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Kelly made a peach cobbler.  It turned out really good.  Too good as a matter of fact because she wants to make it again.  LOL

We had a couple of other teenagers stay with us last weekend.  Croquet and water balloon battles were the source of cheap entertainment.

A sudden set of dark clouds passed over... no rain came of it, but that was the day after all the tornados blew through the midwest.

When washing dishes, make sure you're armed with your favorite soda and good music.  It makes the task go by much faster.

Our dozing dog...

Who needs a water cooler when you can gather around the basketball net.

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From Outer Space to Chile... we've visited so many places.

We had some Chinese American cuisine while sitting near the Great Wall...


Studied about the Bush Tailed Rat of Chile, South America.  And we've learned that it's not even a member of the rat family, but it's related to the Chinchillas.  One other strange but neat fact, Degus are used in diabetic testing because they contract diabetes so easily.

Had a good time watching the Survivors in Fiji...


Took a trip through the solar system



and hovered above Mercury.
 

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Self portrait of a goofball.

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A cake box that is.  K is doing Mystery of History for social studies this year and one of her assignments was to make a cake and decorate it to look like Egypt.  She had to make flags of important places along the river Nile.  Her dad and I went out of town for the weekend so she took it to grandmas house.  Grandma ate most of the cake but then later stated she did not.  We quietly crowned her "Queen of Denial."

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And this is what we do on those do nothing kind of days.

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It was a miserably hot day at the zoo, even though it was the middle of September.  It was nice and cool inside the monkey house though...

This Lemur thought I might be able to get her a modeling job. 

 The Giraffes were beautiful as always.

Sadly, this guy was hot as could be.  He put a paper bag over his eyes in hopes of keeping the sun out.