baltimore and inner harbor

So I knew I was going to be playing catch up! Oh well, but before we left Hershey, and while my sister and mom were there, we went down to a Baltimore Orioles game. The kids love going because they get to ride on the "train" (Light Rail)

They even were able to see the moscot

But this is the REAL reason why they love going to this ball park!! A bouncy house!

And they were able to take some practice swings.

This little girl just wants to go-go

And then one last trip down to Inner Harbor while we were there

pros and cons

Well, as most of you know, we are on our way to Nebraska! We left Wednesday and have been taking our time. Actually we are only allowed so many miles to travel in a day as well. But I am the only one awake at the moment and so with some free time, I thought I would let you know things I am going to miss and things that I am looking forward to. First of all and definitely the first, I am going to miss all of our awesome friends from Hershey, especially our friends from our class. They truly became more than just our friends..., they were our family. And it was very hard to leave them and say good bye. Of course I cried. We love you all so very much and miss you all terribly. I am going to miss how green everything is. The TALL big trees. The awesome rain storms. How close we were to so many attractions. Hershey Park, Chocolate World, and FOR SURE the Outlets! I am going to miss all of their fun things they did for holidays as well. I am looking forward to being a homeowner! To be moving on to the next step in our lives. To be able to explore a new place and see what it has to hold for us. For Jaedon to be starting Kindergarten. And just the overall newness of everything. Nebraska here we come!!

antique

I hate doing more than one post in one day, but I need to be all caught up before we move so I am not playing catch up.

During our second year we went over to a 4th year med student's house and they showed us what their family gave him for a graduating present. It was an old Dr's bag. So as I was deciding on something to do for Jon, I thought how perfect an old antique bag would be for him going into Family Medicine. (Thanks Jones's) So I went on a search and couldn't find any thing I really liked, and that was affordable. So I talked with my mom and she was able to find one and some instruments, and that would be Jon's graduation present from my family. I love it and Jon loves it as well. Much thank yous to my family.

Look at all the cool old stuff! Testing out the instrumentation.

New York

Last Saturday I met up with my sister and mom in New York, for one last hoo-raw! It was a little rainy in the morning but not bad, and by late morning it was perfect weather.

Here we are in front of Bloomingdale's. I never realized how expensive that store was!

In front of CBS Central Park Having some yummy seafood!We all got some sunglasses from the market

The market

Not sure where this is...

It was really fun though, and was probably the best Mother's Day present ever. A day and a night away from kids! Thanks Sweets for being such an awesome hubby! And thanks to my mom and sister for the fun weekend.

the best part...

I totally forgot the best part of the whole trip to OBX. On our way out of town, we stopped to get some souvenirs, and we spotted these hermit crabs! Jaedon was so excited to get one, and thinks it is the coolest thing ever! Of course Jaedon picked a crab with a pink shell. Silly kid. He ended up calling it Mr. Krabs (from Sponge Bob naturally). I had to laugh too that Jaedon's first pet is a hermit crab. (Don't tell the Housing Office) :D

OBX

We have arrived!

We got there before we were able to check in and get the keys, so we headed down to the beach to check it out. Jaedon loved it! Livy and Sof weren't too sure about it.

We saw a lot of Light Houses while we were out there as well. This first one was a little disappointing. It was Bodie Island Light Station, and it was under some construction.

But they had this little walking area to look out over this little swampy area.

More time at the beach

This is what Jon thought of the beach...

This is what I thought about the beach...until I got sun burnt.

Don't you love that blue sky!?

I felt pretty bad. Jon took Sofia back to the house, and then like 5 minutes later we saw some dolphins. It was pretty awesome. Sorry Sweets.

The house had a pool and hot tub as well, and that was a pretty big hit. Although the pool was not heated, but felt good on the hot days.

At night we went and saw all the crabs coming out

This one was actually pretty big

Our last day there we went down to Cape Hatteras, and Ocracoke Island. We had to take a Ferry to get to Ocracoke and the kids loved it! The down side though was we had to wait a while to get onto the ferry.

Don't fall over board...

Sof was living it up!

There were all of these little huts out in the ocean. So I zoomed in to check out what they were. They are little, well big, bird house/nest type thingies.

This is the Ocracoke Light House, and it is the second oldest light house still in use.

This is the Cape Hatteras Light House, and is the tallest in the U.S. It was definitely quite tall too. They actually moved this light house as well, because its original location it was starting to get corrosion.

(I love Livy's hair in this picture! It was quite windy the whole time there.)

This was definitely a much needed vacation and I would recommend it to anyone!