On Friday, August 13th, 2010, we headed off for a "Family Fun Weekend" in Salina, Kansas! We met up with The Eidson's (Chris "Goo", Laura and Bella) and The Flagg's (Mike, Stephanie and Maggie) for a little weekend meet up together! It was momma's, daddy's and kids! Yippy!
Ready, set, gooooo!!!!! The start of a long, 4 hour drive to Salina! This is us pulling away from our house, excited to get on the road for our fun weekend!
Geez, this drive seems to be taking FOREVER! Are we there yet?
This is as we were turning onto I-70 in Goodland, Kansas (only 30 minutes down the road)!
These are the only pictures from Friday of the trip! We arrived in Salina and checked into our room and I was quickly laid down for my nap. After nap we went to Applebee's to eat supper and mommy, daddy and I left before ordering because I decided I didn't want to be there anymore! Or at least, I didn't want to be there if I couldn't get up and run around the busy restaurant. Apparently my momma wasn't having any of that nonsense, so we left! I mean what do they expect! I had been in a carseat for 4 hours (well 2.5 b/c we stopped in Hays for a leg stretch at Wal-Mart (where I also had to be carried out screaming b/c again, I wasn't allowed to run around the store w/o holding momma's hand) and then 1.5 for the rest of the way to Hays) and then went straight down for a 2.5 hour nap! I had some energy that needed to burned off! Momma says "can anybody say TERRIBLE TWOS are upon us!" GEEZ mom, that's not very nice!
Saturday morning, August 14th, 2010, was a much better day! I had a good nights sleep and was ready to hit the road for our daytime adventure! And this adventure not only involved me and my mom and dad but also mommy's two friends, Stephanie Flagg and Laura Eidson and their daughters Maggie and Bella! Oh and their were also other dads there besides mine! Maggie's daddy, Mike and Bella's daddy Chris, a.k.a Goo!
Our adventure for the morning was the Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure and Museum in Salina, KS!
Photo from l to r: Stephanie and Maggie Flagg; Me and my mom and Laura and Bella Eidson!
We got to see the giraffes while they were still in their houses and also when they let them outside to play! They are so tall and they like to eat sticks!
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There were all sorts of these statues all over the zoo and Maggie's mommy and daddy put her on this one to get her picture taken!
This animal is a duck and that reminded me of this thing mommy sings when it rains! It goes "quack, quack, whaddle, whaddle; quack, quack, whaddle, whaddle; we are the Delta's and your in luck; if it rains all day we'll quack like a duck!" That mommy, she sure is weird and funny!
Time for a snack break!
Bella was enjoying a snack as well!
I had already devoured my snacks and chugged my juice! Ready for round two!
This lion made my mom very, very nervous! They were several little tykes watching the lion and mommy said the lion was definitely watching us. It just paced back and forth looking like it was plotting how to get out of the cage and catch one of us for its snack! YIKES!
Mr. Mike let Maggie ride on his shoulders! I mean, sometimes a kid gets tired of riding in a stroller or walking! And this is what dad's are for, right?
Mr. Chris "Goo" giving Bella a closer look at the catfish that we fed in a pond at the zoo! That catfish was HUGE and there was also a funny little turtle eating the fish food too!
Now this bear has the right idea! I think the mommy and daddy's were jealous of this napping bear!
The Flagg family enjoying an air conditioned break in the museums kid area! They are playing with lego blocks!
The Eidson family also enjoyed the break in the kid area! Bella enjoyed the hand puppet show her momma put on for her! This area had a hand puppet for almost every animal imagineable!
Bella sure thought it was funny when her mommy was "getting" her! She was screamin and shreiking with delight!
Maggie says "Excuse me while I check my email...it's very important but it will only take a second!"
The Eidson family in the Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure Wildlife Museum!
Me cheesing out! Ha ha, I just noticed that the cheetah in the background is biting that poor zebra! I wonder why? Maybe that's not an exhibit to "cheese out" by?
Notice how red my checks are and how sweaty I look....we went to the zoo at 8am and by 10am it was 90 degrees with a lot of humidity! We sure were thankful that we went right as the zoo opened...not only because of the heat but because of the crowds as well!
After we went back to the hotel from the zoo for lunch and naps, us kids did not want to stay in a hotel room to play! We wanted out! It was too hot to do anything outside and the hotel pool was PACKED so the mommy's loaded us up and we went to the mall (notice all the excuses of why we could not hang out at the hotel, hee-hee! Mommy's are silly, us men knew what they were up to)! But of course, the mommy's knew where the men would head to while they were shopping!
The mommy's, Stephanie Flagg, specifically, thought the three of us, the three mommy's, the three cars (carseats are easier to keep in the car they go in and not try for all of us to ride together) and the three strollers was funny so we decided to do a pic of all the kids parked by the cars! LOL! Crazy momma's!
After we went shopping we met up with the daddy's at the hotel restaurant/bar...O'Malley's for some supper! Of course, the kids weren't too hungry because the mommy's were awesome and bought cookies at the mall and we had one (or three) of those while we shopped! So the while the adults were "attempting" to eat, the kids played on the couches at the restaurant! By this time in the trip Maggie, Bella and I were good friends! Those girls were so much fun!
The adults ended up packing up their suppers and bringing them back to our room to eat while the kids played and watched a movie! The bed was the best part! Bouncing and jumping and pillow fighting on the bed was probably the best part of the trip! Aside from running around the hotel lobby area like maniacs, screaming or riding the glass elevators!
I think by this time Mr. Mike had started to crack! Look at him, so silly with that tiger on his head but at least the tiger is the mascot of the school on his shirt! MIZ-ZOU!
Bella, Maggie and I jumping on the bed! I think Maggie is looking at her dad in either disbelief or embarassment or thinks he's pretty awesome with that tiger on his head! I think she thought it was pretty awesome! ;)
Maggie and her mommy playing with the pinwheel my mom and dad got me on one of our pit stops!
This was the last day of our trip to Salina, Sunday, August 15th, 2010! The adults decided we would "go out to eat!" So we went to a McDonald's with a huge play place! I'm not sure Mickey D's is what they really had in mind but this time they actually got to eat because there were all kinds of fun things for the kid to do while the adults sat and watched and visited and ate (and it was a separate room with a door on it so we were sort of coraled in)! These are my new friends and their mommy's!
Photo from l to r: Mommy, me, Stephanie and her daughter Maggie and Laura with her daughter Bella
We had such a fun time and I already miss my new girlfriends! I ask about Maggie and Bella everyday! I hope they had as much fun as I did on our family fun weekend and I can't wait to get together with them again! Hopefully soon! My daddy had a great time with Chris "Goo" and Mike too! And I know my mommy misses Laura and Stephanie all the time!
See you again friends!
Love,
Gus Gardner
