July

After my mom left, Dru's mom came to visit for a couple of weeks. While she was here the last 2 weeks of July, we visited the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and we drove up to Hershey, Pennsylvania. On the way to D.C. to go to the Smithsonian we came across a wonderful sight. This picture doesn't do the actual sighting justice. Driving along the highway, we drove around a curve and uphill and out of nowhere this is what we see appearing to rise out of the ground. The Washington D.C. Temple. It was awesome!

The Air and Space museum was pretty cool and Mina was pretty good. Aside, from losing Dru's mom and spending half of our time looking for her, we really enjoyed it. I actually chased Mina around most of the time, but she was having fun so I didn't mind.

A small glimpse of the museum.

This was how Mina decided she wanted to ride in the stroller. Goofy girl.

This was Mina's favorite part about the museum. The corners of the fencing around the planes. She would run to them whenever she caught sight of one, but she picked favorites even though they were all identical. We'd walked a ways away from one she favored and then she'd run off, and know exactly where to go to get back the exact one.

We rode an elevator up to the observation tower and Mina had a lot of fun looking at the airplanes fly by.

She also had a lot of fun making everybody laugh.

By the time we left, she was pooped.

The following weekend we drove up to Hershey, PA. It took a little less than 2 hours to get there. We went to the Zoo, the Hershey Museum, Chocolate World and the Hershey Gardens.

Mina just adores animals so she had a wonderful time at the zoo.

We did let her walk a lot, because she is very independent. It's a lot of work for us, but she enjoys the freedom.

This was at the Hershey museum. Mina walked herself around the museum and I followed her. This was her favorite part. A picture of a cow on the wall.

This was on a ride at Chocolate world. It was a little tour of how chocolate is made. Mina loved the singing cows.

Finally, this was at Hershey Gardens. There was a butterfly house. Mina had been asleep, so Dru and I walked through and decided Mina would love it so we went back out and woke her up. There were so many butterflies in there. It was amazing.

Mina calls butterflies, "bies."