Michelle, Nathan, & Oliver: May 2011

At the end of April, once Nathan was done with school. we decided to go on a roadtrip to Washington DC. We traveled all day and all night and made it to Chicago 24 hours later. We stayed in a super sweet hotel there for two nights. We decided to spend a day wandering Chicago. First we did the Sky Deck at the Willis Tower (Sears Tower). That was so much fun. Super scary, especially when I'm terrified of heights. Even Nathan and Oliver had a hard time stepping out there. It took me quite awhile to get up enough courage to go out there. Nathan ended up having to hold my hand as we stepped out. It was freaky. After that fun little adventure we went to lunch at the BEST pizza place ever. We had Chicago style pizza and it was SOOOOOO tasty! Pizza is my favorite, so I was a happy girl. After that we went and walked around Chicago. We walked to this super sweet fountain then we walked along Lake Michigan. It was so beautiful. We had tons of fun. The next day we drove to Washington DC. We stayed with one of my friends there for about 5 days. We did all sorts of things there. We saw the White House, Washington Monument, tons of Museums (Nathan's favorite by far was the Natural History Museum.), Botanical Gardens, lots of different parks, the Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, Drove around to some of Nathan's old mission spots, and just walked around DC. We had tons of fun there too. It's so beautiful there. After that we drove through Shenandoah National Park. That was a really pretty drive and we would have wanted to do all sorts of hikes, but we didn't have any way to carry Oliver on those hikes and we didn't want to carry him 3-5 miles. After that we took our time driving back to Utah. We stopped in West Virginia for a night. And then we stopped in St. Louis. We had tons and tons of fun on our trip. Here are some pictures from the trip.