Memorial Day Weekend

This last Memorial Day weekend was so much fun. Saturday we didn't do much since Mel got called in to work. But Sunday, after church, we took Mateo to the Florida Aquarium. It was so cute. He seemed to really like looking at all the fish. He usually gets all excited with the little fish aquariums at Walmart, so we figured he would enjoy the floor-to-ceiling aquariums. He liked all the wildlife, but I think Mateo might have enjoyed just watching all the people there a little bit more. He is such a people person. He is very much the little observer. I wanted to take him out to the water play area, but it was so windy and looked like it was about to rain. So...maybe next time.

Monday, we took Mateo to the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa. Neither Mel or I have ever been there before. Apparently, this zoo was voted #1 in the country by PARENT magazine. It was fun though. Mateo isn't quite at the age to appreciate the animals or understand much about them...but again, he enjoyed "people-watching". I look forward to when he can understand a little more and get excited about all the animals.
It was so HOT that day though. I was sweating buckets and Mateo was drinking tons of water. At the end, they have a little play area with water bubbling up out of the ground. We put Mateo in the water to cool off a little bit. He seemed to enjoy that a lot. All-in-all, we had a really good time. Although, I think the San Diego zoo is better than Lowry. But it was still a nice zoo...next time we hope to be able to make some of the shows. Since it was a holiday weekend, it was pretty packed and we didn't feel like fighting the crowds for a place to sit or to be able to see what was going on. We just took our time walking around and it turned out to be a really fun, family day.