With having celebrated Fathers' Day this week, a scrapbooking group list I particapate with asked us to share pictures of our dad. This is the photo I shared as it is a favorite picture of mine. Here is the story behind the shot....
I was traveling in Peru with my father and sister Lois. Our group was in the Amazon Rain Forest of Peru and were visiting a small village on the river. This woman Maria came out to greet our boat , bringing her 2 pets with her. One was a parrot and the other, a three toed tree sloth. We were all invited to hold each of the animals, the sloth being the most popular. Holding him was like getting a hug from a live teddy bear. As the sloth was being passed around my father came up to me and asked me to get a photograph of him when he got his hug. "Of Course," I replied. Then someone went to pass him the sloth and he said, "Not with him!" And then my dad proceded to grab Maria and hug her, laughing harder than I have ever seen him laugh. When I see this picture it reminds me of a moment when my dad showed us another side of himself I had not seen before, his silly joking side. Of all the amazing things I saw on that trip This was truly my favorite moment.
Happy Fathers' Day Dad, I love you.
PS..Thanks go to Shelby for figuring out how to use our scanner so that I could post this picture.Thank God for smart kids.
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