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Family Vacation

July 7th, 2010 |

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Saturday night my wife and I got back from visiting our children and grand children in Minneapolis. It is a twenty hour drive. Four of our five children were there at least part of the time. Our fifth child is serving a mission in Switzerland for our church, so she could not be there.

Our four grand children were a lot of fun. It was the first time we have seen the baby, now four months old, and weighing a hefty 18 pounds.

Can anyone explain the physics of how, when you are holding a baby in your arms and she falls a sleep, that she seems to almost instantly gain ten pounds?

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It was great fun to be able to play with the grand children. And it was great visiting with our grown children. Everyone enjoyed a visit to the Como Zoo. It is a fairly small zoo. However, it is designed to be educational for children (and adults). The seal lion show was a big hit. So was the lion, tiger, and cougar.

Twelve people together in a student housing apartment can get a little close at times, but we all managed with no problems. Being together, having fun together, making meals together (and cleaning up afterwards), and catching up on what is going on in everyone’s life, is important and good. It is another way of strengthening families.