Panama Canal!

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We had the awesome experience of taking our grandparents and parents to see some cool things around the city when they came to visit! Here we are at the Miraflores Locks on the Panama Canal. Absolutely incredible the engineering behind moving these thousand-ton cargo ships from one ocean to the other. I LOVE PANAMA!





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