{"id":361,"date":"2009-06-14T03:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/06\/ring-ring-ring-ring-banana-phone.html"},"modified":"2009-06-14T03:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T03:06:00","slug":"ring-ring-ring-ring-banana-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/06\/ring-ring-ring-ring-banana-phone.html","title":{"rendered":"Ring Ring Ring Ring…Banana Phone!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The song is stuck in my head now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why? Because we brought this artificial banana with us on vacation and Dave has been charged with photographing it everywhere. Yes, like Flat Stanley<\/a>. The pictures of this banana as it travels across America are being assembled in a photo album for one of Dave’s colleagues, who uses this banana as punishment for those who arrive at his unit’s physical training sessions late.<\/p>\n

Enjoy the pictures of each of the states we crossed so far today on our eastward journey…banana and all:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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From 2009 06 13 VacationEastDay1<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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From 2009 06 13 VacationEastDay1<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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From 2009 06 13 VacationEastDay1<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Tomorrow we continue on I-80 all the way to New York City. According to our GPS, it should only be about 7-8 hours worth of driving (compared to 10.5 hours today). We hope to be out of our hotel by 0800, try to get to NY before dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The song is stuck in my head now. Why? Because we brought this artificial banana with us on vacation and Dave has been charged with photographing it everywhere. Yes, like Flat Stanley. 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