Come See, Come See

Zoo time!

Uncle Bryan, Auntie Rebecca and Tyler met up with us this morning. We walked over to York's Wild Animal Kingdom and Amusement Park to start our day off. First up was feeding the ducks. I thought that Lexi would jump right out of the stroller in her attempt to grab one of the ducks. The boys had a blast running all over the place calling "Uncle Bryan, come see, come SEE!" all day long at every single animal.

The boys' favorite, just like last year, was the alligator. We spent a while gazing into the enclosure, even though the alligators barely moved. Nicolas had a lot of fun feeding the deer while Jackson looked on. He wasn't quite brave enough to try it on his own this year. After eating a quick lunch, we headed out to the amusement park area.

This year, the favorite rides were the bumper cars, which both boys were able to go on at the same time - one with Uncle Bryan, and one with Lou and the go karts. I volunteered to hang with the little ones, so even Auntie Rebecca was able to have a ride.

Tyler and Lexi were starting to get pretty cranky, so a few more rides and we headed back to the condo. Lexi took a short nap once we got home and the boys had a blast playing with Uncle Bryan, Auntie Rebecca and Tyler. We ordered a couple of pizzas for dinner and then our guests headed home. It was an awesome day and we all had a really fun time.

You need rain for rainbows

What a perfect beach day! Luis and the boys headed out to stake out a spot on the beach. I hung around the condo waiting for Lexi to wake up from her nap, keeping busy packing lunch for everyone and fun things like that. Once she woke up from her (long!) nap (why do they always take long naps when you want them to take a relatively short one and take short ones when you need/want them to take long ones...one of life's mysteries I suppose) I popped her into her swimsuit, slapped some sunscreen on her and we walked down in search of the boys.

We found them without too much trouble, conveniently located near the bathrooms. Lexi and I found them down playing in the water and joined them for some fun, before returning to the blanket to check out the hole they had been digging "to China" (honestly - where do they get this stuff??). Lexi was obsessed with eating sand. Not sure why - it really can't taste/feel very good after the first mouthful, but everytime I looked away for the tiniest moment, her fist full of sand would immediately bring another pile to her mouth. Sigh.
Everyone enjoyed lunch and then we packed everything up and headed back so that Jackson and Lexi could take afternoon naps. We took a slight detour to the playground, but didn't stay long as it started raining while we were there. Then it started POURING as we ran to the car. Lexi was having a blast and actually got really mad when we tried taking her out of the umbrella stroller to go in the carseat, so since we were already soaked to the bone and we were both in our bathing suits, I told Luis we'd walk back and meet him and the boys back at the condo. By the time we arrived, the rain had essentially stopped and the sun came back out.



After the kids woke up from their naps, we headed over to Fox's for dinner. They remodeled the inside since last year and looked great. Luckily, the wonderful menu hadn't changed and we both had some delicious seafood. The kids behaved (more or less) and it rained while we were having dinner - but the sun came out just as we were walking out the door, treating us to a gorgeous, enormous rainbow right over the Nubble Lighthouse. It was amazing. So we all walked a bit closer to the Nubble, took a couple of pictures and headed back to Fox's for some ice cream. Yum.


Just about the most perfect vacation day.