Jungle Book: The Wrath of Shere Khan

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This whole last week it feels like we have been preparing for our trip to California. I worked a bit on my games, and read a bit, but mostly we have been packing and cleaning and such.

On Wednesday Alison took the girls to the wilderness with Max. Max wanted to play Jungle Book: The Wrath of Shere Khan, and Rea wanted to play Jungle Book: Friendship is Magic. They decided instead to compromise and play Jungle Book: the Power of God. Max was Shere Khan and Rea was Baloo. When Max wanted to pretend to fight Rea said that because she was nice she was stronger than Shere Khan since she had the Power of God.

Saturday morning we begun to do a final cleaning of the house before we left. Andrea was offered money if she helped (a quarter a room.) She ended up earning over a dollar and very much enjoying herself.

Saturday evening we had our brown family dinner, which didn't involve any game playing, but was pretty fun anyway. The best part was not having a long drive to go home (which, with two young children is a big bonus).

On Sunday after church we drove to California for the Poulson family Thanksgiving get together. We drove all night and arrived at about 3:00 am. We listened to Enchanted Glass in audio book form on the way (which was a very fun story).

Monday we slept a lot and recovered from our drive. In the evening we played some games (including Resistance, Forbidden Island, and Moar Moai. It was a good evening. Today we plan on going to Sea World. If anything of interest happens there I will probably write about it in a future post.

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