Wednesday, August 15, 2007

a special banana

The only pictures we have from day 7 are of a very special banana!! 

banana twins

Two bananas inside one peel.  So, it's twins--Siamese twin bananas!! 

At the top they were joined together, but at the bottom they were separate.

See?  Isn't that fun and very unique? 

Aug 15, 2007 6:50:00 PM | family, life in taiwan, my photos

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Ashley

Now that is COOL!! :-)

Posted by: Ashley | Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 12:15 AM

DebD

that is so cool!

Stay dry my friend.

Posted by: DebD | Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 08:52 AM

Candice

I've never seen anything like that before. Too cool!!

Posted by: Candice | Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 09:47 AM

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