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I took a road trip through last Christmas holidays.

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I took a road trip through last Christmas holidays.

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I went to many National parks with my family. It took 15 days and about 5800 miles. It was very long distance drive but I was enjoyed.

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I went to see Georgia Aquarium with my family last year.It was a fantastic road trip.

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I went to Disney World with my dad, mom, big sister and little sister at last winter holiday. It was great!!!

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I went an aquarium. I got to play all day! There were two buildings.we went to the river habitat first. I saw a school of fish and I saw a crocodile! Then I went to touch a snake! And I went to the next building it was about the ocean habitat. I saw sharks, pig nosed turtles and penguins. I got to touch the water, too and I got to touch a ray! And I saw pitcher plants and butterflies, finally we went home!!!

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Last winter, I and my family (mom,dad,and my little sister)went to U.S.space Rocket center. It was one and half hour drive.I played games with my little sister in the car.In the Rocket center we saw many things Rockets,their parts.We clicked many pictures there. I did rock climbing and rides also. I went to many simulators. I enjoyed there alot.

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A couple of years ago I when to Atlanta, Georgia. I got to visit the Coca Cola Factory there.(It was a 10 hour drive)

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Explore Inside the World of Coca-Cola, Atlanta

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I went to Paris! I saw the Eiffel Tower and triumphal arch.

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I went to lego land with my mom and built a lot! There were lots of toys.

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I went to lego land with my mom and built a lot! There were lots of toys.

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Last fall break I went to Georgia with my mom, dad, brother, grandma, and grandpa. I saw
dolphins they splash  water
on me . And  it is so crazy. I saw
whale they are  dancing in  the
water. And also we saw sealions
they are playing in the water.
And also we saw sea otters
they are playing in the ocean voyager. I saw some penguins play
happily in the water. And I also saw
some  different colors of fish and
sharks. I also saw Atlanta downtown its very huge. We also visited  coke factory. It was an amazing trip with my  family.
--Aaganya Nagireddy.

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My trip to Gatlinburg was remarkable, especially when I got a teddy bear.

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In January me and my family went to biltmore. We had a lots of fun there we had seen enormous historic museum house.we had seen lots of things and learnt the history of George Vanderbilt.
Also had seen a farm and farm animals.There we stayed in big hotel there i enjoyed swimming with my mom and took a lots of pics there and most important thing is i celebrated my mom and dad's 10th wedding anniversary.It was awesome trip i won't forget that trip in my life.

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Road trip around america:I daho wyoming nevada nigara falls and tecnecaly all the states in the west.

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Road trip around america:I daho wyoming nevada nigara falls and tecnecaly all the states in the west.

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That summer was the best ever , my favorite part was Zion when we did a 5 mile hike in the mountains.

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i went to helen keller birth place .

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An international icon well-known for her advocacy of issues relevant to blind and/or deaf people, Helen Keller was born at Ivy Green Tuscumbia Alabama. The birthplace of Helen Keller in the former family home of the Kellers, has been turned into a museum celebrating the accomplishments of Helen Keller. When you visit Ivy Green Tuscumbia AL, you learn lots of facts about Helen Keller as well as see lots of images of Helen Keller. In the summer you have a production of the Miracle Worker play in the back garden. Ivy Green really is a shrine to this remarkable woman and definitely worth a detour if you are on a road trip anywhere near North Alabama.

Helen Keller's Birthplace, Ivy Green was established in 1820 by her grandparents who came to Alabama from Virginia. They laid claim to 640 acres (a square mile) which is how land was partitioned out in the Alabama Territory at the time.

The plantation was called Ivy Green because English ivy grew on part of the house. Like other plantations in the area, Ivy Green grew cotton, corn and enough other products to be self-sufficient.

Ivy Green itself is a white clapboard house which was not damaged by the American Civil War. During the Civil War, Ivy Green was used as a hospital.

There are four rooms on the ground floor and two bedrooms and a box room upstairs. For a fairly wealthy family, I was a little surprised at how small the house was. The Kellers had five kids and an elderly aunt in a house with two bedrooms? It really shows how much space we require nowadays.

Where is the kitchen? Outside in a separate building. There is a path from the back door leading to the kitchen building. Pre-civil war, this cook's house and the plantation would have been worked by the enslaved.

Did you know? The path connecting the separate kitchen to the main house is called a whistle walk because the enslaved were expected to whistle when they carried the cooked food to the dining room. The whistling was a means to ensure no food was eaten along the way.

Next door to Ivy Green there is a smaller cottage which was the actual Helen Keller's birthplace. Originally this cottage was where the plantation's books were kept. When Mr. Keller remarried, the main house was getting crowded so the cottage was turned into a bridal suite for him and his second wife.

Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan eventually used this smaller cottage as a school room. Back in the day it didn't seem strange to have the school also be the birthplace of Helen Keller.

Although the grounds of Ivy Green have now been reduced to 10 acres, there is still plenty of room for visitors. There is an ice house which was reconstructed in 2009. In Helen's time, Captain Keller would travel the four miles to the Tennessee River in winter to harvest ice for the summer months.The ice would have been hauled to the ice house by horse and wagon.

The gardens at Ivy Green have been planted and maintained in keeping with Helen Keller's memories from her books. There is a charming kitchen garden and a rose garden as well as the original large trees providing shade against the Alabama heat.

Among the grounds, there is a walkway with tributes from various countries as well as a Lions Club International fountain. The back of the house is set up as a theatre for summer showings of The Miracle Worker play in June and July.

Helen Keller's Birthplace

On your visit you learn lots of fun facts about Helen Keller and Helen Keller's birthplace. There is a self-guided tour but the docents are lovely and happy to chat with you. They love to regale children with facts about Helen Keller for kids.

Although there are still Kellers left,, Ivy Green is currently owned and operated by a charitable foundation dedicated to the story of Helen Keller. The birth place of Helen Keller is located on the National Register of Historic Places.

The birthplace of Helen Keller was bought in 1951 by the state of Alabama. Helen Keller, herself, came to the opening of Ivy Green as a museum in 1954.

The rooms at Ivy Green are filled with photographs and mementos of Hellen Keller. One room is filled with her Braille books and her Braille typewriter. There is even a machine that shows how to punch holes for Braille by hand.

NB Some of the archival information related to Helen Keller was held at the American Foundation for the Blind which had offices in the Twin Towers. These archives were destroyed during the 9/11 attacks on New York.

Ivy Green still has much of the original furniture from the Kellers' time at the house. Everyday items and heirlooms used by the Kellers is still in evidence such as a a silver service tea set that is 200 years old and came from England. In addition, there is still clothing worn by Helen Keller and her mother left at Ivy Green.

10 Facts About Helen Keller

Born on June 27, 1880, Helen Adams Keller was the first child of Confederate Captain Arthur Keller and his second wife, Kate Adams.

Helen Keller's family was fairly illustrious. A Southern belle from Memphis Tennessee, Kate Adams was a descendant of John Adams, the second president of the USA. Ironically, Kate Adams was also the daughter of a Confederate general. Helen Keller was also descended from an early governor of Virginia.

Helen Keller was one of 5 children. She had two older half-brothers from her father's first marriage. She also had a sister and a brother younger than her.

At 19 months old, Helen Keller contracted an illness (which could have been scarlet fever or meningitis) which left her blind and deaf.

Helen's behaviour was totally out of control at Ivy Green. For example, she locked her mother in a closet just because she could. Her doting parents let her have her tantrums. She was friendly with the African-American cooks' child who was about the same age and they had a sort of secret language.

Things came to a head though when her mother had her baby sister when Helen was six years old. The family were worried that Helen would hurt inadvertently hurt her sister.

When she was six years old, her parents took her to see Dr. Alexander Graham Bell to see if he could help their child. He suggested getting a teacher from the Perkins School of the Blind to help young Helen.

Did you know? Although Alexander Graham Bell is famous for inventing the telephone, he considered himself first and foremost a teacher of the deaf.

The Kellers settled on Anne Sullivan to work with the young Helen Keller at the suggestion of the director of the Perkins School For The Blind.

Anne Sullivan's Story:

Frankly, Anne Sullivan had limited choices so leaving Boston for the back of beyond Alabama was a good option for her. Anne's family had been poor Irish potato farmers who left Ireland during the Great Famine. After her mother died, her father abandoned her and her brother to a poorhouse when she was 10 years old. She managed to get to Perkins School for the Blind because a childhood infection left her legally blind.

The Kellers offered Anne Sullivan $25/month and room and board at Ivy Green for the education of Helen Keller. In true Yankee fashion, Anne Sullivan gave the Kellers grief about the Civil War and their previous ownership of enslaved people. Yet, she formed a close and loving bond with Helen Keller.

As documented in the Miracle Worker play, Helen Keller initially wanted a governess as much as the Sound of Music kids wanted theirs. With persistence Anne Sullivan was able to control Helen's tantrums and teach her sign language and braille.

Ivy Green is known as Helen Keller's birthplace because she left the family home in 1888 to attend Perkins School For the Blind in Boston. Her governess Anne Sullivan accompanied Helen for the rest of Anne's life. In addition to Perkins, Helen went to schools in New York and Massachusetts before attending Radcliffe for university.

Accomplishments of Helen Keller

The accomplishments of Helen Keller are many. Here are some facts about Helen Keller and what she was able to achieve despite her disabilities:

Helen Keller was the first deaf blind person to have a college degree. in 1904, she graduated from Radcliffe College (then the sister school to boys-only Harvard College) in 4 years with a degree AND honours.

Helen Keller dedicated her life to improving the lives of blind and deaf/blind people all over the world. She wrote 12 published books and lectured in more than 25 countries.

Helen Keller was an activist for many different social causes such as women's rights and promotion of birth control. She was a founding member of the ACLU (a non-profit organisation that provides legal representation for people whose civil liberties are at risk).

After the American Association for the Blind was founded in 1921, Helen Keller used her celebrity status to raise awareness of, and funds for, the organisation.

Wow! Helen Keller really was a celebrity. She was invited to the White House to meet every president from Cleveland to Johnson. She was friends with many famous people from different walks of life fro inventor Alexander Graham Bell to financier John D. Rockefeller.

In addition to supporting liberal causes, Helen Keller was also an active socialist. A member of the socialist party, she advocated for workers' rights. (Anne Sullivan's husband John Macy was also a committed socialist).

In 1964 Helen Keller received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Johnson.

Famous Quotes Helen Keller

With so many written works and lectures to her name, there are plenty of famous quotes from Helen Keller. Here are some of my favourite quotations of Helen Keller:

The only thing being worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. The highest result of education is tolerance. Life is either a great adventure or nothing. What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

These quotes of Helen Keller show how she changed adversity into a positive part of her life.

The Miracle Worker Play

The Miracle Worker play is based on The Story of My Life, Helen Keller's autobiography.

Did you know? The Miracle Worker was the nickname given to Anne Sullivan by Mark Twain for the impressive work she did turning a 6 year old hellion into an accomplished and educated woman.

Written by William Gibson, the Miracle Worker play has been performed every June and July on a stage set up in the garden of Ivy Green for the last 30 years.

The Miracle Worker play has been turned into an Academy-Award winning movie, The Miracle Worker (1962) starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. The play has also had two television adaptations with the most recent being in 2000.

Helen Keller Festival

There is also a four day Helen Keller Festival held in downtown Tuscumbia Alabama on the last weekend of June.

Visiting Ivy Green Tuscumbia AL

The birthplace of Helen Keller is located at: 300 North Commons, W. Tuscumbia, AL 35674. It is open Monday through Saturday and closed on holidays.

Tuscumbia is located near Florence Alabama in northwest Alabama about 69 miles from Huntsville Alabama, 112 miles from Birmingham Alabama, and 129 miles from Nashville Tennessee. Tuscumbia is actually very easy to reach - it is one of the quad cities of the greater metropolitan area of Florence-Muscle Shoals.

If you are visiting Ivy Green Tuscumbia Alabama, definitely stop by Florence Alabama as well which is a charming small college town described by the Washington Post as " Brooklyn...plunked in a Southern State". The GunRunner Boutique Hotel in Florence is definitely the coolest place to stay in the area near Helen Keller's birthplace, if not all of Alabama.
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An international icon well-known for her advocacy of issues relevant to blind and/or deaf people, Helen Keller was born at Ivy Green Tuscumbia Alabama. The birthplace of Helen Keller in the former family home of the Kellers, has been turned into a museum celebrating the accomplishments of Helen Keller.

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Road Trip To Disney land - Orlando - Florida

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Road Trip To Disney land - Orlando - Florida

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Last Thanksgiving my family and i went to Disney Land it was an amazing trip. We saw the parade, and we went to  so many rides and I like the most the roller coaster and it's a small world and Petar pan and we saw the fire work's at night it was amazing. It was a memorable trip. I will never forget this trip.

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I went to Nigara Falls 2 years ago. I saw the falls from up. My family and me rode a boat called the maid of the mist. I was so exited to see the falls near me!

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Last December in 2019, we went to the Seaworld in Orlando. It was amazing to see the Dolphin and Killerwhale show.

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Last Year we went to safari park with my grand parents. It was very fun to watch and feed the animals!!

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I went apex to see my cousins

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My trip was in Disney world with my dads Parents

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My trip was in Disney world with my dads Parents

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Last year we moved  from Missouri . It has  famous arch in St. Louis. It has got Six Fags too. Now i"m very much exited to learn about Tennessee.

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we moved to Tennessee at 1:00 am and it took a long time for me it took like 8 hours and then finally we were at tennessee that is when I got to sleep

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It was so fun , I did spend time with my family.
i love
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Last year, we went to Florida and Louisiana. First we went to Florida, we had a fun time to play Universal studios! I like  to rode roller coaster But MY dad is scare to rode roller coaster so why dad chose to go Universal studios? Mom said because of for me! Then we went to New Oreans's port! I eat yammy oyster but I couldn't eat oyster ;(. Last We board cruise ship. I get fun for this trip!!!!!!!

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We love Elvis and were so excited to see where he lived in Memphis!

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I went to Rock city with my Grandmother, mom and Sean. I saw cool scenery. I love the trip because I had grandmother.

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I saw Lake Michigan.

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Sean Lee

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It was a very long drive.

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We drive to Chicago every winter to visit family. I love the snow. It is so pretty.

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Me and my family went to see Eiffel tower.

Alice Cardoso
2nd Grade
Hunters Bend

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We had a lot of fun. I ate crabs very much. They were so delicious!

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I saw Big Ben and went on the London Eye and I saw a castle.

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Last year we spent 7 days in Iceland. I saw the Volcano , fountains and big waterfalls.

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During last year's Winter Break. me and my family left Nashville to go to Gatlinburg at 12 noon. Unfortunately, because of a traffic jam on I-65 we reached Gatlinburg at 4:00pm instead of 3:00 pm. We were extremely exhausted so we took a nap as soon as we got there. We kinda woke up too late and had to rush as the next day was Christmas and most of the tourist attractions would be closed.  We visited Ripley's aquarium, Ripley's Moving Theater and Ripley's mirror maze. Unfortunately, we could not visit the Skybridge as it was closed on Christmas.

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Last summer,I went to the Smokey Mountains with my family.It was so much fun,sitting in the ski lift to go up the hill.We also clicked many pictures of the big bridge and waterfall.

Asya Chandra
2nd grade
Kenrose Elementary

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Last winter I went to Sedna with my family and my friend. Me and my friend made a ginger bread house. It was yummy. And I bought a rock like this. It was so much fun.

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I had fun in the playground in the aquarium. It was so much fun.
I also liked sitting in the ski lift to go up and cross the big bridge.

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My first road trip in U.S. was to New Orleans, Louisiana. I went there with my family 1year ago. We were in the car all day to there. We could see so many things same as the Disney movie "The princess and the frog"! We ate benier(square donut). We saw the alligators, it was a little scared. We rode a street car. We listened live jazz music. All was so amazing!!
Hinano Masaki

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Last winter I went to Sedna.

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During Thanks giving ,I and my family went to New Orleans .
We took a pleasure boat before we had a lunch .
Oyster  was famous in New Orleans but I didn't eat because I don't like oyster. I ate fish it was delicious .
It was very exited.

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Road trip to Huntsville, Alabama.

Last winter, I and my family ( my mom, dad and my little sister) went to U.S. Space Rocket Center. It was one and a half hour drive. I played games with my little sister in the car.In the rocket center we saw many things,rockets,their parts.We clicked many pictures there. I did rock climbing and rides also. I went to many simulators. I enjoyed there a lot.

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2 years ago, my family and grandparents went to Canada to see Niagara Falls. It was so big. I was so wet under the falls. It was really fun.

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My road trip to Holly wood studio in Florida 

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My road trip to Holly wood studio in Florida 

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Last winter I and my family had a road trip to Holly wood studio in Florida.My favorite attraction was The Wizarding world of Harry Potter.It was little scared but it was really good attraction. I want to go to Holly wood studio this winter too!!

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My mom, Axel, grandma, Gino and I went to Chattanooga. We drove there for 2 hours. We went to Rock City and I liked the Fairyland caverns!

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Me and my family have a road trip to visit my brother in Atlanta every month and sometimes we go twice a month, we have a lot of fun playing games, listening music, counting animals or trucks. Who's count more won!

Another road trip I really enjoyed was on last Christmas when we flight to Orlando went to Disney World and Universal Island Adventure. After we drive from Orlando to Miami and South Beach we stay there for 2 days and we drive back to Orlando, this was a very good and beautiful road trip. We always enjoy a road trip.

Also on my Birthday last year we had a road trip to Gatlinburg we have a lot fun at Gatlinburg mountain coaster, and visit the sky bridge.

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Last winter my family and I went to Disney World. My favorite attraction is Tower of Terror. It was so scary, but also funny attraction.My mother and I rode this attraction twice.My father did not ride that because he got scared.I wanted to ride with my father, but I was so happy to go to Disney World!

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Each summer, my family and I go to Missouri for summer camp.  We have SO much fun looking at all the trees and animals along the way.  And if we get tired of being in the car, we listen to music or find things outside the car that start with all the letters of the alphabet.  We always remember this road trip fondly and look forward to taking it every summer.

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Last summer, me and my familly went to Dollywood . We stayed at a hotel, it had a pool, and a very nice room. We went to an amusement park called Dollywood. I rode a roller coaster called "thunderhead" which was amazing! We spent the whole day there.
Next day we went to the water park. The one attraction I was the most scared and excited at the same time was called "Daredevil falls".

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I went on a trip to Memphis two years ago. Our family went to watch a basketball game which is Memphis Grizzlies and Cavaliers. It was the first time to watch NBA in my life and it was so great.

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My family and I went to Atlanta 1 year ago , to visit my uncle,aunt,and cousin because it was my cousin birthday so we made a birthday party with present,snacks,and we had a great time.

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My family went to mcDonald

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My family went to Tennessee Safari Park in February. We could see and feed many animals like zebra, alpaca, camel, ostrich, emu, antelope...It was amazing and so much fun!

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My family and I drove from California to Tennessee!

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My family went to Atlanta 3 years ago. We went there to visit our uncle and cousins. It was my first time going there and it was lots of fun! we all went to the Aquaruim. And I liked all the animals! I hope i could go there again.

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I went to Disney World like 1 or 2 years ago. I met Donald and take picture. My sister like Rapunzel so
she take picture with her.
And I see the parade too. It was so fun! I want to go visit there again!

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Road Trip to Disney World, Orlando, Florida

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Road Trip to Disney World, Orlando, Florida

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Last X'mas, I went to Walt Disney World with my family.
We went Disney land, and animal kingdom.
I met Princess such as Ellena, Cindellera, and Bell.
I talked with them !

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A week ago my family and I went to Destin Florida. The sea and the house were amazing. Even though we were social distancing for a long time, it was great because I spent a lot of time with my family.

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My whole family went to Atlanta 2 years ago. That was the first trip from Tennessee. I enjoyed eating a lot of Japanese food there! I hope I could visit there again.

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About 2 years ago we took a family road trip from Oregon to California. We went to Disneyland. It was a fun and amazing time at the park. I will always remember this great time!

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My daughter and I went on a road trip to St. Louis, Missouri, last October for Fall Break. We visited universities that she would like to attend. We had a great time!