We just returned from a 12 day road trip to the eastern US. We went tons of places, saw tons of friends and family, and did lots of fun things. I won't bore you with all of the minutiae, but instead will write about some of the highlights from the pictures we took.
On our way out we spent a few days in Hagerstown, MD to visit the Antietam Civil War battlefield. We also made time to drive through the Shenandoah Valley and hike on the Appalachian Trail. It was like the foggiest day in history, so we didn't see a lot of the actual valley, but it was really pleasant to spend an hour hiking and a couple hours driving through.
Here I am looking epic on the edge of cliff with a supposedly spectacular view. I'm just about 6 months pregnant to the day. I can't think of a better way to spend the beginning of the LAST trimester of this never ending pregnancy.
There were some really beautiful spiderwebs along the trail that were shimmering with all the condensation. They are surprisingly hard to photograph though, so this was my best attempt.
Our token cheesy family shot on the AT. There was one that was better of me and Joe, but everyone complained that Lily didn't look happy in the backpack last time, so I sacrificed our own dignity for the sake of our daughter's happiness.
The whole reason for this trip was to go see Joe's cousin Sarah get married! It was a lovely wedding, that we managed to not take any pictures at. Thankfully, Joe's uncle is a professional photographer so he took lots. Here are a few of his.
Here's Lily dancing in the driveway. Seriously the cutest girl ever.
Here are the two lovely brides, Sarah (on the right in the dress) and Melissa. The ceremony was really lovely and the reception was really fun. The whole thing was held at Peebles Island State Park where they went on their first date. The weather was perfect and Lily danced her heart out.
Afterwards we stayed with some friends, Joe and Rachel, in West Point, NY. They have a wonderful little boy, Carter, that is almost exactly one month older than Lily. They got along fabulously! Here they are sitting on the stairs eating some graham crackers before bath time.
Finally, we drove home through Canada and stopped at Niagara Falls! Even though I've driven through there at least 5 times moving back and forth to New Hampshire, I had never seen the falls until now. I've always wanted to ride on the Maid of the Mist, and we did! It was so much fun. I was surprised by how loud the falls weren't. I was expecting this really loud, sort of muffling roar, but it wasn't like that all. It was loud, but not deafening.
Here's our designated cheesy family photo in front of the American falls while we were waiting to get on the boat.
This was our attempt at a cheesy family photo in front of the Horseshoe Falls (the Canadian falls). I was doing pretty good just holding out the camera, and then this nice lady offered to take a picture for us and this is how it turned out. Lily looks slightly special, the mist is pluming up in the center, and I look like a hunchback. So this goes in the collection of awkward family photos, as well as cheesy.
I'm probably forgetting lots, but these are the best of the pictures. Lily is such a great little car traveler. She can sleep away the whole morning, then we stop for lunch and an hour or so of exercise and she's ready to hop back in for an afternoon shift. If she's not asleep she sings little songs to herself, lists all of the people and characters that she can think of, and sometimes plays with a stuffed animal or two. We've tried really hard to keep her backseat amusements to a minimum so she learns how to do it herself, and so far it seems to be working. And she did amazingly well sleeping in a different place almost every night. Whenever we got out of the car she would should "New house!" and be really excited to check out the new space.
It was a really great trip, and good last hurrah for the summer. Now we're ready for Joe to go back to school, Lily's activities to start, and gearing up for the new baby. Yay fall!
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