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A long climb up a mountain

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May kicked off with a long weekend for the girls and, as part of Kiddo’s birthday present/celebration, we took a family trip.   We asked Kiddo what she wanted to do for her birthday this year, would she want a party with friends or something like that and she said that she wanted to “take a trip with mumma and dada and just a family getaway.”   Can do! We headed to Moganshan and the bamboo mountains there.   We also got to Xinshi and the ancient town there.   It was a cool trip. The downside of it was that it was a holiday weekend in China, so a LOT of people were on the road.   Normally it would be about a 2.5 hour drive to cover the 160km, but with traffic it took 5 hrs.   UGGGG!   Thankfully we were on a bus as part of a tour group, so we could all just chill and read and not worry about traffic.   Kiddo had a blast and there were a number of other families and kids as part of the group, so she had peers to play with and pal around with while t...