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What Oddities Dream Collection

                Last night I had a dream that we had gone to the Enchanted Forest and somehow ended up with a book of names.  The names were written in my father’s handwriting – or so I believed.  The only name I can remember was Priddy Meaks – who is an ancestor on my mother’s side.  So maybe it was my mother’s handwriting?  I, of course, do not remember the details as I had when I initially woke up.  I remember telling Jaime that we should collect all the pressed pennies that we could for they each had the names of our forefathers.  Lies.                First of all, Enchanted Forest didn’t even exist when Priddy Meaks crossed the plains with the pioneer company.   There is some monument or structure that bears his name.   I have never seen it but my mom said she did when she was in Illinois.   It is not in Oregon.   It is no...

I wish we could have taken Manuel instead of Ashley

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      It wasn't so much that Kayla was not interested in the Enchanted Forest so much as the drive there.   Roland had asked to take off the last week of March.   It was my understanding that Kayla and her family had planned to leave their house on Friday morning on March 23 - which was the last day of school for Kayla, but not for the school districts in Salt Lake.   Their spring break did not until the following Thursday (the 29th) and so Roland had extra time off before the family arrived.      He wanted to do something special with Jenna and asked her to invite a friend that we might take with us to the Enchanted Forest.   She had asked one friend who initially said "yes" but then had to tell her "no".   She then decided to invite Ashley, whom I had never heard her mention before until that week as she had been invited to Ashley's birthday party.      Problem with many of Jenna's fr...