A word from Greta

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Hi!

Grace and I are super excited about the progress we are making on our business. We have had a some sales and we have given away some puzzles as gifts.  It’s been just as fun to ship our puzzles to our east coast customers as it has been to hand deliver to local friends.  We have been working on improving our mistakes and are learning more and more about graphic designing. We also have been working on our website and are getting excited to launch it! We keep getting more and more products to test out but not all of them are out for sale yet. Stayed tuned for some new products!

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We have great products for dads, so if you missed Mother’s Day then Father’s Day is coming up and it will be here before we know it! We appreciate and thank everyone for your support!

Overall I think this is a great opportunity that not everyone has a chance to do. We are very thankful that we get the opportunity to do this!

Greta

Impressive Inks

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Hello.  Thank you for following us along on our last adventure! I am here to tell you about our new one! We have recently purchased two printers and set them up in our garage. Greta, my parents and I have been working hard to get everything set up. We now have an Etsy store, and we are working on our website. The primary item that we are selling is wooden puzzles. You can have up to 6 pictures of your choice printed directly on the wood block puzzle! They are a great gift for your loved ones. We also sell a few other items too and will be coming up with new items as we learn more.  We have sold a few puzzles already but we wanted to let all of you guys know about this exciting news.

I think it’s really cool that we are able to do this right from our house. Greta and I are very excited to grow our business! If you are interested you can check it out at http://www.etsy.com/shop/myimpressiveinks. You can also follow us on Instagram at myimpressiveinks for updates! Stay tuned for a new post shortly!

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-grace

We’re home!

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We got home last week on Tuesday. It’s nice to be home and have some space. We are getting into a routine again now. We have been busy for the past week so sorry for the lack of posting. Here is a video of our getting home and what everybody thinks about the trip.

A word from the Birthday girl!

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November 2, 2015

We woke up I was super happy because it was my birthday! We headed to St Louis to go to the St Louis Arch. We went to the campground first then we drove to into St Louis. When we got to the arch we went in little elevator thing with seats in them. On the way up it took four minutes and on the way down it took 3 minutes. Dad is so scared of heights so it was really funny watching his reaction at the top.

Everyone thinks that it’s the scariest thing on the roadtrip but I think that The Willis Tower in the blocks were scarier. It was a super cool view at the top! Then we had to go back down. After the super cool arch we drove over to the Golden Corral.

We ate as much as we could then drove back to the RV then went to bed. I had a really fun birthday going to the top of the arch!

-Greta

Diamond Hunting and a Birthday in the RV

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November 1 2015

Today we spent our time at Crater of Diamonds National Park in Arkansas.  It is the worlds only public diamond mine and was created from volcanic activity.   It was really muddy because it had just rained the day before but they told us that means that nature did the work of uncovering the diamonds for us. We didn’t find any diamonds but we did find pretty rocks. My mom even found a purple gem called an “amethyst”. We  are starting to work out way back home and everyone is ready to sleep in there own beds. We drove another 5ish hours until we got to Memphis. So close but still far away. Here’s a video I made of the day(:

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AND it is a very, very special day here in our RV today!  We are celebrating another teenager in the McCleary Family!  Greta is 13 today!  Greta is a joy and her smile can light up any room.   She is a gem far more valuable than any we could have found in the diamond mine yesterday!   I’m so very thankful God gave her to me!  Happy Birthday, Greta!  Love you forever and always.  – mom

Halloween 2015

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October 31, 2015

We started out October 31st, 2015 by hanging out for a bit in the French Quarter.   After that we did a little E fit and watched a row team practicing in the canal by our camp site in New Orleans.

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Then started the drive.  A storm was rolling in, so we hooked up and took off toward The Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas.  We’ll tell you all about our mining experience tomorrow.

We crossed the mighty Mississippi yesterday in the rain in the Baton Rouge Port.

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One of the most exciting things for the day was captured in the picture below.  We were in what seemed to be not such a nice area of a small town in Arkansas.  We took and alley (which might have been our first mistake) to which we ended up stuck.  We were stuck because of a low laying electrical wire.  But, being married to such a smart guy, we figured it out and did surely the smart thing!  We held the wire up with a stick and drove under it!

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New Orleans

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October 30, 2015

Today we spent our day in New Orleans. We experienced some live street bands. One spot we went to had a super good violin player. She was playing with a girl who was playing the guitar.

We saw magician on the street doing some really cool magic tricks too. We stopped at a few shop to get key chains. We also got some masks. There are a lot of homeless people in New Orleans. And quite a lot of crazies too.  

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We saw the statue of Andrew Jackson and his horse, Sam Patch. It was kind of cool seeing it because we learned quite a bit about Andrew Jackson on this trip. We went to a graveyard that had the tombs above ground. Even though it was closed, we still looked through the gate.

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My dad helped a man push his “hot dog” cart down the road because it was really heavy and he was doing it alone.

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Next we went out to eat at a restaurant and we had “poor boys” it was a lot better than it sounded. They are just a sandwich/sub. Apparently that’s what your supposed get when you go to New Orleans. On our way out we got to people watch from the car. There are some strange people in this town so the boys had a lot of questions. Glad that we are only spending one day here.

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– grace

The Alabama – Florida boarder

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October 29, 2015

We started the day by swimming in the pool at the RV park. The pool wasn’t heated so it was really cold. After swimming at the pool we took the van to get some state pictures. After pictures we went on a ferry at Mobile Bay with our car over to Dauphin Island, Alabama.

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After the ferry ride we went to Fort Gaines. We just walked around for a little bit then moved on to the next thing.  It has been neat to see history of the wars right before our eyes.

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On the Island we were on they were moving sand from the hurricane weather they had like we move snow after a snowstorm in MN!  We went  to the beach next. When we got there I took about ten steps before realizing I was going to need a bag because there were so many shells! We walked for a little while before grace yelled out, ”I found a jellyfish!” so everyone rushed over to see it.  Even though it was dead it was super cool to see. We walked for a while and got lots and lots of shells! When everyone was ready to go we walked back to the car.

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We took the ferry back over to the other side and drove back to our RV park.

-Greta

Grace put together a video for us to remember our day.

A day we drove

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October 28, 2015

Yesterday we drove.  That is about it.  We drove all day.  We slept in and went down the road from Nashville to the Alabama/Florida boarder.  We did school work.  We made lunch in the RV.

BUT, today… today the kids are in the pool swimming.  We are heading to the ocean.  We’ve done E fit and sweat because it’s almost 80 degrees out.  And, I head that it is not almost 80 at home right now.  In fact, I hear that there is something white in the air.  So, today will will take in every bit of sunshine and warmth that we can.  I don’t miss that white stuff.  But I sure do miss my friends and family at home.  It will be YOU that gets us back to a Minnesota winter!  Love you all!

Boots for all

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October 27, 2015

Today we drove to the Andrew Jackson plantation. There we saw the house him and his family lived in. We saw his slaves houses, the kitchen, the cotton field, and the museum. This museum was much smaller than the others and that wasn’t a bad thing. It was very interesting to hear and read about.

After that we went to Nashville, Tennessee. We went out to eat and stopped at a few boot stores when we came across a store that was buy one get two free. A few hours passed and we found ourselves still there. Everybody was fine but my dad. He was ready to leave but my mom was determined to find a pair of boots for him. He was tired of looking and wanted to leave but he finally found some. So we walked out of the store with a total of nine pairs of boots. (My mom and I both got two pair) we then took a picture by the boot and drove home. That’s what we have started calling our RV – “home” but it’s not going to be for much longer and I think everybody is homesick.

All in all it was a super fun day and I even got a lot of time to catch up on my school work. Here is a video I put together of the day, enjoy!

-grace