May 31st- This past weekend was our last weekend in Maryland. (I don't even want to talk about it- it is so hard to say goodbye! We have really loved our year here. We have made all kinds of friends and have loved just about everything about living on the east coast. Even the humidity has grown on me a bit.)
Bright and early Saturday morning we drove to the DC temple. (I love how the temple just peeks itself up over the tops of the trees as you round the corner on the freeway... such a beacon of beauty and light. We love the DC temple.)
Before heading over to the temple we dropped the kiddies off with Justin's great aunt, Janet Weeks (her and her husband Fred Weeks are serving a mission in DC right now)- and she so kindly offered to babysit for us! Thanks again Janet! You are the best! And, both of our children LOVE her!
After doing sealings in the temple together (which was so great, as always) we met our friends from Utah- Wade and Sara Jacobsen (who currently live in PA) at the visitors center and picked up their little boy, Lucas, so that we could watch him for them while they went into the temple. We took Lucas with us back to the Weeks apartment and were able to visit with Janet for a while, while the kids played. It was a great visit.
After the temple and visiting with Janet we went with the Jacobsen's to Cafe Rio for lunch and then headed to the National Zoo in DC. It is a super fun (and free!) zoo and we are so glad that we got to spend some time with the Jacobsen's there before moving back to Utah.
Cute little Lucas!
The National Zoo is the only zoo that has Panda bears! Our new favorite animal to see at the zoo by far! They were so cute!
Keaton also loved the monkeys!
And we saw naked mole rats for the first time ever! They are soooo weird! (Remember the show Kim Possible where the boy had a naked mole rat for a pet?! Ha ha.) I wish I could have gotten a better picture, but until you see them in real life you can't really get the full affect of how strange these blind and naked creatures are! They have long fang teeth that hang unnaturally out of their mouths and they live in these tube burrows and all snuggle up together... they were so weird, but fun to see at the same time! Ha, ha!
Our family with the gorilla. (Who seemed to be posing just for our pictures!)
We also loved this cute and super playful orangutan who was tucking himself into his blanket and bed of straw for a late afternoon nap. He kept fluffing his blanket and tucking it in around him- it was so cute! (I don't think I've ever been to the zoo when the animals that we saw were so interactive/fun to watch! The gorillas and the pandas were also super fun to watch! It was great and so fun for Keaton and Lucas.)
This happy girl was just content to be along for the ride in her stroller. :)
Wade and Lucas with the big dinosaur bone.
Thanks Wade and Sara for such a fun day! We are so glad we had a chance to let the kids play together and catch up with you guys!
We ended our day the same way we started it- as we got another glimpse of the temple on our drive back home.
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I don't think I ever saw this post! We had such a great time with you guys. I hope you are doing well in Utah! Hopefully we'll join you out there in a couple of years :)
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