Lots of beaches and parks have been hit as we've been enjoying the awesomenes of summer. And one zoo... but parks beaches and zoo didn't sound as good as a title.
While Brandon was in Mexico, Logan and I had many park dates with Rachel. This picture is from the time we went to Springbank park and wading pool and ran into some cuties we know! Travelling from Stoney Creek, we definitely didn't expect to see them there... such a great surprise. And Rachel loved having playmates!
Logan and Rachel love wading pools so much, it's kind of the thing we do now when Rachel comes!
My little sister isn't so little anymore! She celebrates her 18th birthday this month (that's the same age I was when I met her!) so I wanted to do something special and mature for her birthday.. so (virgin) margaritas on the beach it was! Since Brooklyn was actually gone to camp over her birthday, we just celebrated a couple weeks early... at GT's on the beach in Port Stanley.
After supper and margaritas, we walked down the pier that is finally open. Port Stanley has had lots of upgrades in the last little while and it's really a nice beach! We rarely go there when we do a beach day (because you can't drink on the beach!) but it's so nice... especially to be able to walk the pier.
And on the way home, we hit the Shaws ice cream store (obviously). Still crazy busy at 8pm on a Wednesday. That's be the busiest place to work. We got our scoops with different flavours (because how do you eve choose just one?) then headed back to London town.
We made plans on a Saturday earlier this month to meet in Springbank for a family picnic! We met up with Aleksy's parents and Steph and Rachel. Richard set up the croquet game and taught Rachel to play. They took Logan along for the game!
We were excited to try out our new little charcoal bbq and I think this is what sparked Aleksys plan to have a picnic lunch (plus no clean up at home before and after!). We had some bbqed sausages, salads, fruit and applesauce cake then headed over to the park so Rachel could could go swimming and play! Logan was too exhausted and had an afternoon nap while she played.
Ad this past weekend we had Kincardine weekend #2! This time we spent more time on the beach... actually several hours while Aleksy and Zac went to launch and sail the sailboat over. In the 2 hours they were out, this guy slept just like this. I'm a bit jealous of his beach nap. And his shade (I didn't sunscreen where my shorts were and got a burn on my upper thighs... ouch!)
Aleksy took Monday the 25th off so we could go to the zoo! Rachel was going to be coming over that day so it worked out well that she could join in and have a fun day with us.
We went to Greenview Aviaries for the first time: the closest zoo for a good price: it cost us $38 for all of us for the day!
Driving long distances with Logan is so much easier when it's during nap time AND Rachel is in the car in case of a wake up.
My 3 zoo buddies. And a rooster. There were statues like this all over of the different animals at the zoo. And a dinosaur one.. I don't get the dinosaur one...
Rachel, me, monkey and monkey. And they had lots of different kinds of moneys. There's something about seeing monkeys that's a bit better than the other animals. Although there were pretty sweet animals at this zoo (which surprised me because it's not a huge zoo!).
Selfies with the animals!
This little goat was on the loose. He managed to escape his cage! I don't blame him! The kids love the animals (and the adults do too.. how cool is it to see a lion, zebra, bear etc??) but it's sad to see them held captive and some in small cages.
This lion was posing for us. So beautiful!
After checking out the first half of the zoo, having a picnic lunch, then the second half of the zoo, the goobster decided he had enough and zonked out like this while Rachel played on the awesome playground and in the splash pad. It was a hot humid day, so he did really well despite the temperature!
There was an awesome picnic area where we found a good sheltered spot for lunch... the playground is in the same area. We packed up some mason jar lunches (my newest obsession) the previous day so we were prepared that morning!
And the park was amazing! It was like the dairy dell that I used to go to as a kids where Billy Ts is now on Highbury. It had a zipline, a web of ropes to climb, poles to slide down and all the awesome equipment that we played on as kids that isn't around anymore (probably because it's not the safest!). Amazing! So good I had to play a bit too (I climbed the massive rope web).
And I even made it back home in time to make my 4:45 Monday gym class!
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