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We went to the Poconos to visit Grannie and Grampy.  It was fun to be a tourist in my hometown.  Here is Daphne trying out the binoculars at Big Pocono State Park, atop Camelback Mountain.  Amelia is trying to look back at her through the lenses.

We went to the Crayola Factory in Easton PA.

(Sorry for the smear on the camera lens)  It’s not a real factory but we  had a lot of fun doing all sorts of art with Crayola crayons, markers, paint, chalk, and other things.  Daphne’s highlights were probably finger-painting and painting a plaster fish with watercolors.  Amelia’s highlight was making a stop-motion animation movie with a collection of plastic animals.

We had lots of fun at Grannie and Grampy’s house, of course, too.  The girls swung a couple times a day on this swing set my grandfather/plumber made years ago.  Here is Amelia on a new-ish swing made by Grampy.

Aunt Melissa brought a great frisbee (we had to try hard to throw it wrong) and we played with that every day too.  Daphne had a great motion swinging her whole upper body back and forth before she let go of the frisbee.

I woke up one morning at 6:15am, excited to realize that we could teach Amelia to play the game SORRY!

She played several, and won one time.  Here she is knocking Grannie’s pawn off in a “SORRY!” moment.  She learned many good defensive and offensive maneuvers from the experienced SORRY! players.

We all went out to a PA diner and for icecream on our last night.  A definite treat to end a great visit!