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I have always admired people who have these cool blogs. Actually, I think I have admired they time they have to set them up. Little did I realize that it was so easy. Not that anyone has dropped in my estimation. Now I just feel that this part of life is no longer a mystery to me. I wonder what will move into that spot? Hang gliding?

For the next month my family and I will be in Ecuador attending Spanish school. I have spent the last few weeks planning and packing and arranging and we finally leave today. Why am I staring a blog now??! I was awake at 4am and have time to kill.

Enough of this intro. It is boring anyway.

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