On New Year's morning, we woke up to these bodies
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left over from the night before's revelry. So, we gathered everyone together
for the delayed Thanksgiving Day football game
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which came off with much less enthusiasm than the games when people have
had some sleep the night before. Hopefully we can get
back to the regular schedule next year.
Next, we went to the Dobbs-Allsop's New Year's Open House where Paul Dimaggio
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had a new camera as Adam
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ate and Suzanne discussed with Carol
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the issues involved in husband photography
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while I took not one
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not two
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not three
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but four tries
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to get the New Year's picture of the GittlePeople.
A few days later, Ben and I decided to say good bye to Suzanne and Pam
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and drive South stopping at the Club Diner
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where Ben
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enjoyed the jukebox
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while his bread (which I ate)
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and meatballs
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and my omelet
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and toast
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came before his ice cream
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came for him to eat for dessert
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and then we could record the fancy machine
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in the entryway and head to the bridge to Pennsylvania
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where we entered the aquarium complex
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where the penguins
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were being fed as this man
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told us their story and we noted the indoors
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as we passed the turtle
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and headed for the petting pool
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and then the displays
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before catching up with the parrots
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and then going out for a view of the river
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and Philadelphia across the way. Ben looked through the binoculars
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and saw this
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as this gull
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kept us company.
In the front yard, we met this dinosaur
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whose egg
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would be climbable after we checked out the skeleton
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that let us climb in
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and out
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before Ben took a ride
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to the houses of the three little pigs
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where the story
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was told. After visiting the tea party
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and climbing in
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for a ride
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we stopped to see Goldilocks
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en route to the status of Walt Whitman
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for whom the bridge is named. Ben took these pictures of me at the blank houses
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and this extra one
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and then after seeing the balloon people
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and the ants
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we said good bye to the seals
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and headed home for the new year.