Weekend Trip

Saturday we packed up and headed up to the Shedd Aqarium with the kids, Nana, Papa, Uncle Shane and Lindsey.  The drive up was fairly uneventful-Colson slept almost the whole way and Alyvia watched movies and was really good.  Once we got to the city, we found the parking garage, got organized (which takes us awhile) and headed over to the aquarium.  The walk to the aquarium was COLD and WINDY!!  It was not a nice day outside and it ended up snowing in the afternoon.  Once we made it, there was a very long line of people outside to get in. Luckily we had the strollers and went in the wheelchair/stroller accessible entrance, so much better!!!  We finally got our tickets and headed in to the aquarium.  We went to the Aquatic Show first and saw the Beluga whales, a few penguins and dolphins.  Alyvia liked it o.k. but she wasn't as impressed as I thought she would be.  She just wanted to go swimming in the "pool". 


The Beluga Whales



Dolphin jumping!

Colson liked the show!



After the show, we got lunch and then walked around the aquarium.  We saw the "pink ones" (penguins) in the underwater show area...

 The Ocean Reef exhibit was pretty cool too, Alyvia got to see her sharks that she'd been asking for all day

After we were done at the aquarium, the men went to get the cars while we waited with the kids (much too cold to walk that far with so much wind-and snow by this time).  Then we stopped at Uncle Mark's place to visit.  After our visit, we headed out of the city to Aurora.  We were going to eat in the city, but with 3 cars and 2 small kids, we decided it would be best to head out.  It was a looooong drive out of the city, and took much longer than we thought.  By the time we got to the hotel it was almost 7 p.m.  But Alyvia had waited all day to go swimming, so Alan was a good daddy and took her to the pool before we went to dinner.

She was so excited!



 We ate dinner at Chili's with the fam and then headed to bed.  Shockingly the kids BOTH slept really well at the hotel, it was great!  On Sunday we went to my grandparents house for a couple of hours.  We had a nice visit with them and then headed home.  It was a fun weekend, but it flew by really fast!!  Hope we can go back in a couple of years when Colson is older and the weather is warmer!