We left Saturday morning, June 11th after breakfast. Sawyer was up at 5:30am! It worked out perfectly though because we left our house around 8am and he fell asleep and slept almost the whole way! We met Ashlee's brother Travis, his girlfriend Sarah, Ashlee's sister Kayla, and her friend BJ at the Zoo. It was a family packed day!
We arrived around 10:30 and starting walking around checking out the animals. Sawyer wasn't too interested and just hung out in his stroller. I think he was more interested in people watching then looking at the animals, lol. Around 11:30 Sawyer was restless and cranky so we headed to the picnic tables to eat lunch. We packed our own that way we had control over what was available and a lot cheaper! Of course Sawyer wanted to run around and not eat. He ate a little bit of sandwich and then an oreo. He was quite the crankster and got upset when we wouldn't give him another oreo.
After lunch we went back to walking around the zoo. There was a petting zoo and they also had fish and ducks which Sawyer was pretty interested in. There was a gate around the pond and Sawyer kept taking my hand and putting it on the gate thinking I could open it and let him in with the fish and ducks, lol.
The last thing we saw was the dinosaur exhibit. Sawyer LOVED it! The dinosaurs roared and moved their heads around. Sawyer just walked around looking at them all laughing and smiling. It was super cute!
After the zoo we headed to our hotel. We stayed at the Ramada Inn on Merle Hay Road. It was before check in time but thankfully they had a room ready and let us in early. We lugged all of our stuff in and then
decided to check out the water park. The water park was very neat! Sawyer wasn't so sure about the pool at first but when it was time to leave for dinner he didn't want to go.
We met up with Ashlee's siblings at Spaghetti Works for dinner. Sawyer was starved and almost ate his whole cheese pizza! Glad he finally ate some real food! :) After dinner it was back to the hotel for more water fun!
This time at the water park Sawyer loved it! He was walking all over in the kiddie pool and loved the ground water shooters! He wasn't too impressed with the sprinklers shooting from the pirate ship though. He was getting brave and even stuck his face in the water a couple of times. He also thought he could run in the pool and went under water but it didn't phase him. Then the fun began. Someone figured out they could get out of the pool and walk around the other pools.
Sawyer had spotted the hot tub and kept trying to climb in. Thankfully I grabbed him each time and we went back to the kiddie pool but he kept getting out and walking around. Finally I took him into the big pool. He wasn't too sure of it at first but then decided he didn't need Mommy and was trying to push me away. So back to the kiddie pool. Finally after an hour of getting in and out of the pools Mommy and Daddy had enough.
We went back to our room where a melt down began, Sawyer, not us parents. :) We got dressed but Sawyer was MAD and kept taking us to the door. It was around 8pm and we had a tired, and very cranky toddler! We decided we should head for home. We knew there was no way he was going to sleep without a big fight! So we packed up, loaded the car and headed for home. We hadn't been driving for even 5 minutes and Sawyer was passed out! We arrived home shortly after 10pm and we were able to put our sleeping toddler in his own bed.
Hopefully we can try again next year with better results. :)
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| Looking at the fish and ducks |
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| Ooo dinosaur's |
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| After the zoo |
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| Ready to swim |
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| Sprinklers! |
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| Water slide with Mommy |
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| Loving the water |
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