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We all wait for Kurt to return from Summer Camp in California
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And here is our boy!
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NO Kisses MOM!!!
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Eve and Grace are SO glad to have Kurtie home!
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Our First "educational" experience in Atlanta
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We visit the Coke Museum... and learn what marketing is all about!
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First Stop is the Coke Museum in Altanta
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Kurt trys EVERYTHING!
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Eve is a good experimentor!!!!
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Nope.... didn't like that one!
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Umm Umm Good
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The girls examine the coke machines of the future!
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Jep.... he likes it all!
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Can you believe all the different types of soda that Coke manufactures... all over the world.
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A Still photo!
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We learned that Coke is the world's greatest marketing company!!
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Size matters
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Next we visit Perry, Georgia
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Perry is a sweet town in the middle of Peach Country!
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Our Georgia Peaches
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We visit the Lane Packaging Company to learn about Peaches
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The Packaging Company owns it's own semi-automated plant and grows it's own peaches
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Lane Peach Trees!!
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And On to the Harriet Tubman Museum in Macon, Georgia
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We thought we were going to a museum about Harriet Tubman..... wrong!
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But, we did learn all about African Music and art
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Drum Girl
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Grace really inspects all the musical instruments
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Another homeschool trip to Westville, Georgia
(where it's always 1820!)
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Welcome to Westville!
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Yum, we snack on real ginger bread from a hearth fire!!
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Christa learns to work the bellows
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Westville has a courtroom set up from the 1820's .... Eve barely makes it over the judges desk!
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Judge Kurt Gefke ... all rise!
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And the prisoner enters!
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The well... man it's deep down there!
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The ironsmith's work area!
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Eve really wants to see too!!
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Kurt gets a try at the work of an apprentice!
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As we drive, we stop in a cotton field ... more homeschool
fun!
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Picking cotton is hard work.... we had no idea the pain involved!
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Grace learns that cotton hurts her fingers... the seed pod is very sharp.
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Beauty in the fields
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We also do castings of paw prints we find in the field.
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As we spend time in the field, the farmer stops by and teaches us about cotton farming.
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Mom.... I am REALLY glad I don't have to do this for a living!
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Our last stop in Georgia...
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