Here are some pictures of our trip to Bend. We stopped at the Redmond Air Center where Bob did his rookie training for smokejumping. Our family is standing outside one of the planes Bob has jumped out of. The second picture is in the chute well, where they hang and check the chutes. The girls loved this room because Bruce (our tour guide) could make the chutes go up and down in the tower. The third pic is inside the plane. The girls found a funny funnel thing with a hose on it attached to the wall and as they were going for a hands-on inspection, Bruce jumped in front of them and said, "no, no, no... You don't want to touch that!" Can you guess what it was?
Our five-year-old daughter was playing with the glitter glue while imagining she was decorating a cake (I think). She burst out with , "I'm going to add some spicy true love!" No, Bob didn't come up with it!
Dorothy L. Sayers commenting on Dante: "One must remember that though in one sense the Other World was a definite place, yet in another the kingdom of gods was within one. Earth and fairy-land co-exist upon the same foot of ground. It was all a matter of the seeing eye... To go from earth to faery is like passing from this time to eternity; it is not a journey in space, but a change of mental outlook."
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