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If I could redecorate my house, here is what I would do.

I would knock out all of my inside walls so that my home was one large room. I would then establish a miniature Disneyland, with each quadrant being a new "land" and around which would circle a human-sized train. The train would have a whistle.

Rides fitting to each land would be constructed.
1. Frozen Yogurt Land would have a frozen yogurt shop and frozen yogurt.

2. Air Born Land would have a trampoline, a huge fan that can hold people stationary in the air and so imitate skydiving, and one of those plane rides you see at the grocery store that you sit in and rock back and forth.

3. Government Land would have lego sets that represent the three branches of the United States government, with little lego figures debating in their lego congress and other little lego figures protesting.

4. Finally would be Puppies-Versus-Kittens Land. Here, puppies and kittens would be dressed as gladiators. Several bowls of warm buttermilk would be set in the center of a puppy-versus-kittens arena, enough for all of the puppies and kittens. They would be let out of their respective cages at once to run to the center as gladiators would, only they would not fight because they all have buttermilk.

Unfortunately, I don't think many people would visit, except to get frozen yogurt.

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