good times in coldwater/colon

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sometimes tradition just hits the spot.

we've been going to visit aunt lill & see the magic festival in colon (the magic capital of the world) since i was 8 months old. a lot has changed since then...but at the same time, it hasn't. yes, we used to stay for a little bit longer (thank you football camp) ...but we still managed to pack a whole lot of tradition into 3 days. traditions like getting ice cream at scoops, eating corn on the cob, shopping at the outlet mall in indiana (i got lots of new fun papers at the scrapbook store. really feeling yellow & green), swimming, tanning (ok... not so much), lighting off fireworks/parachutes, making a bonfire, posing for pictures at the colon sign, stalking lark the clown, sitting on the top row in section f (& getting there obnoxiously early in order to get said top row) ...

in the end, it is just feels really good to depart from the non-stop everyday (& internet connection), and spend time with aunt lill ...i wish we were able to do it more often.

...10 more days