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PA to GA!

With a week off last week and 22 inches of NJ snow we thought, "What better time to head south?". So that's what we did. We got to see 10 states and the District of Columbia! Needless to say we covered a lot of ground, making it all the way to Atlanta before coming back. We were so excited to spend some time with some great friends along the way and see some very cool sights and scenery including Gettysburg, PA, mountains (I forget how much I miss them until I see them again), the Georgia Aquarium, Coca Cola World in Atlanta, the Atlanta temple, and a cold Clemson baseball game. Excuse me, to be true to local culture, being in South Carolina it was not a baseball game that we went to. Rather, we went to a baiseboul gaime where we gout ta sie the Taigas baet USC! I loved hearing the accents!

These Are A Few of Ashlynn's Favorite Things

As Ashlynn has begun to make her likes and dislikes very much known since my last post, let me post some pictures and videos of some things that she loves:

Snow -




All of the above was from the first storm of about 13 inches about 3 weeks ago. A second, and even bigger one, came through just over a week ago leaving us 22 inches! Crazy for Manhattan! Those actually made February the snowiest month in New York City history. Here's what we were left with during the second storm. (By the way, here's our new car, too):


(It's sad, to me, that my daughter has developed to habit to, whenever we walk outside, immediately shrug her shoulders and say "cold!". It's about time we move south.)

Golf -

(She just got these a few days ago and has hardly put them down since then. This makes daddy very happy!!!)

Fish -




Feeding the duckies -


And, my favorite, dancing -


But there is one thing that she's not so fond of...


The giant balloons at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. What?!?!?! What kid doesn’t love those? I‘ve dreamt of seeing the parade since I was a kid so I took Ashlynn to see it a few months ago. We had an AWESOME location - 42nd and Broadway in Times Square - from which we could see everything. Noisy concourses of fatiguing bands; no problem. Weird looking, unnecessarily tall clowns; great. A truly endless crowd of coffee-drunken New Yorkers; all the more people to convince how cute I am. Colorful flying personified animals; SCARY! Okay, when I put it that way, flying personified animals don’t sound so cute. Of course, a giant green ogre flying through Times Square sounds like a sight that could leave me in tears as well. But I thought she would like it. Instead she cried at every...



single...



one...



at least for an hour. Well at least she enjoyed the rest of the parade.



(I don't think she had seen Horton yet at this point)