Quick Trip to DC

A couple weeks ago Allie's fiance had to fly out of Washington DC so we decided to all go and make a fun day out of it! Allie and Jessica had never been there before so we were excited to see everything! I sort of remember my way around so that made us a lot less lost! Haha. We started out by seeing the Washington Monument. It was SO hot and humid I was seriously dying walking around all day! We made our way up to the Holocaust museum where we spent a lot of our time. They had some new exhibits that weren't there when I was so it was like a whole new place! Then we headed down to see the White House, WWII Memorial, the Lincoln Monument and to grab some lunch! We didn't get to see quite everything that we wanted to, but it was still a great day!

Washington Monument
White House

I had to take this one for my mom and Annie because we sat here for probably an hour the last time we were there :)

My fave, Lincoln Monument

*VA Beach ZoO*

If you haven't figured it out by now, I love to go to the zoo!! I don't care if I have seen the same animal a million times I am still mesmerized by them! So last week, me, Jessica, Tash, and her little girl, Siene packed up and headed for the zoo. Even though you want to die everywhere you go here because you sweat to death!!!!
There were a few animals at this zoo that I don't think I have seen before, or maybe just don't remember! OH, and another first, I got to see someone get engaged at the zoo! I don't know if it's just me, but I thought that was kind of weird to choose the zoo... haha oh well!

Me, Siene, Jess
I could not figure how these snakes got like this! It reminds me of the snake on Disney's Robin Hood

Elephants

Rafiki!!! This is one that I don't think I have ever seen before. It's crazy their faces and bums are colored

I have never seen a tiger this close!! He was so cute :) His trainer was standing right by us so he would follow her wherever she went!

Monkeys

This is the other animal that I don't think I have seen before! He was not in the mood to be looked at so he had this sheet he would put over his head! I knocked on the window and he peeked his eye at me and then walked over to the back of his house! Haha it was so funny

Viginia Beach Aquarium:

Me and Jess also ventured to the aquarium one day... which was a bad idea because it was kind of lame for how much it cost! The only cool this was this alligator type thing. I don't remember the name of it but it was HUGE and it looked at us like he wanted to eat us for dinner!

Sunday= bEaCh DaY*

In the summertime we LOVE when Sunday rolls around because it is Tyler's only day off to relax and do nothing! One of our favorite things to do, and we have done it every Sunday since we've been here, is spend the day at the beach! It's so much fun and only about 10 minutes away! Most of the day consists of surfing, swimming, laying out, and walking the boardwalk! We LOVE being so close to the beach :)

Here are the boys out in the ocean jumping waves and "trying" to surf... :) That is Tyler with his arms up
I spend most of the time on the beach....

This is kind of of crappy picture, but this is me, Jessica, and Allie

You could say I have turned in to a beach bum! The girls come to the beach at least 3 times a week! I bought my airplane ticket to go home on July 26th.... I am REALLY not ready to go back to the real world!

Trip to Champaign

Like I said in the post before, I was able to go see my sister for a week! I was so excited to see them since I hadn't since Christmas!! It worked out perfectly because the weekend we were going to move to VA Beach was the weekend I was going to drive there so it was nice I didn't have to drive myself and Tyler could just drop me off there on the way! I was sneaky and told them that we weren't gonna be there until in the middle of the night but we really were going to be there at 5:00 pm! Bladey was sooo excited to see me :) He especially loved me this trip... I'm still trying to figure out why! Haha maybe because I let him play "Angry Birds" on my phone! Like always it was SO good to see them and we had a lot of fun!

The night I surprised them! Eating at Chipolte
Swimming at Scholem Water Park

Auntie and Bladen

He told me to take a picture of him fighting up the water and send it to Nana, Papa, Mom, Dad, Nick and Tyler.. haha

I love this little dude!

Movie Date :) Mr. Popper's Penguins

Of course we had to get a snack pack!

Last night in Champaign! At my favorite place to eat, Ribeye! Thanks Laci and Nate

Zoo Day

Well... Iowa was fun while it lasted but we have moved on to bigger and better things... aka the BEACH :) The office packed up and made the 20 hour move to Virginia Beach! Thank heavens I only had to drive 5 out of the 20 hours because Tyler dropped me off at my sisters for a week!
When we were still in Des Moines we went to the Blank Park Zoo! It was a smaller zoo but it was still fun! We went with Jessica and Ty & Bradyn and Aleah.
These turtles were HUGE

Baby camel

We took this guy for a little stroll..

It was awesome! I want to ride one in Egypt or somewhere crazy now! The worker told me to sit right on the hump and I was nervous because I thought it was squishy, but as you can see it wasn't!

Baby giraffe

Tyler hates snakes!

We fed this cute little guy some lemon ice. You would too if you saw his sad little eyes starring at you!