Year: 2011

The view from the top of the inclines.

Right in the center is the Carnegie Science Museum and the USS Requin from the other day.

Checking out the view with Uncle Matt before we took him to the airport.

We took a short tour of the under works of the inclines. It was very cool to see all the huge wheels and motors that drive the incline.

A photo of the basic design of the incline.

How the gears all work.

Riding the incline.

Going down

Heading back up.

We poked around town for a while and ended at the Phipps Conservatory. We opted not to pay to go in because it was too close to when we had to take Matt to the airport.

We ran around in the public gardens and peeked in all the windows we could.

I really liked the statue of Christopher Columbus.

I had a great time with Uncle Matt. I am glad he got to come visit in Ohio.

Grandma Susie, Uncle Matt, Emmerson, Mommy, Great Granny and me went to Lake Erie to view the frozen lake. It was amazingly cool to see the huge ice hunks.

I was fascinated with the way that the ice broke apart into little crystals.

Uncle Matt showed me how to skip stones out onto the ice. We opted for throwing them.

Good thing he had a firm grip on my hand. I probably would have fallen in! 🙂

Huge chucks of ice.

See all the crystal columns.

smash smash… very cool!

What a wonderful view. We brought back rocks to paint and a few shoes full of freezing cold sand.

I am really glad that I can share this with my Granny and Great Granny. I can’t wait to go back in the summer and try to catch a frog!

We were surprising Great Granny with a trip from Uncle Matt. Mommy took Emmerson and me to the Carnegie Science Museum. We enjoyed running around and seeing everything that they had to offer. I liked the aquariums. They even had baby seahorses that were only 1.5 weeks old.

There was an entire room of model trains.

TRAINS!

I taught Emmerson all about circuits.

I built an earthquake resistant building.

I LOVED making giant bugs.

I got to see a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach.

Don’t tell Daddy, but I got to PET it too!

More bug making.

I found lots of buttons to push and things to play with… I was in my GLORY!

We shaw a show called “Flambe”. It was all about “solutions”. I wiggled my way in between a ton of teenagers and fired out answers faster than they could. Typical me! 🙂

Just before the huge flame.

Enjoying my “pear carmel flambe” ala mode. YUMMY!

Dork!

Danger Will Robinson!

Trying to kick the computers tush at air hockey!

We toured the USS Requin. I so badly wanted to fire the torpedoes!

I was amazed that the shop could sleep 39 people. The captain had a HUGE room compared to the rest of the TINY little bunks.

I had a lot of fun on the ship.

I even found a triceratops!

As usual we had a grand time on our Ohio vacation. We went to Riverside Gardens for “Plant the Seed to Read”. The MAYOR of Youngstown read a story about colors. I kept shouting out all the answers.

He did a great time reading.

After the story time we took Grandma Susie and Great Granny Barbara back to the house and we went to Boardman Park for the Maple Sugar Festival. It was kind of boring. This one man was making bent iron. It was fun to watch him heat it up on his little stove. I was chosen to keep spinning a handle to fuel the fire to make it hotter.

I think he forgot I was there. I just kept spinning the handle and spinning and spinning.

Eventually he had me stop. I saw the hayride come back and I took off running. It was super chilly.

Thank goodness Mommy brought my super cool new Night Fury hat.

We saw many trees tapped for maple sugar. I am still amazed that it takes 30 gallons of sap from the tree to make 1 gallon of actual syrup!

Later I went digging for worms. This is always a huge highlight of my trip up to Ohio. Mommy and Grandma Susie were sitting in the garage trying to stay warm and I was LOOKING for worms… Hmmmm… I don’t think Mommy meant for me to do this!

Mommy had to replace the bricks 5 times during the trip. I just kept thinking the worms would come up!

We took a trip out to Plant City to Granma’s Huggin Farm. We got to pet a ton of animals. I loved hugging all the rabbits.

In the turkey pen I found two little quail eggs. Mommy said I have very keen spotting skills.

Showing off the eggs I spotted.

Petting a baby chick. I was more fascinated by the incubators.

My friend Zachary thought the chicks were cool too.

Granma teaching us about spring onions. I was right up front the entire tour of the garden. I asked a bunch of questions and was quick to answer when questions were asked. I really like gardening.

Talking to Granma about rosemary.

I am just so at peace in nature.

The planted garden waiting to grow.

HAYRIDE!

I call this the vampire pig. it is about a three years old and weights about 500 lbs!

Having so much fun watching the animals.

Z petting a bunny.

HORSE RIDE!

Once we wrapped up the fun of finding bugs and a mud dobber next we headed out of the farm. We grabbed a few drinks at a gas station and headed to Dinosaur World. It was getting hot hot hot outside so we didn’t stay too long. We dug for bones and visited all the dinos.

I love feeding the koi. Mommy kept telling me I was going to fall in. SO of course, I would lean out even further!

We were all tuckered out afterwards. I willing scarfed down a chicken taco from a taco cart in the parking lot of a gas station down the street. Mommy said they were some really good tacos and she was super proud of me for trying something new!