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Hello. Hey, Boomer. Listeners.

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Welcome from me and Maddie. Hi. We are here

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in Nashville for a very special show for all

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of you. I think some of you know that

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it has been my birthday. Hi, Heidi.

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And I've had such a wonderful time here.

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We had an amazing meal for my birthday because my son

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is quite the chef and we had a beautiful death

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by chocolate cake because Maddie's mother is

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an amazing baker. And then I got

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presents and we played in the pool and we went to a soccer game.

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So we have just had the best time.

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And today hi, Doris. Today I

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want to talk about being a mom and a grandma and traveling

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with your grandchildren. Hi, Gail.

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So being a mom, as you all probably

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agree, is one of the hardest jobs because you're

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trying to raise your children and teach them lessons and have all these

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moral conversations and all that kind of stuff.

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And being a grandmother is

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just a joy because you don't have to do that. You don't have to do

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the parenting right, and we help you, and we just

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get to play and love. So all of that is

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wonderful fun. And one of the ways

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that I started doing that, because it was super important to me

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to be involved in the lives of my grandchildren

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and really get to know them and have them get to know me

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and hopefully be a good role model for them.

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And so one of the things we did early on when they were little is

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we had Camp Way, Way, and Way. Way is what they call me.

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That's short for Wendy. And I

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would have Maddie and her brother Alex one

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summer, or I would have Grayson and Griffin one summer,

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and we would do art projects and we would go on little adventures, and that

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was always fun. But I promised the kids, each one of them,

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when they were somewhere between ten and 14,

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let's say we would go on a trip,

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just the two of us, and we would pick a place to

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go and we would have our own individual adventure.

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And so the first trip was with Grayson,

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my first grandchild, and we

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went to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, and then we

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drove from there to Nashville and we went to the Grand

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Old Opry and we went to the Ryman Auditorium and we

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saw Vince Gill, and that was super fun.

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And my second trip was with Maddie.

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That's me.

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And Maddie and I did a road scholar trip.

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Road Scholar is a travel organization

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for older adults, and they

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also do grandparent trips. And we're going to actually have them as a guest later

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on, I think next month or maybe October.

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But Maddie and I went to Chinkatik Island.

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And you read about Misty of Chinkatik before we went, right?

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Yes. So we did a little preparation for what we were

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going to do there, and it was a science

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kind of a trip. We went to see the Wild horses, but we also

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did a lot of ocean science and bay science and learned

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a lot while we were there. So we're going to talk,

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Maddie and I, about our experience on that trip.

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But first I want to talk about doTERRA,

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the essential oils company. And I

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remember somewhere when we first started talking about doTERRA

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that some of you talked about having experience with

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doTERRA. So if you have had

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doTERRA products, if you would kind of put a little

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comment in the chat and let me know that

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you are familiar with doTERRA, what you liked about it,

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maybe what oils or products you used. I would just like to get a

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little feedback on that. And I wanted to

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point you towards my doTERRA wellness advocate,

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Heidi Woody. And Heidi

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is absolutely committed to

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learning as much as she can and sharing her knowledge and

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wisdom with us about doTERRA and about how

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it can improve our lives. And you can reach

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out to Heidi through texting her

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at that phone number on your screen,

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864-23-8812,

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or you can email her at www.doterra.com

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heidig Woody so

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get in touch with her. There's no commitment.

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Just ask her if you're having aches and pains or you're feeling a little stressed

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or anything like that. Just reach out to Heidi, talk to her

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a little bit about it, see if you think that doTERRA might help.

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I can tell you it has certainly helped me.

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Another thing, labor Day is coming up, right? And so

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I didn't book anybody for Labor Day because I figured everybody off

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doing stuff, but it's the Delta variant, so we may

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not be out doing too much. So I thought

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instead of that, maybe you all would like

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to get together and have like, a little hey Boomer

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Chat. And so I'm thinking we would do it on Zoom

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so we can all get to know who's in our boomer community.

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If you think you might be interested in that and you think it might be

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fun, drop me an email at wendy at Hayboomer

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Biz and I'll compile this little email list, send out

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some proposed times that might be good and

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we could have fun. Just bring your my tie or your iced tea

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or whatever you want to drink that day. And let's have a little

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hey boomer chat for Labor Day,

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okay? You know, I love to see you out

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there. I love having the comments. Hi, Susan.

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And so thank you all who have already commented and said hi

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to us. Continue. That another thing. If you know

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people that you think would enjoy this show, whether they can watch

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live or not, if you put their name in the chat with

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an ampersand, it's going to tag them and let

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right the little A sign, it's going to tag them and let

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them know, oh, I was thinking about you. About you and

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your grandchildren. I bet you would like this show. So go and

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watch it. So go ahead and do that and let your friends know.

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Hi, friends. Are you ready? Yes. Okay.

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We introduce you to the fabulous, amazing Maddie.

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It's nice to meet you guys.

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I said she's my granddaughter. I'm her granddaughter.

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My second granddaughter sickly first.

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She's 13 years old. Maddie was born in DC.

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She has lived in Pennsylvania,

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she has lived in Asheville,

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and now she is living in Nashville.

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And I still can't spell Nashville, right? Because Nashville

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has an e and Nashville does not.

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So confusing. Maddie also has an amazing

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entrepreneurial spirit. Last year

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she had an ice cream subscription

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business, right? She made her own ice cream.

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She sold it by membership to

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neighbors. And she was making ice cream all summer. Right.

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And the best part was I got 50% of the ice cream I made.

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And you made money. Yeah. Hey,

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so that was part of our trip out, too. She was talking to me about

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how she was going to take over Amazon or compete with

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them. You know, we might do that in the future.

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Like that future.

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So anyway, Maddie is a natural leader and she's a friend magnet,

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which helped a lot on this trip because she made friends

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right away. So let me just tell

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you, we left Asheville

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and we had a very long drive to

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get from Asheville to the shore of Maryland

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where Chicatik Island was. So we stopped.

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So Maddie, do you remember where we stopped that first night?

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Wasn't it like a great with the hotel,

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whatever. What was your excitement about seeing that hotel? So I got all

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these butterflies in my stomach and I was like, oh, my goodness, I get to

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unpack all my stuff and then I see this pool

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there and it looked so fun. And they had the best waffles

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in the morning and that was a lot of fun. And we had been stuck

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in a bunch of traffic on the drive, so we got to rest.

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And I was really excited about that, right. Pool.

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Pool was important in that hotel. Before we and we also

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went to the Walmart, remember? And I got a giant ball.

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We kind of played the Walmart game, running around Walmart like, oh, what are.

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We going to do? Some time before it's dinner, we got.

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A giant blue ball that was bouncy and a lot

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of fun. And before we went on to

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Chinkate, because we couldn't check in too early,

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we decided to stop at the Norfolk Naval base.

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And we took a tour of the naval base. That was so

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cool. I mean, there's all these giant things.

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Just giant things. What are those things called?

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Ships. Yes,

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there were ships. And there was this bus and we took this bus and it

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looked so sketchy from the outside because it was. All like dark and black.

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And then we get in, and there's all these cool, giant seats, and it.

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Was so much fun. And cool was the operative

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word because it had been pretty hot that day.

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Yeah, but that was a cool trip to go around the naval base and

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learn about the different ships, destroyers and battleships

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and whatever heck they were. I thought I was playing the game.

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And they let us letting us get pretty close.

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Yeah. And there were the statues with all the labels,

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and then we got to read the labels and learn about it.

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Yeah. I have to say she was a great travel companion because

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Maddie has this brain that is interested in everything. Very curious.

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So we were so excited to finally

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get to Chinkatik, and we left the naval base, and we're

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driving along, and we're driving

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along, and we're driving along, and it's becoming,

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like, less and less populated, and we're, like,

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wonder where we're going here. And the answer was to the middle of

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nowhere.

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It was called the Chinkatik Field Station,

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and it was like a dormitory, kind of a set up.

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What was your first impression when you saw it? Okay, so I got again,

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the butterflies came back, and I wanted them to go away, but at the same

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time, it was kind of tickly. And then we get into this dorm,

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and it's like, there's three beds, so we had an extra bed for storage

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and safe. And I love setting up

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bunks and stuff, so that's always my favorite thing to do at camp, is get

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in and just set up the area. So we set up all of

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our stuff, and then we met a bunch of people in our dorms, and we

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played with the giant blue ball that we got at Walmart,

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and we got introduced to everybody, and then we went and did we

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have lunch? We did. And we had lunch. And we found

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this creepy crawley that you didn't like very much. There was

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a spider. It's like that big.

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It was that big. That big.

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I learned that Maddie was afraid of spiders.

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They're crawling.

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She's like, she says she's setting up. She's unpacking her

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bed, you know, setting every hanging things. Yeah,

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everything is set up so nice. And there's spider girls out. She was like,

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on the bed. Oh, my God, there's a spider.

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It's just a spider. It's tiny, tiny, tiny.

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No, that was it was so big.

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It was like a balloon. It was a balloon.

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So that was kind of funny for us.

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So, yeah, like she said. So we got our room set up,

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and then we met some of the people in the

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dorm. And then Maddie just immediately was,

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like, out in the mix meeting everybody.

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She became, like, the little team leader there.

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And we had our introduction to what

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the events were going to be like at Chinketik. It was

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crazy. It was like, okay, we're going to do this, then this, then this.

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And I was like, whoa. Then when you actually start, it's like,

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okay, yeah. So it was kind of

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cool. Can I see that book? So I

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made a book for us, a memory book. I did this with Grayson also,

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and it tells the story of our

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trip, and it's a great reminder and

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of what we did. So the first day, we headed out

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to the nature center there, and they had

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that touch tank. There were, like, little stingry

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thingies, and I thought horseshoe crabs,

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horse, those creep me out. They're like,

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cool from the outside, but on the inside, it's like it's like the spider again.

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But the person with us from Rhode Scholar

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was explaining all about the different sea creatures, and then they

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had, like, these binoculars look out over the

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water. It was like one giant sort of telescopey thing that

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I loved looking out of, and you could see everything.

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Yeah. And then we got to have a picnic and play in the

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Atlantic, because on Chinkatik Island, you have the

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bay on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other side.

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And we learned that the reason Chinkatik

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Island was made a natural resource

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preserve was because of the wild ponies.

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And there's some discrepancy or disagreement or whatever about

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how they may have ended up there. The exciting story is that

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a shipwreck happened and the ponies all swam to this island

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and then the egrets, right? So there's a lot of these beautiful

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egrets on the island now, but at one time,

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people were hunting those egrets for their feathers,

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and so they created this natural preserve

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area to protect the ponies and to protect the egrets.

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So after that, we headed for ice cream,

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back for dinner, and then, of course, we had to have a campfire s'mores.

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S'mores so good,

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right? You have a day of ice cream, and s'mores doesn't get

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better, and you. Have to take the chocolate off the s'more and then eat

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it separate.

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And one thing that I also always do with my grandchildren

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when we go on these trips I don't know if Griffin is going to go

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along with this is we journal. Yes.

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Right. So that's kind of part of the trip. I journal,

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and my grandchildren will journal.

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And it's a way to have a memory book also

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of what we did.

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I remember this one time where she told me to journal,

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and the only thing I could remember from that day was,

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like, driving around town and seeing this guy, and he

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had this giant backpack on. He was walking his dog,

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and on the top of his backpack, there was a cat. I remember that.

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And I had to draw it in the journal. I remember

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that. That was pretty funny. It was amazing. I would like to teach my

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cat to do that. Just stay on top of there. I know,

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but, like, what happens if they jump down?

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I guess the cat was trained to. Stay up or duct

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taped. Cat tape. Duct taped. Cat taped.

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So the second day, we really kind

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of went out on our adventure. So we started with something called the Godzilla

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line. Do you remember what that was? Yeah.

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Everybody holds hands and lines up. And then a few people take

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this giant net, right? And then they hold it at one

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end of the river downstream. And then the people who are upstream,

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they run down and chase all the fish into the line and

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the shrimp and everything. And then you pull up the god,

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and then there's all these fish in it, right. So it's sane

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netting, it's a way that they used to catch fish. And what we

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did was we would capture some of the ones that

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were caught in the net, and we brought them back to the lab

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so that we could study them and learn about the different

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creatures that would be in the water. And we all had these little,

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like, the magnifying

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glasses hung around our necks. And we would all look at the. Little fishes

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and the crabs. You remember catching the crabs?

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How was that? They were big.

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Yeah, I think you liked netting them.

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Better than yes, I liked netting them, and I liked

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when we got to put them in the bucket and

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then. I'd go, yeah, because she didn't like all the icky stuff you had to

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put on the hook to get the crabs.

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And they were over here like, I'm. Going to get you.

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Okay, so after the same netting, I think that's when

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we went to the mud pits, right? Oh, my goodness.

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Maddie had a question for me about the mud pits. Like, she asked me

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what was one of my what was one of your.

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Favorite experiences, or like, most memorable with

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the grandparents, right? So you've got to understand this was grandparents.

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So we were ages in our 50 plus.

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I think Maya's grandpa was in his eighty s. Yeah.

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And so walking out to the mud pit, I mean, it was

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sucking our feet really hard to walk

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in. And I'm trying to walk

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with some of these grandparents that were not as balanced,

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hoping we weren't going to lose any of them in the mud pit.

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Only a few. Only few.

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It's a little treacherous. But when we got to the mud.

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It was like this giant pit, and I had never seen so much mud.

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And I was so excited because then we got to cover ourselves in mud,

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right? And I was like, OOH, all this essentialness. And I

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covered myself in mud and I put some on my face,

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and all I remember was how bad it smelled.

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It smelled so bad. Picture of

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the girls with the mud all over them. It smelled so bad. It was sulfur,

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kind of. It smelled like rotten eggs.

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And it was gross,

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but fun, but gross when it dried

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and like caked off. It was so good for your skin, my dear.

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Flourishing. Very lovely for the skin.

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The girls loved it. I think I stayed out and

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held on to some of the grandparents. You didn't

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get fully encased in the mud? I did not.

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But it was good for your skin. It was good for your skin and

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it wore them out, I'll tell you, that. Bus ride back to the

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field station that day. Hello, David.

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Hi, David. I think most of the kids

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kind of fell asleep on the bus on the way back. I did.

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You did. So our third

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day was when we were doing a lot

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of the science work in the lab and learning about

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the different creatures that were in the bay and down

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by the bay, down by okay. She's the singer.

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Yeah. So do you remember any of the science

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stuff, what we learned? Yeah, so I remember there being a bunch of samples

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on the big table in the front, and we were all sitting it's kind of

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like a college classroom. It was. And we all

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had magnifying glasses and like what

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are they called? The microscopes. Yes. And we put

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the stuff on, like, a little tray under it, and then we got to

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look at it and it looked crazy weird, like all these little

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tiny and then the person was coming around and

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she was talking to us about what we were seeing. And it was really cool.

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And me and Maya had a lot of fun looking at them.

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I just remember laughing a lot. Yes, there was quite a bit

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of laughing. And because some of the stuff you just put that drop

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of water and you don't think there's anything in it until there

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is. Little squirmy things.

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Weird, but fun. But weird. Yeah,

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mainly weird. And then the final night,

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the counselors or the leaders were so

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excited that they were going to well, first of all, we did the talent show.

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Wait, let's think about that first. So me and Maya decided

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that we were going to do toe painting with ketchup and mustard.

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So we had these two bowls of ketchup and mustard

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in front of us and ketchup

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in the picture. Yeah. You would ask the audience, right? Yeah.

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We said, what should we paint? And we

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painted with our toes.

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Toe painting. Can you see the toe painting?

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Because that was the best thing to do at a talent show. Very creative.

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Oh, yeah. I have to say that was the. Counselors or the leaders did it

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once. Did they? I think they did. Is that where you got the idea?

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You think maybe they did

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something like much more competitive, like a

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bear wearing a halo?

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I don't know. And then the kids would vote on. Oh,

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maybe they did that. They were helping you prepare because there were times

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you were with them and you weren't there.

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Yeah, they gave us grandparents a little break every once in

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a while. Oh, and then I was the host.

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You were the host? I was the host. I had the fake microphone,

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right? Like, no surprise.

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Maddie's the leader. Maddie's the friend magnet.

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Everybody wanted Maddie to be the leader and in charge. Actually,

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I kind of just said that I was.

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Is that what a leader does? Bruce Malcolm, though. Yeah, I'll just

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take over, right? Yeah, you know,

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I think so. Then I got the funny voice and the hello,

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people. So after the talent show,

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as I started to say, the counselors, they put together

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this fabulous meal for us.

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They did a low country boil. We were in the

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eastern shore of Maryland, right, with these great crabs.

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And so they did a low country boil. And they were so excited.

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Everything spread out with the brown paper on the tables.

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And they were going to show us how to pick crabs.

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Okay, so I have never liked seafood. So they tell us

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to open up the crabs and then there's going to be mustard in it,

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right? So I open it. There's this brown squishy stuff. And I

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was like, oh, no. So then on the drive home, I texted my parents

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and I was like, mom, dad, I am now vegetarian. She did.

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And I was vegetarian for six months.

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Not just seafood. She gave up all meat for a while because of

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that one experience with picking crabs.

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I loved it. On the other hand, everybody did. People were just eating

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the crabs all around me. And I was like, oh, my goodness Grish. And it

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was fortunately, there was corn, of course, and potatoes and so other things that

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she could eat. But she was not enthralled.

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They weren't dead. They were dead. They were like

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there with their claws. They're going to pinch your mouth.

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No, the Maryland crabs are some of the best.

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Let's see. In the fall, I'm going to

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take Griffin to Atlanta. Oh, yeah.

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Griffin and I got delayed on our trip because of COVID so we're replanning.

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So we're going to go to Atlanta. And then next year is the trip with

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your brother. He's so excited. Do you have

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any advice for him?

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Mainly just to not freak out. He gets homesick,

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but he won't admit that he's homesick. Like, you'll know that he's

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upset, but he won't tell you that he's upset.

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So as long as he stays open,

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then he makes a lot of friends. Because I think

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the main thing is making friends. As long as he makes friends, as long

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as he is good with you, then he'll

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be perfectly fine. He loves trips. He loves getting

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out of the house. He does love travel. You guys are both good travelers.

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And I'm sure we will have a few laps of our own and

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we'll work together to kick the trip. He's going to love it.

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He's going to love it. He has his mind set on the grand canyon.

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Oh, really? Well, we may have to talk that through because that

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was also going to be a family trip for your family.

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There are other national parks we'll have to talk about that.

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We'll see. So did you have some questions for me?

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Yes, I did. What inspired you to start taking

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your grandkids on trips and why at the age you

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picked? And I love that question.

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And like I said,

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I love visiting the families and everybody's excited

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and talking, and we're all interacting, but to have

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that one on one time,

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I'm going to cry. To have that one on one time with each

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of my grandchildren separately, to get to know them,

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to watch them and their excitement, to live it

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through their eyes, to have that time.

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And I picked the ages, Maddie,

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like, between ten and 13, typically,

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because you're young enough that it's

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still cool to go out and be with your grandparents,

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right. But you're old enough that

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it's not too scary to leave.

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You don't need a whole lot of care.

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So it's a good age between ten and 13

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to do it, and it's just been the best thing.

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I have loved it. What was it like going for the first time

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with Grayson? Like, were you nervous? Were you scared?

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I think she was a little nervous, I would imagine.

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Yeah, I think she was a little nervous, but she

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was great, like you, because in the car, we had

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great conversations. I mean, Maddie was telling

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me about all her business ideas, and like I

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said, she's going to take over the Amazon market,

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not totally take over multibillion.

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Grayson was into the women's soccer. Oh,

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yeah, right. So she was naming all of the women's soccer team

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players.

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Maddie's family and Grayson's family, they try to keep

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a very healthy, nice meal balance and

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all of that. Well, when we're on the road,

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right, we're eating at the Waffle House or Kentucky Fried Chicken. I had Waffle

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House for the first time, and it still remains the first time.

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So, yes, they get to have travel food when they're with me,

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but I don't think I was really nervous. I was so excited

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to go. So was I. I was like, whoa, junk food. Yay.

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Junk food. What else?

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What were some of your favorite

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moments? I asked you about it with the grandparents.

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Do you remember any with you and me?

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Oh, yeah. So many favorite moments.

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I think just driving out the first time,

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I was like, okay, so this is a long drive.

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What are we going to talk about? We talked. We talked

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and talked. I know. It was so fun. We had

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so much to talk about. It was really refreshing.

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Refreshing? Well, because the

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parents are like, yup while they're reading the magazine,

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and we're just sitting here on the six hour car ride just talking.

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We had so much fun, and we

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were silly. And I think

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watching you. I didn't know how much you

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just gravitated and people gravitated to you. I didn't

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know that because when I would visit, I'm usually with your family.

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Yeah, right. And to see her just she kind

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of hurted people towards her. She didn't hurt her,

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but like a people hurt her. People hurt her. I know. They were

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climbing trees and they were like, oh, is Maddie there? Can Maddie come play?

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Yeah. She was such a natural leader. I loved watching. It was just

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a lot of fun. I think that if you have fun, everyone around you has

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fun. It's like the mood. They explain this

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at camp to us, but it's like happiness is like glitter. Once glitter

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is out, it's out, and it can't come back in, which can be very

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annoying because then it's in your carpets.

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But at the same time, you can also throw

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it. You can throw the glitter everywhere and

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it's sparkly. Yeah. So I

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am telling you, I would highly recommend traveling with your grandchildren

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and getting to know them. It is

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so much fun. And building those memories,

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like, that's going to be there forever. Oh, yeah.

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She has the book, the picture book. She has her

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journal. If she doesn't lose it. No, I still have it.

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It is in my bookshelves. When we got

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to the hotel, what were some of your first thoughts?

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Like, were you excited or were you like,

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oh, man, look at this hotel. I was glad to be there.

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I mean, it was a long drive.

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It was a long drive, a tiring drive,

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because we had all that delay, the big backup that we ran

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into. So I was just glad to be there and

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let you play in the pool. And I could chill for a few minutes.

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Chill being, again, the keyword, because it

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was hot or car. Then we got the pool and

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we got to chill. Right. We got to have dinner and rest and get

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ready for any waffles. I eat waffles the next morning before

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we went to the naval base. Oh, yeah.

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That was a lot of fun. So would you recommend traveling

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with grandparents to your friends? I would give it

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six stars. Because six out

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of ten. Five. Six out of five,

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which is like. Twelve out of ten.

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Okay. And then because you get to

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be with your grandparents, and you don't get to do that a ton,

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especially when they live in a whole nother state. And so

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we got to connect a lot. And our room was super

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cool, minus the big giant spider.

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Yeah. And it wasn't fancy.

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It was a dorm. Yeah. Right? So we had our room. We had to share

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the shower and a bath and all, but it was. Still a lot of fun,

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like, waking up and being like, oh, my goodness, what are we going to do

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today? Are we going to see more wild horses? Are we going to go.

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Into town and see a lighthouse and get souvenirs and

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it was so much fun. Hey, we didn't even talk about the lighthouse,

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did we? Oh, no. So one day, it was a free day,

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and me and my friend Isabelle, we went into

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town with her. With her grandmother?

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No, we just walked out by themselves? Yeah. She gave me

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the car keys. I was gone.

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And then we went to the lighthouse.

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And then we went souvenir shopping, and we spent

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30 minutes and I spent 30 minutes at the store. And I bought three

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magnets. You have to have magnets of

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your trip. Oh, yeah. Super important to have magnets.

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Right, for your refrigerator. And I really wanted this purse,

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but I didn't get the purse.

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But you got something for Mom, dad and Alex, the magnets. That's right.

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Super important magnets. And I picked each magnet

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individually because it looked like the mom, the son and the dad.

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How thoughtful. Yeah.

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And I think when we came home, I think you were ready to be home.

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Yeah. There was no giant spiders

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in my room. There was not a moth flying around.

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There was a moth, too, guys. It was real scary.

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It was buggy. It was buggy. There were two.

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It was crazy. But,

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you know, it was a great time. We thoroughly

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enjoyed it. We were ready to come home. We were both tired. We were both

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tired. Really good showers. So much fun. And we couldn't wait to tell mom

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and dad about all we had to tell him everything and

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have a good dinner. Oh, yeah. We knew dad would cook us a good dinner

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that night. Yeah. I love

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you guys, too.

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So that's the takeaways.

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Travel with your grandkids. Make it a special time.

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It doesn't have to be fancy. I hear people say

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they take them anywhere in the world. That's fine if that's what you want to

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do, but make it special and make it about them.

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And them.

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Thank you. What? People are saying you are the

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most inspirational guest yet. I'm blushing.

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But you can't see because there's a white light.

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So let me tell you about next week's guest,

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who also, I think is going to be inspiring.

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All right, so next week's guest, I was

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introduced to him. His name is. The future is bright with Wendy

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and her grandchildren. Thank you, Susan. She has a lot of them.

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So, anyway, next week's guest I was introduced to by

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a friend. He is a retired journalist with

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the Detroit Free Press, and he recently wrote a book

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he recently wrote a book about oh,

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wait, bruce wants to hear more about the ice cream subscription. We'll tell you in

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a second, Bruce. Anyway, John Gallagher recently wrote

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a book called The Irishman and Detroit.

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And it's a great story about two people that

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well, two people, the man who is

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a boomer and Detroit, who were both down on their

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luck. I mean, certainly you've heard about all of the hard times

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Detroit has had. So this is kind of a comeback

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story for both Detroit and this

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gentleman and entrepreneurship in Detroit.

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It's a fascinating read. Please join me next week.

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Bruce wants to get your ice cream subscription company on Shark

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Tank. Well, it all started with one Borg summer,

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and I was like, man, we have nothing to do. And my

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mom was like, I forgot. I bought an ice cream maker

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a few years to one year ago, and we never used

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it. So I was like, oh, my goodness. What if I sold ice

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cream to our street? You and your

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dad made a business plan? My dad made me write a whole outline,

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and I had to make a logo and everything. So then

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we printed out the what. Did you call it? Funny koalas homemade

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ice cream. Homemade gourmet. Yeah,

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because it was super fancy. My favorite flavor I made was coffee

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Oreo. That was really good.

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A Christmas special. And then I passed

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out all the flyers, and the emails came in,

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and I was like, oh, my goodness. I didn't actually realize I said, have to

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work. I thought I could just eat ice cream. So then I made the

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ice cream, and my brother, he would give them to people,

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and I paid him by giving him ice cream.

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So he basically just got to lick the bowl, which was like three servings of

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ice cream. And then we filled up these little containers,

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and we biked really fast down the street so it wouldn't melt.

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And we knocked on people's door, and we stood there like, come on, come on,

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come on. Because we didn't want it to melt, right? So they

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opened the door, and we're like, here's your ice cream. They were like, thanks.

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Here's your money. And we're like, thanks. And then I got this jar,

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and we made some money, and it was a lot of fun. Shark Tank.

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Here we go. All right, so anyway,

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thank you for tuning in today, Bruce. I think we'll

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work on her presentation, but she may get

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there. She may get there.

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Support Heidi, Woody, and doTERRA, go ahead and

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contact her and let her know what ails

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you and see if there's something that they can do that can help.

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Let me know if you would like to whoops that's? The website

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email me. Let me know if you would like to join us

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for our Labor Day zoom, where we're going to kick back with

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our chill drinks and just kind of get to know each other and chat about

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whatever we want to chat about. So drop me

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an email. I'll put you on the list, and we will cover

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that. And I think that's all

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I want to hello, Anne.

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Whoops. I need to take that off. Oh, hi, Anne. Yeah,

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I wanted to remind you where did my cursor go?

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That I always like

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to leave my show with this note. Maddie, you are

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never too old. Wait to set another

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goal or dream a new dream. Got it?

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So keep dreaming. Got it. Come back next week.

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Join us. I love you all. My name

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is Wendy Green. This is Maddie, the reporter.