This year, in an effort to save some money, we did not book our relaxing trip to Edisto Island beach. Instead, we opted to take an "educational" vacation & headed to Washington DC to check out museums. We stayed with Todd's brother, sister-in-law, nephew, and niece just outside the city.
On our way up to DC, we stopped over in NC at my mom's house. We were there on father's day and spent some time with Great-Grandpa Nunn. Mercer played with lincoln logs, did cartwheels, and generally entertained grandma and grandpa both. They are always amazed by the amount of energy that the little guy has! 
Here's Mercer crawling on a rhino sculpture that we had him propped up on when he was just 2 months old (check out the blog post from April of 2008)
We love going to the NC Zoo when we can; we made a special effort to go there this trip because there's a unique exhibit there this summer: animatronic dinosaurs! We thought that Mercer would be really enjoy it, however, he did seem to be a little bit scared of these towering 'animals' which moved, snorted, and even spit water. (Here are a couple of shots of the dinos in motion.)
Little guy rushed through this part of the zoo. He hung out at the end of the dinosaur exhibit digging in a sand pile for fossils. It was interesting to see the heights, weights (some of them were 8 - 16 tons each), and some factoids on each one.
We only went through 1/2 of the zoo -- stopping off for photos, to cool off in a misting tree, flying a helicopter, and climbing on and in the artwork throughout the park.
Here's a shot of Todd & Mercer (in an unique father's day pose) and another shot of Aunt Sandra, Grandma, and Mercer.
The following morning, we got to see my dad too! He and Charlie happened to be in NC at the same time as us. We enjoyed breakfast with them before hitting the road and heading to DC.The next blog post (coming soon) will continue our journey north.
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