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Hooray for my last blog! Boohoo for my last blog! Yeah! Finally we got home after the long drive through Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, and finally, Missouri and Arkansas.
An overview of the longest time I've ever been away from home:
We started on August 12th, 2006 (no duh for 2006 part) and we got home on September 9th, 2006, almost a month in a 150 square foot RV (yikes). Believe it or not, there are a lot of things that I didn't tell all you fans about. First, sleeping in the same bed as Rachel is a BIG pain. Before she goes into deep sleep, she tries to get her feet under my legs and I'm almost having to slap them or something. I was SO glad when I got to sleep in my own bed. Also, (I forgot to write about this) in Vermont before the Ben & Jerry Factory Tour, we went to the Great Vermont Corn Maze. We thought it would be just your average 15-minute maze, but it turned out to be HUGE, the average time was at least 3 hours! We didn't have enough time for the big maze, but luckily they had LOTS of other stuff! First we did a smaller (make that 7 times smaller) maze that was right next to the Big Maze. Then we went over to some Box Mazes. They are like tiny mazes that you can see over and look super easy, but on the first maze, you could only take right turns. On the second one, you had to start out with a right turn, and then take a left, then right, then left, etc. THEN we went to the Barnyard Nature Center, and under it were some "gopher tunnels" that you could crawl through. Rachel, Lena and I all had a blast in the tunnels! Definitely one of the highlights of the trip.
I've never been away from home so long, but I have been farther away then Canada. That was in Ireland. Plus I've gone to Mexico. Don't say I'm not a well-traveled young man! Canada definitely gets the reward for the most activities, and it was FUN!!!! Oh yeah!

List of things we did in chronological order:
Saw the St. Louis Arch in St. Louis, Missouri
Visited the Columbus Zoo, Columbus, Ohio
Ate our first pizza in North East, Pennsylvania (I liked that)
Visited Niagara Falls in Niagara Falls, New York
Uncle Sam Boat Tours in Alexandria Bay, New York
Visited a Nature Center in New York
Crossed into Canada!
Visited Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Hiked in Mt. Albert Park, Quebec
Got to Tete d'Indien
Ride our bikes in Forillon National Park to a lighthouse
Went to Bonaventure Island to look at the Gannets and hike
Visited a Fromajerie and hiked to a place called Emerald Pool
Left Tete d'Indien
Visited Miguasha Natural History Museum in Quebec
Visited a nature center in New Brunswick
Crossed into Prince Edward Island (P.E.I. for short)
Visited a castle-model-park thing (it was cool)
Bikeride on P.E.I
Visited Lucy Maud Montgomery's house (she wrote Anne of Green Gables)
Looked for fossils in Novia Scotia on the Bay of Fundy
Visited the Hopewell Rocks, home of the world's highest tides, in New Brunswick
Whalewatch in the Bay of Fundy
Crossed back into the U.S.A.
Visited Acadia National Park, Maine
Went to Mt. Washington, New Hampshire
Maple sugar and syrup factory in Vermont
Great Corn Maze, Vermont
Ben & Jerry's Factory Tour, Vermont
Visited Aunt Jessie and Aunt Milly in Connecticut
Went to Barnes & Noble booksellers and bought a book
Took the X Cave tour in Kentucky
Ate at Lambert's Cafe, home of the world's only thrown rolls!
Got home...Yippee!!!!!

The trip was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!