11Jan2009: Day 230: Hannah!

Makenna finally was able to see Hannah today and she was very excited. The time that we go to church got moved to 11am so there was no nap in the morning for Makenna. I'm glad it's earlier but it goes right through lunch. So I was sure to pack some food. Hannah had no qualms about seeing what I brought to eat for Makenna and vice versa. Makenna went right into the row where Hannah's family sits and started to rummage through their food.

It's kind of frustrating to go to museums, in my opinion, with a two year old as you can't really stay and look at any one thing. In the museum for the Mary Rose (from yesterday's post,) there was an area where Makenna could turn a ships wheel and press buttons to hear the sounds of old instruments. Another button was of a little girl singing and there was another area where she could pull a rope and it would raise a sail. This other thing they had was a place you could smell the different things from back then. I can't remember what they were, but they all smelled the same. I think one was overpowering the other smells - not that it smelled bad. Makenna thought it was funny to move the pieces of wood and sniff.

I tried walking around to find other things for her to do/press but there wasn't much else and she kept wanting to go back to that area. So I gave up hope and decided that Chris was getting the education and that he had to write yesterday's blog. Not to mention that he hasn't written one in a very long time.

We also seem to pick days to go see boats on cold windy days. It was so cold (how cold was it...?) it was so cold that practically the whole two hour drive down, the trees and grass along the drive were all frozen. It looked really pretty but it wreaked havoc on our windshield wiper fluid. It was frozen the whole trip and with all the gritting (salt) on the roads it was hard to see. We stopped to get more fluid, as I thought we were out. We were low but that wasn't the problem. There was a nice man who cleaned off our windows and explained that it takes a long while for the lines to become unfrozen. I told him we've been driving over an hour and he said that it didn't matter. Of course, by the time we left Portsmouth the fluid worked.