The Wild Ponies With our summer winding down quickly, the next week full of meetings for my husband and meet and greets for the kids' schools, we decided to have one last "field trip." I wanted another adventure and I had recently stumbled upon a beautiful copy of Misty of Chincoteague that my mother had given the boys, and that sparked an idea: why not go to Chincoteague? I had never been to Chincoteague before, only to neighboring Assateague with my mother and grandmother over a decade ago. Since Chincoteague is a National Wildlife Refuge I figured my sons (and I) would be in heaven. It is a 3 1/2 hour drive, making it 7 hours of driving in one day, nothing to sneeze at, but with all of the wildlife we could potentially see, I reasoned it would be worth it. Both Chincoteague and Assateague have wonderful websites. Chincoteague has all of its brochures available online (specific ones on birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians), so I started to hype my kids up a
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