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In the Mountains! - Thanksgiving 2011

This year for Thanksgiving we went to the Mountains again :)  Our train was 3 hours late leaving... so we spent some time in the train station before getting on the train :)
 BUT...we made it!!  The air was clean & cool, the sky was blue, the water was awesome... it was fun an relaxing! 
 We had lots of opportunities to hang out with friends and play!!  Here is a pic of a fun game of Frisbee Golf :)
 And of course, a Thanksgiving Day Football game!
 Here we are eating our Thanksgiving meal :)  It was super fun :)
 We went on a safari one day.  We were looking for tigers.  We never saw one, but we saw lot of tiger tracks!  In this pic you can see tiger tracks AND peacock tracks! :)
 We stopped at a little store in the middle of the safari (that was surrounded by an electric fence!) and when we got out of our jeeps, the monkeys came running in and looked for things to take!  One monkey even started eating some of the car!
 On our last night we had S'mores!  The folks that were there from the US brought marshmallows, Hershey's Chocolate & Graham Crackers!
 Our train ride home was uneventful!  Last year this same train stopped on the tracks for 4 hours - yuck! and was really late! BUT this year our train was only about 30 minutes late!  The kiddos slept for some of the trip... it was pretty easy!
I have a bunch of pictures posted on Facebook - to see them click HERE!

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Anonymous said…
That train ride looks awesome!! Bunk beds! I think I would fly off of one of those! Looks like a fun time!

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