Day 2 &3 of Vacation

The water park was a huge bust yesterday.  Madison hated it.  Last summer she loved the pool and we haven't been there yet this year, but we assumed she would like it this year too.  On the website it sounded like it would be fun for her, but they had nothing for her.  There was a bunch of buckets everywhere that constantly dumped water on you and there wasn't any little kid areas.  Ben tried to take Madison down a kids waterslide and got in trouble for it.  We spent most of the hour we were there sitting and watching Madison eat goldfish.

We spent most of the rest of the day trying to find something fun to do.  Ben for some reason did not want to go back to the Children's museum and our pool was an outdoor one.  Since it was about 95 degrees and the pool was in the sun that was out of the question!  We eventually found a little pizza place that had a bunch of games and things in it.  They had a nice play area for little kids.  Madison really enjoyed crawling through the tunnel, climbing up on the play area and running around.  Her favorite thing to do (we did it 3 times and she still wanted more!) was riding on the little train.  They had a little one person train that you could put a token in and ride around the track.  She could sit on it all by herself and she thought it was great!

We went to the Omaha zoo today.  I think Madison did enjoy parts of it, but it is just way too hot and sleeping in a motel just hasn't been the greatest thing for her.  Apparently it is world championship baseball tournaments this week and Olympic swim trials so the motel has been very crowded and incredibly noisy!  She hasn't really gotten to take a nap all week and I know that it is hard for her to sleep in the pack and play.  She is such a mover and all over in the crib, the pack and play just isn't big enough!  Plus the fact that it hasn't been under 90 degrees all week with really high humidity hasn't helped either!

We watched the polar bear being fed at the zoo.  We only stayed for a little while.  We watched him eat carrots and apples.  I hope they fed him more than that after we left!

We did spend a few hours walking around the zoo today though and are going to try for a few hours tomorrow before he head home.  Madison spent most of the time in the stroller, surprisingly!  When she did get out she thought I needed to hold her, way too hot for that!  You know it is hot if Madison refuses to run around outside!  She did enjoy looking around at some of the animals and really enjoyed playing on the train and riding the carousel.  She apparently really likes trains!

This picture was taken shortly before we left the zoo today.  I call it the "I'm tired, I'm hot and I'm not giving you your water back until you get me somewhere cool!" picture.