Road Trip!

So, Lilly and I headed out on a good old fashioned road trip last weekend. We spent a night in DC with Maren, saw my college roommate & her new addition in Maryland, then headed to rural Maryland to see old friends. Finally, we came home via the Eastern Shore. Great trip...but definietly a lot of driving for me & a 2 year old in 4 days!

This first pic...Maren & Lilly at the dinosaur exhibit at the Smithsonian. If you are not in the Diego & Dora loop...Diego has a new special where he saves dinosaurs...thus...much excitement about seeing the dinosaurs like Diego does. If you don't know who Diego & Dora are...ask a toddler.

This is us visiting Joyce & Baby Logan! How cute!

Then off to Elkton...where Lilly wanted to pose with George in front of "Baby Jaguar." If you don't know who that is...ask a toddler who Diego's sidekick is. HOw is this incredible view? This is the view from George & Jenny's lighthouse at sunrise (yes - toddlers are up really early).

Had to record one of our zillion stops at "Old McDonalds." Note to self: taking a recently potty-trained kid on a road trip = lots of stops. I could go a year before eating McDs again & it would still be too soon.

On the drive home we went to a Maritime Museum & a Railroad Museum. She likes "Turnin the Wheel" (from a song you probably don't know if you haven't watched "Dora's Pirate Adventure") SHe also "played kicthen" in a boat for a good 30 minutes. So Lilly. Here she is making me "chicken and pasta." Of course, the railroad museum was actually closed that day (much to Mama's surprise), but just climbing on the train cars and pretending to drive them was Lilly's favorite part of the whole trip.

This is when Lilly got tired of Mama always having the camera...thus...her persepctive.