Wild Adventures!!

Last weekend, I got to have a Saturday off in celebration of passing the first of the big deadlines during tax season.  It was so incredibly nice to sleep until 7, normally I have to be up by 5 on Saturdays!  Well I decided that Clay needed a much deserved break from single parenting so Gavin and I headed out to a baby shower for a friend of mine where he was fawned over by all of the attendees.  Of course he ate all the attention up along with the blueberry muffins and mini chicken biscuits.  Then we headed over to Wal-mart to take care of another chore that has been left to Clay lately, grocery shopping!  Gavin LOVES Wal-mart, probably because there are thousands of people to look at and to give him attention.  So we enjoyed several hours of just me and him hanging out before we headed back to the house so he could take a nap before our big trip to Wild Adventures that afternoon.

Thanks to Aunt E inviting us on Bring A Friend Day, we were able to go to Wild Adventures for free!  For any of you that have been out there lately, you know what a savings that was!  Well, Gavin absolutely loved it!  There were rides he could ride, animals to look at, and even some animals he could touch.  And to top it all off, his friend Jackson bought him a fake tattoo of a rhinoceros that Gavin thought made him look super tough :-) .  Our stupid camera batteries died right after we got there so I only got a few pictures, hopefully Aunt E got some better ones and I can post those later.

I don't know if you can tell from the sweat on Gavin but it was hotter than the hinges of you know where.  This was right after we got there, poor baby!  He is also looking a little extra pasty because we had slathered him up with sunscreen that was so thick you couldn't rub it all in.

Our first stop was the merry go round.  I don't do rides that go in circles, so Clay got to take him.

Next came the small train ride, where Gavin seemed much more interested in what was going on in the car behind us, than the ride itself.  

 Then we rode the jeeps, which I am not sure how much Gavin enjoyed.  But I know that I didn't like it, even this tiny bit of a circle made me car sick :-).  What a wimp!!

The last ride in this little kiddie section was the Bee Ride.  I really wasn't sure about this, it goes way up high and in circles.  I wasn't so much afraid that Gavin would get hurt, because I knew Clay was blocking him from sliding out, but I was afraid Gavin would hate it and scream the whole time.  Well he proved me wrong, he seemed to really enjoy it.  This ride made even Clay sick!  They probably would have had to stop it then if I had been on there!!

Look at him holding on to the rail with his tiny little hands!! How cute!

After that we went to see the snakes, which Gavin enjoyed entirely too much.  I went ahead and let him know that a snake was not a pet at our house!!  Next stop was the aviary where they let a bunch of tropical looking birds fly around and you can feed them nectar.  You can't really see the bird in the picture below, look for the bright colors by the monkey grass.  It was pretty cool and very noisy!  Gavin really liked it and tried to grab any bird that he could get close to, so I know this will definitely be a repeat attraction next time we go.

Well, that is where the camera ended :-(.  After the birds we went to the petting zoo, where Gavin got to pet some sheep and goats.  Then we stood in line for days for this one last train ride, that Gavin got denied in because he didn't have his shoes on!!  I was so ill, but oh well, rules are rules.  We finished the wonderful afternoon with some excellent bar b que and beans.  Gavin barely made it out of the park and back to the car before he was dead asleep.  He had such a good time and we will definitely be getting some park passes soon!  What better way to entertain a kid when it is a million degrees outside, especially when the water park opens!!  Can't wait!