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The Valley of the Kings

November 14, 15 On the 14th we went to go see the Valley of the Kings. We saw Seti II’s, Tuthmosis III’s, and Mintuhirkopshep’s tombs. The first tomb we saw was Tuthmosis’s. First you had to climb up a long staircase to get to the tomb. Then when you got to the tomb you had […]

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Fez and London

We’ve been so busy traveling that we’ve neglected our blog for the past few weeks. Here are some of Emma’s journal entries to get you all a little up to date. October 24, 25, 26 Today we took a bus to Fez. When we got there we went into the Medina. There were a bunch […]

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Camel Chocolate

Today we left our place and got on some camels for two hours. I can’t remember any of the camel’s names except for moms camel, Jimmy Hendrix. When I first got on the camel I was really worried that I was going to fall off. But after the first minute I was fine. It felt […]

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Four Americans in Paris

When we first started planning this trip, we told the kids they could pick a country to visit for their birthday, and if it could be worked into the itinerary, we would go there. Emma immediately said Paris, and never wavered from that decision. She couldn’t say why, she just thought she would like it. […]

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Sicily

Sicily I am really sorry we haven’t been keeping up on our blog. We decided that we are going to use Sicily as our hanging out area, so we decided to relax and not post much on our blog. In Paris our time was taken up with sightseeing. The computer was used either for booking […]

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Feeding pigeons in San Marcos square

Venice, september 15-16

Today we spent on a train going to Italy. When we got to Venice and settled in. It was kind of late around 7:00, so we went out to dinner. I got a cheese pizza, but I couldn’t get the full sensation of the taste because of my plugged nose. The next day we went […]

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London

August 18 When we arrived in London we went on the underground to our hotel on Belsize park. At the hotel we layed down and went to sleep. Later in the day we met Alex and Julia (our friends that decided to meet us in London). We went to their place and watched television and […]

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Emma and the macaws

Copan Ruinas

August 13 Today we went to the Macaw Mountain Bird Park. It was a 21/2 kilometer walk from town. We had a guide bring us through. The first stop was the parakeets, then scarlet macaws. There was a cage for scarlet macaws that you could walk through. There were also toucans, green macaws, aracaris, owls, […]

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Emma and the Iguanas

Dolphins and Iguanas

Today we went down to watch the dolphin show. The trainers would have the dolphins do tricks. Some of the tricks were: they made the dolphins jump, one of the the trainers would ride the dolphin with both of his feet on each of the dolphins. One of the tricks was he stood on the […]

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Street scene in Granada

July 13th and 14th according to Emma

July 13th Today we went out to the coast. I liked the drive up the most. I saw people people using blades to chop grass instead of lawnmowers. I  also saw a man taming chickens at least it looked like it.  They were standing all around him with one leg on the ground and one […]

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