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Belated 20th Anniversary Trip, Part 2
One of the things Trevor really wanted to do on our trip was dress up fancy, have a nice dinner and take some photos. This post is going to be just that because we took so many pictures I can’t decide which ones to post and which ones not to post. For dinner we went…
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Belated 20th Anniversary Trip, Part 1
As you all know, COVID canceled a lot of stuff. Our big 20th anniversary trip was one of them. We celebrated our 20th in August with a smaller celebration as mentioned in an earlier post, but we still wanted to take a trip somewhere. With the borders of Canada still being closed we finally decided…
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January, February and March update
We got our biggest snow at the end of January. The kids had fun sledding with friends and playing in the yard. Glorianna made Phibby a house out of a big cardboard box. He loved it until it caved in from all the snow. We had a good mix of snow and ice. We had…
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Florida/Disney Trip – Part 6 – Animal Kingdom, Round 2 and Final Thoughts
Saturday, January 16 – Today we went back to Animal Kingdom. We road the Animal Safari Ride again and got to see more animals and enjoyed walking around looking at more cool sights. We got to see a father giraffe teaching his son how to neck fight. That was pretty cool. We got to see…
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Florida/Disney Trip – Part 5 – Hollywood Studies Round 2
Friday, January 15 – When we got our tickets, we had a buy 4 days and get 2 free. So now that we had seen all 4 parks we decided to revisit our favorites. Today we went back to Hollywood Studios so we could enjoy some of the Star Wars rides again. That was so…
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Florida/Disney Trip – Part 4 – Animal Kingdom
Thursday, January 14 – Animal Kingdom What an awesome park. We really enjoyed this one and road some amazing rides. There was a really cool Chirstmas Tree at the entrance of the park. The “tree of life” is really cool. It’s in the middle of the park and it has all kinds of animals carved…
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Florida/Disney Trip Part 3 – Magic Kingdom
Wednesday, January 13 – Magic Kingdom Ok. This is going to sound weird but this wasn’t our favorite park. It’s not one we’d visit again. Not sure what all the hype is about this one but maybe it’s because we are all too old. I don’t know. All I know is that we were a…
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Disney Part 2 – Hollywood Studios/Galaxies Edge
Tuesday, January 12 – Hollywood Studios Galaxy’s Edge was the main reason we went to this park. Being Star Wars fans, the kids really wanted to do the lightsaber experience and the droid building experience. I must say, I was really impressed. The detail that Disney went into to make this section of the park…
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Florida/Disney Vacation Part 1 – West Palm Beach and Epcot
Friday, January 8 we left home after Riah finished his Prosser class and headed to West Palm Beach, FL. We drove about 10 hours and then got a hotel for the night. Beautiful drive through the mountains. Welcome to Florida!! Saturday, January 9 – After breakfast we left the hotel and finished up the drive…
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Christmas 2020
Christmas was fun. We had a smaller Christmas this year because we had a big trip coming up as a Christmas/Graduation/Birthday combo for kids. That post coming soon. A few decor pictures. My village which I started collecting this year. It’s wooden and mostly flat so it store really well. I love it. My present…