Things this year fell together rather nicely. Ethan (with help of his grandparents) had got us tickets for Adventure Aquarium. On top of it, we had reward points built up from our extended hotel stay last year to pay for the hotel. Sweet :) I was really looking forward to seeing how this animal based tripped would go. I've said it before, if there's one thing Ethan knows it's animals and trucks!
Saturday morning we got up and went to "the egg store" as per usual. We also went to Little Gym. It worked out perfectly because we were able to travel over nap time! Hurray! We had beautiful, sunny 70 degree weather. Going to the zoo in that type of weather is always awesome- the people are happy, and the animals are happy and active. Win-win. Ethan loved the zoo! We started at the big cats exhibit. He was a little intimidated the first time that a jaguar walked right next to him at the glass window, but even got over that rather quickly. He really enjoyed watching the jaguars and the tigers especially. As a kid who really knows his animals, he was most excited to see the hippos. "Hippos, Zebras, Giraffes!" He was quite excited to see the penguins and flamingos too. Sometimes he got so excited that I'm not sure his feet were hitting the ground when he ran. He had such a good time that we actually went back and did another loop of the zoo, hitting all the highlights a second time.
Then we checked into the hotel. We stayed at The Inn a Penn, a beautiful four star hotel. You know, the kind where you're tipping people every time you turn around. Real nice place. We ate dinner at an Italian place that had been recommended to us. Best part is that it was attached right to the hotel. I had thought ahead this time, and brought stickers with us, so we were able to finish a nice dinner in a good eating establishment. The food wasn't amazing, but it was good, and different, and we enjoyed our time out. It is had to go too wrong with homemade noodles. Ethan's favorite part was the "bubble water" (sparkling water) that we had with dinner. I also loved that our kid with a noodle aversion ate a good deal of spaghetti noodles off his daddy's plate. After dinner we got cleaned up for bed. To our surprise, Ethan went to bed easily and slept through the night in his pack and play. Awesome.
Sunday morning we had an awesome continental breakfast at the hotel. We were a big shy about the idea of another hotel continental breakfast. I think we've had enough of those to last a lifetime, but this breakfast was truly awesome. Cook to order omelets and real oatmeal with any topping you could think of. Lots of other things too, but those were my favorites. Yummo.
We headed across the Ben Franklin bridge to Adventure Aquarium. We got there right as they opened, so we did a good bit of the aquarium without any crowds. The aquarium still seemed so nice and new, and the exhibits were very well done. The highlight for me was the hammerhead sharks- Adventure Aquarium is one of two aquariums in the country to have hammerheads. Cool, right?! I also really liked the shark tunnel. Ethan enjoyed the kids play area a lot. He was very excited to see the seals, penguins, and hippos. He really like the sharks too! At one point he was so pleased to point out that he was wearing sharks on his shirt too!! Just like the zoo, we had to do a second lap of the aquarium to re-do some of the highlights!
We headed home Sunday afternoon. Ethan napped in the car on the way home--a blessing, although Mommy and Daddy sure could have used a nap when we got home too :)
Bottom line- we had a fantastic trip! What a great weekend :)
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