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The Worst Birthday Ever (Our Trip Home)

Monday, January 5th was my 39th Birthday. It also happened to be the day that we traveled home from Tunisia. We really enjoyed our trip to visit Erin and Dorsey, but we were also excited to get home and get back into our normal routine.
Here’s how the trip went:

6:30 am–Left Erin and Dorsey’s [...]

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Tunisia-Day 9

The last day of our trip began with a soccer match in Tunis. Jake and Abby both had wanted to take in a soccer game, and we were looking at doing it the second day of our trip, but we got a little bit of cold feet because we didn’t know exactly what we would [...]

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Tunisia-Day 8

We spent our second to last day in Africa driving over to the Cape that sits directly across from Tunis. We ended up going with Erin and Dorsey’s friend Cheryl, who we’ve mentioned in the previous entries. It took quite some time for us to reach our destination, but some of the views we saw [...]

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Tunisia-Day 7

We headed over to visit the ancient city of Carthage to check out the ancient ruins.  Carthage is a beautiful town located right on the Mediterranean.  Many of the views of the city are simply breath taking.
Legend had it that Carthage was founded around 800 BC and became a major city and trading center along [...]

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Tunisia-Day 6

After the somewhat lazy New Year’s Eve from the night before, we took it somewhat easy on New Year’s Day. My mom, Jean, and I headed over to the local town to catch a mass at the Catholic church. It was really a neat experience, watching a mass given by a Polish priest, with [...]

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