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We spent last weekend in the Poconose Mountains in Pennsylvania, somewhere (see: middle of nowhere) northwest of Harrisburg. No phone signal, no internet, wild animals... And that was just inside the cabin. Outside, we had cool weather and bears (they feed them out back with 55-gallon drums of expired caramel from the Hershey factory).

It was a great weekend. Ashley's grandfather built a family cabin and most of her aunts and uncles and cousins came for the weekend. Her family is great fun and it was nice to unwind and catch up with them as this was our first weekend vacation since August.

Ashley has two young cousins. Canon is about 6 or 7 and Gillian is an adorable 3 and a half. Canon has all the cool transformer toys i loved as a kid, so that's fun, and Gillian's current favorite game is playing restaurant. She asks what you want for each meal and "writes" orders down on her Hello Kitty magnetic doodle pad for hours at a time. She's also a total rip. As much as i hate to encourage a kid to simply talk back to adults, it's hard not to admire the courage of a 28-inch kid standing up to the verbal taunts of 200-lb adults. In those cases i always pull for the underdog against the tyrant abusing their power.

i'll try to post pictures soon.