5 Year Anniversary Trip

We have a history of spending our anniversary in exotic locations:

Year 1: St. Joseph, MO

Year 2: Kansas City, MO

Year 3: Rocheport, MO

Year 4: Kansas City, MO

Year 5: Manhattan, KS

Note how much more extravagant the odd years are. I'm in charge of the odd years and Megan takes the even years.

So this year being our fifth anniversary, we wanted to do something extra special. However we also wanted to take Hannah. We decided we would put off a really nice trip until next year and instead try something shorter and closer to home. Manhattan is one of the bigger cities within 3 hours that we haven't seen yet so we decided to go there. Plus we've already decided Hannah will be a Wildcat.

You might wonder what there is to do in Manhattan, Kansas. That's justifiable. I think the key to taking great vacations is keeping your standards of entertainment very low.

Since we weren't at home with chores to do we got to play with Hannah a lot. We realized how seldom we both give her attention at the same time. She really liked that. She had lots of coos and gurgles and smiles for us. We also picked a hotel with an indoor pool so we could take Hannah swimming for the first time. She didn't enjoy it as much as bathtime, but it was pleasant. We also got to do cheesy-family-vacation-stuff that Megan and I like doing... we went to the zoo, we walked around campus and saw the gardens and insect zoo, we walked around Aggieville and ate at some neat restaurants, we went to an art museum.

Megan made a web album if you're interested in more pictures of the trip.

What's new with Hannah:

The first is running. With the snuzzler inside the jogging stroller, Hannah doesn't flop around, and as long as I just use roads, the stroller is very smooth and there's no shaking at all. It's actually smoother than walking with the small-wheeled stroller that we have. Hannah has been on two runs so far. The second is sleeping. Now Hannah almost always sleeps from when we put her to bed (9:00-10:00) until about 5:00. That makes Megan very happy.