Tuesday, July 15, 2008

D.C. continued

This trip added to Ellie's state count. With Maryland and Virginia now on her list she is up to 14 states. We don't have plans for anymore in the near future, so we'll have to work on that.

We did a lot of waking to see the memorials and museums along the Mall in D.C. Brielle was a trooper, but as you can tell she did not love hanging out in her stroller. She was much happier when I let her out to practice her new walking skills.

The Botanical Gardens were amazing. I liked the hands-on exhibits where you could smell the spices and learn about the many uses of plants.


We took a trip to the National Zoo. It was hot and crowded, but we still had fun and saw quite a few of the animals. Ellie learned to sign Elephant and Monkey.

Ellie was also quite fascinated with the Komodo Dragon.


The Washington D.C. temple. It is beautiful!!


The National Aquarium in Baltimore was amazing. As you can tell from the pictures Ellie loved seeing all the fish, birds and other animals.

2 comments:

jenn said...

i l.o.v.e. that last pic of you and ellie. too cute! i love d.c. so much! we always went growing up b/c that was our temple, but it's been over 6 years since i've been. we'll have to take the kiddos sometime when we visit my fam.

Shelly said...

It looks like you had so much fun! I love that last picture, too.