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Snow! Homeschool News Hattiesburg Forerunners provides competitive sports opportunities for homeschool students (Examiner.com, Jul 29 2010) Should you homeschool for special time with just one child? (Atlanta Journal And Constitution, Jul 28 2010) Great Homeschool Conventions, Inc. and the Memphis-Area Home Education Association are combining efforts on regional Mid-South Homeschool Convention in Memphis. (PRWeb, Jul 28 2010) Homeschooling 101: How do I register for homeschool? (Examiner.com, Jul 28 2010) Local Information Father's Gun Kills 2 Young Brothers In Chino Hills (KTTV Fox 11, Jul 29 2010) Murder-suicide or suicide pact suspected in deaths of Chino Hills brothers, 10 and 12 (Los Angeles Times, Jul 29 2010) Boys, 12 and 10, shot to death in Chino Hills (Press-Telegram, Jul 29 2010) Two boys found dead of gunshot wounds on Chino Hills property (Whittier Daily News, Jul 29 2010)
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Snow!
Well, we didn't exactly have snow in Chino Hills, but thanks to some much-needed winter storms this year, the local mountains were loaded with it. I'm not enough of a geography buff to name all the peaks in this photo, but this panorama runs north-west through north-east and shows the San Gabriel mountain range. ![]() This is the place! We try to make at least an annual trip to play in the snow, but this was the first year in the last several that we actually made it. In fact, this was to be Annie's very first time in snow! So when it came time to decide where to go, what do you suppose was the deciding factor? Distance, cost, quality of the snow? Nope. The conveyor belt. In researching snow play areas, one stood out: the Alpine Slide at Magic Mountain, in the city of Big Bear Lake. They have installed a "Magic Carpet" that takes you from the bottom to the top of the tube run. No more rolling your tube up the hill, just slide down, walk a few feet to the bottom of the conveyor belt and ride back up! (You know you're getting old when...) ![]() Our good friends the Dixons have three kids, girl-boy-girl, and about our kids' age. So we picked a weekday at the end of March (to avoid the crowds), Dad took the day off work, and by 10 a.m. that morning, we were tubin'! Unbeknown to us, long-time friends of ours were making the exact same plans. We've known the Dixons for almost 15 years, and have always had a lot in common. We used to tell cat stories before we each had kids, then our families started at about the same time. We not only ended up with the same number of kids, but in the same gender sequence too. ![]() Jessica and Jamie But it was just a little uncanny to discover they had also planned a day in the snow, on the exact same day, and at the exact same place! It was a fun bit of Serendipity to find each other up there, and needless to say the kids were elated. |
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