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Amanda on September 5th, 2011

Mike promised Ian roughly a year ago that he’d take Ian fishing after he turned 5.  In true 5 year old fashion, Ian needed an exact date so Mike told him May 1st.  Needless to say, May 1st came and went without fishing.  In fact, we didn’t get around to going fishing until July 30th! […]

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Amanda on September 2nd, 2011

What bad Buffalonians we are!  The Anchor Bar, in downtown Buffalo, claims to be the birthplace of the chicken wing and has world famous wings….yet, I’d never gone before and Mike (a born and bred Buffalonian) had only gone one time.  What kind of people are we?!?!?!  LOL Well, we ended that drought in July […]

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Amanda on September 1st, 2011

The next day (7/17), the Alts arrived in Muncie.  Whenever we get everyone together, I usually stop taking pictures.  There are typically way too many people in any given space and my camera is never nearby.  On this day, we went to a cookout at the Wagner’s house.  I’m not exaggerating when I say there […]

Continue reading about Indiana Vacation, Day 5-7: The Rest of Vacation

We spent our days in Muncie doing our normal routine: errands and/or visiting in the morning, lunch out, go to the nursing home to visit Grammy, naps spent either at the hotel or at someone’s house, then the evening spent visiting more people. Day 4 of the trip was our wedding anniversary.  We celebrated by […]

Continue reading about Indiana Vacation, Day 4: Happy Anniversary, Muncie Dragway

We started our third day of vacation off a little bit slower.  We didn’t get to bed until 11pm the night before and we had a hotel room to pack up.  After we all got ready, ate a light breakfast, and packed our belongings in our car, we headed towards the Indianapolis Zoo. The zoo […]

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