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    The RV Trip! Part 1

    Okay, so back when we were tossing around ideas for the summer, I casually mentioned possibly doing an RV trip. Not mentioning that I really, really wanted us to do it. Because I knew the lion’s share of the actual work of an RV trip would depend solely on Phil- the renting of the thing, the booking of places to stay, the driving of the thing, the hooking up of the things, the making sure generally all of the things worked without my knowing in the least how it all actually worked. Plus also the making of the fires in the fire pit so that we could do s’mores each…

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    Legoland! Part 2

    The next morning at the not-quite-so bright and early time of 10 am, we headed back into Legoland via our not-quite-so secret back entrance.                                                             And that’s all the pictures I took of this vacation because we went to the water park and the aquarium on this day and just didn’t want to lug the big camera around with me. So that’s all she wrote about this one. The end. (Thanks for the memories, Legoland!)

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    Legoland! Part 1

    Ahhh, what a beautiful summer it has been. I think we got to *most* of the kids’ summer bucket list items, with one or two glaring omissions. It has been so full and so fun and so busy and yet so relaxing that I hate to see it end already. We are in our last week before school starts on Monday and I think none of us are quite ready to switch back. Yet on the other hand, having a few quiet hours to myself each week means I can welcome back the things that got omitted what with the kids requesting to be fed every couple of hours. Things…