Dayton Trip!

Dayton was so much fun! It was a really good quick vacation. We headed down to Dayton on Monday. We met my Dad and Aunt Marie in Columbus for dinner and stayed the night at my Aunt Marie's house Monday night. We got Sadie some new shoes. Love Stride Rite. BOGO sale going on now until September 6th I think. (Jerm thinks its bad advertising because it is only buy one get one half off). I say atleast its a discount. Stride Rite is my favorite place to shop lately (I know that is sad, but their shoes are so cute and so very well constructed to support little growing feet,hahahah). Anyway on with the trip. We headed to Steve's house to hang out with him and Jovie. April was at work. We missed you April. His daughter is 7 weeks old. OMG is she cute. Steve took us to the metro park by his house. Can I just say we were impressed, really impressed by the metro parks in the Dayton area. We went to 3 and they were all awesome! So Steve's metro park had a butterfly house that was beautiful and there was a dog Zip there that was a working dog. Sadie hugged him and then later I read the sign that  said do not disturb Zip. There was a shrub maze. Can you find Sadie? And Sadie drank out of a drinking fountain for the first time. I had Steve take a picture of that. We then all went to the metro park I had found online that has a children's garden. Really amazing place. We left Steve and headed to our hotel. Checked in, met up with my Dad and then we all met back up with Steve for Dinner. It was great to catch up with Steve. Alot of great memories from high school! Thanks for having us for a visit! We want to come back!

So after we left Steve, we headed back to the hotel for some swimming in the pool. Wednesday, we checked out a huge Gander Mt store on the same exit and then we went to another metro park, that Jerm had found. We had time to kill. That metro park had a farm with horses, and chickens, cows, baby piglets and lambs. Sadie loves cows. When you say "Sadie what does a cow say?" Sadie makes a mooooing sound. Now she doesn't discriminate she also was mooing at the deer on the wall at Lonestar the night before. All of these metro parks were free! Go Dayton! So we were waiting for our personal tour of the Air Force Museum. Back in May, Jerm and I went to my co-worker Kris's daughter's wedding and we sat next to the director of the museum. He was a 3 star general. Jerm was in awe. He invited us down to give us a tour. I wrote him an email last week asking him if he was available and he scheduled us from 1pm to 2:30pm. He even reserved us a parking space in the VIP area. Of course I took a picture. So the timing I thought was good. Sadie got a nap in before was got there. But she didn't last long on the tour, there is no food allowed in the museum except in the cafe. She lasted 15 minutes before I had to go feed her lunch. But my dad and Jerm got the complete tour. That place is amazing! I had no idea it was so big. And that place is free too. Their gift shop is awesome. I picked up some great gifts for Jesse. He turns 1 on Monday and is party is today. So after the tour we dropped my dad off at his van and headed back to home. We made a pit stop back at my Aunt Marie's house for dinner and of course visited another Stride Rite store to see their selection. I love the Columbus mall(s). We got home late. But as we talked in the caride home, we decided we had had a GREAT trip! Sorry for the long post.