older couples who were taking their fourth or fifth trip together. They were a cheerful group and lots of fun to talk to.</div>
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My favorite picture from the trip.</div>
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Dall sheep.</div>
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The train went much more slowly than I had imagined, which made photography easier, but reaching one's destination slower.</div>
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They kept the windows open in the spaces between the cars so you could take in the views without glass in your way.</div>
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Made it! The train dropped us at the Denali station, which was surprisingly far from Denali's hub. We caught a bus into town and hung out at a gift shop for about 40 minutes until the Zitkos came through and picked us up. After our happy reunion we piled in and rode to our cabins in Healy. Derek's dad brought his RV and he had reserved two cabins for the Z family and us to stay in. The cabins were on a pretty lake.</div>
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Dinner in the kitchen/bath house.</div>
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It was cloudy the whole time we were there.</div>
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Eight kids, one cabin.</div>
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Derek's dad had made the arrangements for our Denali bus tour months earlier. He called the day before to check on things and was told that the tickets that he had reserved were for July 11th. Noooo!! There were 15 in our party, so getting the tickets switched to June 11th was no small task. We ended up with eleven tickets on the 10am bus and four tickets on the 11am bus. After a last minute shuffle, moms and kids ended up on the first bus out and Jason, Derek, Derek's dad and his girlfriend on the second bus.</div>
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Our tickets were for the 12 hour round-trip to Wonder Lake (the end of the road and the famous spot where most of the pictures of Denali reflected in a lake are taken). Papa Zitko specifically bought the "Non-narrated" tickets because he didn't want someone yapping at him for the entire 12 hours. Our bus driver did not get the message. She yapped almost solidly for the entire five hours that we rode with her. Twenty-five percent of her yapping was instructions on how to be quiet and threats that if we couldn't be quiet for the Dall sheep that were a mile away, up on the mountain, then she wouldn't stop if we saw a bear.</div>
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Moose! Our first sighting from the bus.</div>
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There were a couple bears out by the river.</div>
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Caribou.</div>
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Michael took a little nap.</div>
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It started snowing as we got higher up in elevation.</div>
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Every time we stopped everyone rushed to the windows for a view.</div>
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This was our coolest wildlife sighting of the day.</div>
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We sat for probably five minutes and watched this guy root around.</div>
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Two amigos.</div>
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Cool kids.</div>
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Our sweet ride.</div>
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This two year-old was a rockstar on a long, long day. So was her momma.</div>
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It was lots of fun to watch Michael enjoy the snow.</div>
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Denali was really hoping to see a ptarmigan. Yay!! He wasn't as fluffy in the summer time, but he was still fun to see.</div>
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In the saddest moment of the day. The bus driver acknowledged that we weren't going to see The Great One and passed around a finger-printed picture of her instead.</div>
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We arrived at mile 66 (Eielson Visitor Center) and were met by a bus coordinator who gave us the message to stay there and wait for Jason, Derek and crew to arrive. There was no cell phone coverage in the park, so I had gotten that message from Jason just before we pulled out of cell phone range, but when I tried to reply and confirm the plan we were already out of range.</div>
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We passed the time by snacking, watching a movie about climbing Denali and having the kids complete their Junior Ranger books. This ranger was very nice and made a big deal about Denali sharing her name with the park and the mountain.</div>
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The kids took their Junior Ranger oath (even the ones (ahem, Eli) who drew cartoons in their books instead of completing them).</div>
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Denali was the only kid who got a badge with her name on it.</div>
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A beautiful view of one of the Denalis.</div>
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After some tense moments, we all made it on the same bus for the long ride back.</div>
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A family of foxes. You could see them running around by their den.</div>
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Our visit with the Zs was over too soon, but it was so, so good to spend the day with them.</div>
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Once we parted ways we went out to dinner at the 49th State Brewing Company. They had the bus from the movie Into the Wild in the parking lot.</div>
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Even though it was recreated, it was still creepy inside, thinking about the story of the kid who escaped into the Alaskan wilderness and died in the "magic bus."</div>
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We had amazing halibut tacos and delicious root beer.</div>
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Public transportation was spotty and we were only two miles from our campground, so we decided to hike along the highway to get back.</div>
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Almost there!</div>
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Alaska has enormous hares.</div>
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Back at the campground and enjoying the views of the slowly setting sun.</div>
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The next morning we called the only ride in town to pick us up at the campground and take us twelve minutes down the road for the Alaskan price of $65!! She did throw in a photo stop.</div>
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Okay, a couple of photo stops.</div>
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We checked in for our train and then hung out in the Denali Visitor Center while we waited for our departure time.</div>
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Back on the train for our eight hour journey from Denali to Anchorage.</div>
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It was beautiful and the time went by pretty quickly.</div>
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I wasn't going to make my step goal for the day, so I went to the open space between the train cars and walked in place until I hit my 10,000 step goal. Ali and Isaac joined me for some of it.</div>
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I loved the feeling of getting closer and closer to home as the trees and flowers outside the train morphed into those that I knew as a child. We pulled into Anchorage at 10:30pm. David and Mom picked us up at the station. Three more hours and we were home.</div>
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Denali had never been to visit the mountain for which she was named. I hadn't been since I was four. We decided that needed remedied, so we booked our tickets to Fairbanks for our first stop on our Alaskan vacation. </div>
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We got in early so we picked up our rental car and then went to check out Pioneer Park (formerly Alaskaland).</div>
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My cousin got married in this cute little church twenty years ago. It was fun to go back.</div>
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Kissing the bride.</div>
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Checking out the "pioneer town" of cute little shops.</div>
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I have always been fascinated by totem poles.</div>
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Picture in the gazebo where my cousin had his wedding pictures.</div>
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Day 2: Joy had recommended the Riverboat Discovery cruise. We opted for the morning one and it was so, so great.</div>
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We cruised along the Chena River. The first stop was for a float plane demo.</div>
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Second stop was at Susan Butcher (a famous Iditarod winner in the 80s)'s home. She passed away several years ago, but her daughter was there and came out on shore, along with some helpers, and talked about dog sledding. We got to see the puppies.</div>
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The daughter did a demonstration with the sled dogs pulling her on a four-wheeler. It was amazing to watch how fast they could go.</div>
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The next stop was a a reindeer reserve.</div>
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Then a recreated native village. A young lady with native heritage talked to us about prepping and drying salmon to preserve it.</div>
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After we turned around we stopped at the village for about 45 minutes. We got off and strolled around to three different spots where our guides explained different aspects of traditional native life.</div>
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Alaskan vacation home?</div>
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The guides explained all of the furs and then held up the white ermine (on the right) and asked if there were any Texans in the crowd. There were. She told us that that fur was a Texan polar bear. The Texans didn't think it was as funny as the rest of the crowd.</div>
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These moose were found with their antlers locked together.</div>
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The view from the back on the boat.</div>
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They had blueberry doughnuts in the morning and salmon dip at the end of trip. The dip was really good. They kids and I may have visited each station multiple times.</div>
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We had initially planned to take public transportation around Fairbanks, but we were glad to have a rental car.</div>
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Next stop, the Large Animal Research Center. It was great fun to see the baby muskox.</div>
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We learned lots of interesting things about muskox, but this guy was the huge highlight of the visit.</div>
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We met a family from Arizona who had been traveling around in an RV for a couple of years with four kids. It started pouring down rain while we were in the little gift hut, so we stayed and chatted with them for a while.</div>
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Muskox hair (the soft stuff under the long stuff) is super expensive. They had some sample scarves on display that were incredibly soft.</div>
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Isaac is our earliest riser at home, but he can sleep in a car like no one's business. It was handy to have sibling shoulders nearby. </div>
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With 20 hours of daylight we could fit a lot into each day. We ended this one at the pipeline visitor's area. I had always wanted to see it.</div>
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Eli took his awesome drone that Papa D bought him for this birthday so that he could get a bird's eye view. Something went wrong and the drone ended up in a tree. It looks obvious here, but we spent about thirty minutes of tense searching before I finally spotted it. Luckily, Eli had noted how far it had flown from his take-off point before the battery died, so we were able to narrow down the search. I used my garmin watch to pace out the distance so that we would have a better idea of where to look.</div>
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Once we located it we spent another thirty minutes formulating a plan to retrieve it. Jason and the kids all put sweatshirts over their arms and made a trampoline beneath the drone while I shook the branch with a long, long stick. It finally broke loose and I yelled, "Here it comes!" while the rest of the family prepared to catch it. It landed on Ali's arm and sweatshirt. It came away with a couple of scratches and some cracked props, but overall it could have been much worse.</div>
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Jason somehow discovered that the Fairbanks REI was having their annual members sale on Saturday. We thought it was starting at 10, so we arrived at 9:30 to be there when it started and found it already in full swing. We dug through boxes of returns for a while and came out with some cool gear.</div>
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Next stop, the Fairbanks visitor center.</div>
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We went for a stroll along the Chena River. It turned out that the stroll was also along the highway, so it wasn't as charming as I had anticipated. There were some beautiful wild roses, though.</div>
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Alvi and an antler arch.</div>
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I remember the Santa Claus House in North Pole from when I was a kid. We had to go back. The old giant 1-D Santa had been replaced with a 3-D Santa. </div>
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We came out with nothing but another check on the list of places we've been.</div>
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The number two attraction in North Pole was Lady of the Lake. We ended up in the driveway of a house with a blue tarp on our first attempt, but then went to Eielson Air Force Base and saw a picture at the PX, so we figured out that the plane was inside the base. It was a totally random sight. The plane was parted out until there was almost nothing left of it. Someone was tasked to pull it out to this frozen pond. They assumed that once the pond thawed the plane would sink out of sight, but it turned out that the pond wasn't deep enough, so now it sits, partially submerged, as a monument to poor planning.</div>
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We stayed at a great airbnb in Fairbanks. It was a cool log home with a modern interior. I wish that I had taken some pictures.</div>
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We left the next morning to take the train to Denali National Park. We had a great time in Fairbanks and were glad that we took the time to explore there.</div>
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When we booked our tickets to Alaska they had a layover in Portland. We decided to extend the layover and spend two nights and one full day with the Chesney fam. Jeremy and his girlfriend, Mai drove down to spend the day with us as well.</div>
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Emily fed us all breakfast, packed us a lunch and then we headed out to spend the day hiking Silvertail Falls. Ed and Em dropped the three little ones off with Em's parents.</div>
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It was a perfect day for a hike and a really beautiful trail.</div>
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The hike was a little over 6 miles roundtrip.</div>
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Oregon smells amazing. It was amazing to be surrounded by lush green again.</div>
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The happy hikers.</div>
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We stumbled across a community of Lorax.</div>
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Back home with the babies. This little man grew a ton in the six months since we saw him last.</div>
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These two are so full of life and energy.</div>
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Bros!</div>
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Couples.</div>
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Alvi.</div>
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Ed got up before the crack of dawn to haul us to the airport for our trip to Alaska. Our time in Portland was very short, but super sweet.</div>
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