Ohio Trip

We took our first family trip last Wednesday to Cincinnati. The car ride there was great. Everyone slept.We visited with some friends on Wednesday night. Jacob was not sure about staying away from home. He wanted to know where Toby was and why we couldn't go home. Avrey on the other hand was great at sleeping away from home. You would have thought that we traveled all of the time. On Thursday morning we woke up to rain. We had planned on going to the zoo that day but made a change of plans. We went to the Newport Aquarium which was great. We even got Avrey to touch a horseshoe crab and a starfish! They had so many different kinds of exhibits. Jacob fed the lorikeets which he loved. Then it was back to the hotel for some rest. We decided to drive to IKEA which was about 25 minutes away and after a long ride (traffic) we were happy to get there. We had never been there before so we did not know what to expect. Little did we know, but the store was never ending inside. So after about 30 minutes with two crazy kids we gave up and decided to eat. We walked around for about 15 minutes just trying to find our way out of the store. It was crazy although it is a really awesome store. Maybe we will have to go back without kids. You could literally spend 4+ hours in there. On Friday morning we woke to beautiful weather so we headed to the zoo. The zoo was great and we saw lots of animals we have never even heard of. We were there for about 4 hours and we probably only saw half of the zoo! Overall we had a great time. Here are just a few pictures from the trip.