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As promised, Pictures!

Before we left for VA, I was telling her about what we were going to do. She didn't believe me. ( Here's 'that look' )

The first day at grandmas:
( The dress up bin comes out... )

( Silliness with a wig... )

Zoe doesn't have much of a yard regularly, but grandma's got a few acres.... The girls had a great time running around outside and playing in the woods.

( Mom takes the girls for a walk to collect treasures from the woods: )

( Playing on the Swing )

( Trinity and Zoe learn to use the hose... )

When the girls are away, the adults will play:

( Here's me and Trevor whooping Dave and Cecily's butt in Spades: )

The next night we had sparklers, and some little "fireworks" for the kids:

( The 'fireworks' were loud: )

( The sparklers were a hit, though: )

The last day, it was just us and grandma.

( Zoe lines up all her toys and plays teacher: )

( Zoe teaches grandma too: )

( She also got a chance to play with her other new friend, Shaman. )

Then it was off to my parent's house.

( We had some real fireworks, this time: )

( Zoe was a bit scared, at first: )

( Then just trepidatious: )

( Then, she loved them! )

She even asked, at one point, to hold the Roman Candles we were setting off!
( Instead, we gave her more sparklers: )

The next day, my mom and I took Zoe to the Nature Center...

( Zoe was very excited about the snakes: )

( and totally bummed that she couldn't pet them: )

( She could pet the turtles, however: )

( & She got very excited over the Owls and Birds: )

( That IS an Eagle )

( I think he wanted to eat her. )

The Nature Center also had a play area.

( Which had a cave for exploration: )

Then we took her to the neighboring ( park. )

( Then we took her for a ride on the paddleboats: )

( Then we stopped for some HUGE Dora-shaped ice cream: )

After such a long day, she didn't want to go to sleep, but ( curled up in my dad's lap grumpily: )