That Would Be A Cold Swim

Last Friday, we took a trip with the fam (DE Harrisons + Shannon) to the Baltimore Inner Harbor. We met at Shannon's and then rode the light rail. We had to walk about four blocks, it was bitterly cold, and the wind hurt our faces. Tage walked most of the way, but also had Daddy hold her so she could bury her face in his shoulder to keep warm. I pushed Mason in the stroller, cozy in his carseat with his ganket, bundler, carseat "hat" and the sun visor to the stroller. He slept the whole time, oblivious to the trauma we were all experiencing. Once we got to the Harbor, Tage saw the water (Atlantic Ocean for those of you who are unawares... I once called it a "some kind of big lake" when Kevin and I were dating and he took me to Bower's Beach in Delaware... did I just admit that? Oh dear...) and said "I don't want to get in that water!" I guess she thought we were going swimming!

Swimming we did not... instead we went to the Baltimore Aquarium. The first thing we saw when we got there was turtles. Tage, standing at the glass and seeing the creatures swim around got SO excited! Throwing her arms up in the air, and then down to her sides, she exclaimed "TURTLES??? OH MY GOODNESS! OH MY GOODNESS!" It was hilarious! She was also pretty thrilled with the "big, big, big, snakes" and wanted to touch them, the sharks, and the sea horse. She later recounted things she saw and said "didn't see kitty at 'quarium' though" Haha, nope, no cats at the sea zoo. Sorry Tage! We asked her what her favorite thing was that she saw and she said "Fishes, that's my favorite color!"

After the Aquarium, we stopped in at Heaven... I mean the Cheesecake Factory, and had dinner, and (duh!) cheesecake. YUM!

THEN, we made the treacherous trek back to the light rail, Tage crashed in Kevin's arms, and slept the whole way back to the car (poor kiddo was so excited anticipating the train ride again, and missed it!)

Mason slept the whole trip, except a brief awakening for a snack. Once we got home, (11pm) he awoke (of course) and was up until 1am! He did great though for our first lengthy adventure out with both kids!