Things I Ate as a Kid - White Mountain 1000 pcs. (#70)
This is probably our last puzzle of this year, and is the 70th one we have completed since the first one at the end of April. We have a combined total of 49,700 pieces assembled this year.
Cinque Terre, Riomaggiore Village, Italy - Cra-Z-Art 1500 Pieces (# 51)
This was another Goodwill find a few weeks ago. I really like this colorful image. It was the first 1500 piece puzzle we have put together, and we enjoyed building it. There were a number of times I was convinced that a piece was missing, but it always turned up. Early on I ran out of dark blue sky pieces and I still had two to put in right next to each other in the upper right. I went through every piece again looking for them and was finally convinced they were missing. Then I discovered that I had put them in the wrong place a row below and to the left of where they belonged. Those were the first of a number of false fits that slowed us up. We had another at the very end when we had about 8 pieces left; one of the holes required a piece with two outs next to each other and we didn't have one. So we looked more carefully and found our mistake. The quality of this puzzle was excellent. The pieces were thick and they hol...
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