Saturday, January 21, 2012

A photo journal of our 7 week trip to Alabama

Reposted blog entry from May 30, 2007 

This one is for you, Josh. Since you "need" pictures to look at.
They are all photos from our trip.

So we packed our bags

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and went on a trip.

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...a very long trip.

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We set out from California on our way to Alabama

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 where my husband had an Air Force class to complete.

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We stopped in Dallas to see his sister

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and her family

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and my sister

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and her family

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Then we got back on the road

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When we got to Alabama, the hotel room was much smaller than we expected.

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So the next week I took the kids on to South Carolina to visit my brother and his family.

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Since we were so close, I called up my friend Lori for a visit.

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But then it was back to our cage

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uh, I mean, hotel, where we met some new friends

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and got into the swing of things.

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It felt like a zoo

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oh, wait, I mean, we went to the zoo.

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Then Asha got the chicken pox.

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My husband also hurt his ankle and I took a class.
But then after 5 weeks, it was all over and time to get back in the car for the long ride home.

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We stopped in Oklahoma

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to see my parents

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before heading back to the beaches of California.

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It was nice to get home and unpack our things

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but the best part was getting to sleep in our own waterbed.

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The end.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.

After flying from South Korea to Texas for a much needed visit with friends and family, Christmas morning found the kids and I huddled around a small hotel bed. There was paper and ribbon strewn about the floor, and presents set to the side. Daniel had a deck of cards that he bought at the dollar store a few days earlier and he wanted to play. He wanted to try his hand at cheating that is. The deck was marked so he knew what we had. It wasn't really an unfair advantage though, because Asha attempted to lie when she was asked for a card and told Daniel to "Gold-fish." I'm pretty sure he was more annoyed that she couldn't get that it was 'Go Fish' than the fact that she wouldn't produce the card. Ethan was sitting in my lap eating string cheese. He quickly (and loudly) pointed out, "Mom, you have two fives!" Well, who needs a marked deck when you have a helpful brother!

People are fond of saying, 'Enjoy them while they are young, you will miss it when they grow up.' In the every day drudgery and throws of the battle, I am not convinced I will miss them being little. But I do know for sure that I will look back at moments like this with great fondness and know that I did, in fact, enjoy them while they were young.