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We had a great visit to the Dogfish Head brewery

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This is where they make some of our favorite beer!

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Early stages of Dogfish Head beer, where the dort is boiled. (We think)

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Beautiful tanks, some made of Palo Santo wood from Paraguay.

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Malt ready to be added to beer

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We really wanted to go up in this treehouse sculpture but, alas, it is only open to employees.

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Giselle gave an impromptu breakdancing demonstration

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Next we went to Dogfish Head's original brewpub, where it all started.

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We stayed here in Rehoboth Beach

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We took a walk on the beach before leaving town.

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It was a beautiful, if cold, walk

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A bit of ice was still on the beach.

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We stopped for lunch at one of our favorite discoveries from years past: Jimmy's Grille

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Wow, what a great picture!

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Then we stopped at the Salisbury Zoo.

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Colorful despite the cold

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Someone was spreading his wings.

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And other somebodies were thirsty.

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Struttin'

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This peacock kept pecking at the ice. We weren't sure if there was something good embedded in it, or he was trying to threaten his reflection. Maybe both.

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Chatting with the guests

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This rhea was fairly curious about why we would venture out on such a cold day.

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Bison

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A happy cavy

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Cavy close up.

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Cavortin' Cavies.

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A watchful burrowing owl

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Ever vigilant.

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This spectacled owl was trying to hide from us.

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And we were apparently disturbing the screech owl's beauty rest.

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Poor llamas. No matter how smart they are, when they make this expression they look a bit slow.

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Something riled this wolf up and he got the whole pack howling.

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Feeling a bit sheepish with his tail between his legs when the alert turned out to be a false alarm.

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Can you hang upside-down like a sloth?

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Giselle can!

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In Berlin, the town closest to Assateague, we stayed at the Hotel Atlantic

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The hotel is a beautiful and well-preserved landmark

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Our room

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Giselle, perched on the bed. The bed was so high up, it came with a stepstool to help you climb up!

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And next to the hotel, we were surprised to find Santa's house--which was smaller than we had expected.

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We had brunch at the Globe, a theater turned into a restaurant.

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Our rental car next to the new recycling bins at Assateague

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Giselle, pretending to throw a temper tantrum because we kept forgetting things in the car

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Someone was following us!

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The beach was beautiful!

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No flipflop prints in January

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It's just like August. But colder.

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Watch out for hunters!

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One of the backcountry campsites that we could hike to in the summer, if we wanted a long hot hike on the beach with all our stuff followed by camping in a bug-infested swamp :(

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But the backcountry IS beautiful

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The ponies like it there

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Bill wanted to play with some toys we found.

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The path back to the beach

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Maybe we'd better wait until the next restroom, this one looks a little off balance.

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This heron was fishing but we were crimping its style so we moved on.

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The cutest pony we saw all weekend!

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Grazing.

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These are the campsites we'll have in July

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another view

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Another walk on the bayside.

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seaweed detail

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Monday was cloudy but still beautiful

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It was just a tad too cold for a long walk, though

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Another view of our future campsites. We can't wait!

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We found this tag on the beach, which we later learned was part of a project to tag and track horseshoe crabs. We sent in the info to the Fish and Wildlife Service and hopefully they'll tell us the history of the crab it was once attached to.