April

Trip to Columbia, SC

 Once a year we try to take a family trip down to the Columbia, SC temple. We get a hotel to stay overnight and take turns attending a session at the temple. It was spring break, so we drove down a little earlier this time and did some swimming in the hotel pool. The kids just had a blast! I went to the temple that night. 

Unfortunately no one slept very well that night. Andy cried a lot and didn't want to sleep in the pack n play. But we had a yummy big breakfast and Joel went to the temple that morning. I took the kids to Walmart to get some diapers and rash cream because Andy had not been feeling well and had a diaper rash. Then we went back to the hotel, packed everything up and checked out. After picking up Daddy from the temple we looked around the book store across the street (Nephi's Books). Later we realized that Lucy left her Dalmatian dog stuffed animal there :(  Hopefully we'll be able to pick it up the next time we go to the temple.

Then we drove over to the Columbia Zoo. Compared to our small zoo here in Greenville, SC this one was huge! We all had a lot of fun walking around looking at the animals. Our favorite was the penguins. Watching them swim around was awesome! The kids rode the Carousel and played on a little playground there too. After everyone was sufficiently exhausted, we drove on home. It's about a 90 minute drive. And we all had a good night's sleep that night!