We did a lot everyday that first week. We took Leo to a Nature Preserve for a Nature Day, we took him to the children's museum, to the library, to the Nature and Science Museum and of course to Toys R Us and various other stores and places. The first week we were there, the weather was quite cool!
Playing on a "Sprayground"!
At the Wilkerson Nature Preserve. Nature Day for Children.
We went back and forth about going to this event simply because it was SO far away from the house. At the very last minute, we decided to make some sandwiches and go anyway. We are so happy we decided to go because it was an extremely good and fun event. Leo had a blast.
He tried on Ladybug wings and got a net to look for bugs (which we didn't find any).
He LOVED the HUGE sandbox and "fishing" in the little pool.
Drawing with chalk with one of the employees.
We thought we'd have lunch and head back home but after eating, Leo ran to the bubble making station. So we stayed a while longer!
One evening we had dinner at the Nantucket Grill. It's in such a nice shopping strip with several other restaurants and lots of space for kids to play. We brought Leo's little Blaze truck so that he could ride around. Wow did his little legs make that thing zip along! He even shared his truck with another boy there who so obviously wanted a ride on it.
These pictures are taken at the Children's Museum. The museum's name is Marbles.
Guillermo checked out the vegetable garden there while Leo played in the sand.
These pictures are from the Museum of Science and Nature
Riding the train which went through an actual tunnel! Not sure what Leo thought of all that screaming, but on the second loop of the train, he climbed into Guillermo's lap when the train came out of the tunnel.
A little farm section
There is a fantastic Dinosaur section at this Nature Museum. The dinosaurs look so realistic and are placed among the vegetation so that they almost seem real. Leo LOVED it in there!
This was the only dinosaur out in the open and that could be touched.
Nature play in tree houses and streams
We got to this sand area pretty late on our visit so he was pretty angry when we had to leave, but we could tell he was getting tired.
Unfortunately, a week before our trip was over, Leo got sick. Then Eva got sick. Then I did. Then Fernando got a LITTLE bit sick. Guillermo just felt funny but never actually got sick. So, that made our last week there a little different. We didn't go out much anymore except to pick up stuff from the store and we did one more library trip. Everyone was better by the time we left and we were glad for that. We were also happy to have been there to help them through that rough period of sickness.
Our trip home was somewhat eventful. I texted Fernando that we were on the plane and getting ready to leave. He texted back saying he hopes we get out of there before the storms hit because it was really POURING at their house. We looked out the plane window and were shocked to see how dark it was out there (it was only 5:45pm) so we knew the storms were close. Sure enough, the pilot comes on saying we have to sit tight until the storms pass, but that fortunately the storms are moving quickly.
So we waited and waited and waited and finally the storms hit. Then we're finally cleared for takeoff, but are subsequently informed that since some planes had been circling in the air waiting for the storms to pass, those planes needed to land before we could take off, since they were running low on fuel. So we wait some more. Then we are cleared for take off again. That was soon dashed when the pilot comes back on saying we need to go back to the gate because we had been idling so long that now WE were low on fuel!!! So back to the gate we go. Fortunately, they let us get off the plane for a little while because there was no way to refuel since new storms had cropped up and planes can't be fueled with lightning around. Once the storms passed and the plane was refueled, they called everyone back on to the plane. That took a little while also. Finally, 3 hours after we were SUPPOSED to take off, we finally actually really did take off.
Another slight wait once in Atlanta because we were told we needed to wait for a Delta flight to back away from the gate. We thought our plane was going to take that gate, but after the Delta backed up and left, we taxied on to a much farther gate. Who knows.
This whole event was not distressing to us since we were actually going home and were on a direct flight, which meant we had no connection in Atlanta to possibly miss. We weren't going to miss our flight because we were already on it!!! So that was good. We finally got home at 1am.
