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Fantastic story! I love to know everybody spent the day well and sooner or later enjoyed the rides. A big hats off to Mr. 2010 - I have only respect for him and applaude his effort, cherishing and hoping for more guys of his kind.

The only time I saw a parent chaperoning was when back in primary school I was participating in a "tourist club", which was nothing more than on Saturday once in a month hiking trip in the mountains. The group was suprevised by few teachers, supported by a mother of twins from another class in my year. She was walking at the end to make sure nobody was left behind on the trail, helping put our shoes and backpacks properly, provided pain relief ointment or plasters if necessary and during stops held great conversations with whoever wanted to talk. Sadly, some people thought it was cringe of her to do so, making her suddenly stop accompanying us.

"I also had an app that tracked their locations, but I turned it off because it ran through my battery like it was mining Bitcoin" - this might expose how young and what sort of gamer I am, because I would probably use the Simile "ran through my battery like I was playing Pokemon Go". Seriously, the battery was disappearing from the Iphone I had when I played this game for a year in span of few percent per minute.

Concerts and football matches (plus back in the day F1 races) had for many years been the only occasions for members of my family to wear matching shirts. This way my elder relatives over the years received lots of admiration for raising sibling, cousins and me "properly" in love for certain kinds and providers of entertainment. But as you put it well, sometimes these things can make one swim in their own sweat, so I try to decrease my chances of it happening by having a light-coloured merch or ensuring there's at least a possibility to retreat indoors from time to time during an event.

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I played Pokémon Go briefly at the height of its initial popularity, and you're right: That thing devoured batteries. Is there more stuff to do in the game now? It was fun but kind of shallow years ago when I gave it a try.

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It seems we played it in a similar time. I haven't checked it in years, but after doing a brief research and seeing some of my friends still play it I'd say the essence of the game is still as it was in the early days, but they've added GO Battle League, where players can face each other globally in online matches, Raids that are group in-person gatherings to fight an over-leveled Pokemon located in a Gym, with difficulty levels and tougher forms such as "Elite Raids" or "Shadow Raids", as well as few more. And of course a ton of new Pokemons, some of regional speciality.

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