Category: dahlia
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Bored hot gorilla
Video unavailable — originally hosted on Google Video (discontinued 2012). Blogger id 4bf10e9c96865dc3. We watched the gorillas for nearly an hour. The baby gorilla was so bored and her mom had no energy to play with her. I could totally relate. The young gorilla finally discovered that the kids on the other side of the…
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zoo during the heat wave
The zoo was very empty when Dahlia and I went. It was in the 90’s butin the shade it was fine.
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trying to find a cool spot to hang out
Monti attended a choir camp in Seattle during the hottest week of thesummer. I had planned to stay in Seattle between 9 and 3 with Dahliainstead of making the round trip twice each day. We tried rollerblading and bike riding on some paths in the city but it was just too darn hot. Playgrounds were…
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Torture
This series of pictures just breaks my heart. The girls really wanted their ears pierced. After deciding to do it they had to wait a couple of hours so that Claire’s would have 2 employees able to pierce at the same time. I know Monti was just stressed waiting all that time. She decided to…
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Hoh Rain Forest
We hiked through the Hoh rain forest in the Olympic National Park. This area of Washington gets about 12-14 feet of rain. Overall I thought the rain forest in Mt Rainier’s national park was more impressive than this one.
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on the coast
We made it to Washington’s Pacific coast for the afternoon. On our way home Monti collected the remains of a variety of sea creatures while Dahlia enjoyed writing her name.
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Deal with the face painter
The farmer’s market had lots of other vendors. One of them is the face painter lady. Monti drifted on over there and started talking to the lady. I was determined to not give her money for any face painting. I wanted her to stay focused on her goal of selling baked goods. After 5 minutes…
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the Froghopper
I took the girls to the Family Fun Center. They couldn’t get enough ofthe froghopper ride.