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| Perhaps the most adventurous thing we did during the visit was to take a hike up to what the boys call the old fort. |
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| We start out on a little path |
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| Pass a pig farm (Abigail was not impressed with the smell) |
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| And then up, up, up |
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| Into the forest |
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| We had a picnic up there |
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| It is part natural rock formations like the Stone Forest and part man-made wall from a while ago |
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| Boys like to climb trees and scare Grandma |
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| The "path" was so overgrown in parts that I don't think we would have ever found it if Nate and the boys hadn't been that way before. |
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| Abigail stopping to pick pink flowers |
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| Always her favorite part |
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| The scenery around here is really beautiful |
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| We took a girls shopping trip. Nate graciously drove us around on our one estrogen fest. |
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| Pea snacks anyone? |
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| Settling up at the 2 kuai store |
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| Grandpa John helped Andrew put together his very complicated (很复杂, hěn fùzá) wooden dragon. |
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| Andrew got the dragon riding knight put together. |
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| This complicated project took several days with glue drying in between to complete. |
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| All together and ready for paint. I don't think this one would ever have gotten put together without Grandpa. |
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| Grandma brought some other wooden things for the kids to paint |
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| Everyone painting and listening to the Knight's Castle. The kids thought this book was so funny, and they liked having the characters from Ivanhoe show up in another book. |
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| Completed painting projects. These are Aaron's. He put a lot more work into them than I expected. He mixed the colors for the brown and orange and added a Jonah into the great fish. |
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| This is Andrew's red and black shell |
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| Alexander's green guys |
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| Abigail's pinky/purpley butterflies |
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| And of course Andrew's main project the red and black dragon with rider |
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