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| The kids' hotel room in Texas. We used hotel points and got two rooms for once. |
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| Eating at Subway, our restaurant of choice on road trips. |
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| Watching a movie on Grandpa's reclining couch. |
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| Nana spent a lot of time cooking good food for us!! |
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| Docks that were destroyed by Katrina. |
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| The remains of a house destroyed in Katrina. |
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| The glass elevator in New Orleans, Jackson Square. |
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| A river boat in New Orleans. |
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| River boat up close. |
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| Some brass performers in New Orleans, they were on every street corner and square. Lots of jazz music and tap dancers. |
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| Burbon Street. |
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| The cool architecture of New Orleans French Quarter. Amazing! |
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| Eating at Gumbo Pot. Everyone's favorite food was the Jambalaya. The shrimp in all the dishes was HUGE! |
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| Christmas Eve at Burger King. |
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| Christmas Eve treats made by Nana. |
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| The master candy maker. So yummy!! |
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| Christmas morning. It was so hard to wait for Grandpa and Nana to wake up!! Too much excitement!!!! |
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| Carving the turkey. |
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| Carving ham. |
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| Christmas dinner. It was so yummy!! The missionaries joined us for the day. It was great to have them! |
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| Touring the USS Alabama, a WWII battleship! |
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| The eating bar inside the battleship. |
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| We've decided that this is the new solution to our bedroom problems. All in one room in a six bed bunk! |
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| And this is our new idea for time outs!! |
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| Big B hugging one of the battleships warheads. |
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| On the front of the battleship. |
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| Look at all of the guns!! Are you kidding me!? |
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| Grandpa and Nana's beautiful house. The bayou is in the backyard. |
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| Deep in flooding country. |
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| Doing a craft with Nana. |
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| Three generations of Vance Men. |
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| Chinese food in our hotel room! |
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| This hotel we got TWO SUITES!! Each suite had a bedroom and a living room couch bed so everyone was in a bed. It was the best hotel experience of our family's life! |
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| The boys playing Xbox in their hotel room. |
