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Days like this....

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Tuesday.... 9 hour work day... pick kids up...feed kids....drive "big" kid to boy-scouts.... G R E A T... not a regular scout meeting... somewhere 1/2 drive time... no idea where I am going... Should we just skip it? I'm tired & really don't feel like spending 2 hours in the car driving drop/pick him up for a 2 hour meeting... Crap... OK... I'll take him... threw kids in the car... along with my camera & started driving... Dane's meeting was at Kjøkøy Fort... (I had no idea what it was when I dropped him off....) The fortress was built by the Germans during the 2. World War. W O W ... it is so easy to forget all of the history around here... My mother in law still tells stories about when the Nazi's came to town...took over houses...the schools...threw her father in jail.... (this is a whole other post I have been brewing in my head....) The fort is located out on a chain of islands.... the sun was shining & reflecting off of the water.... in...