Theme Park fun

As promised, here's the second installment of our PA trip. One fun outing was to a local theme park (which Kelli frequented growing up) which includes, among other things, and area called "Storybook Forest". As you'll see in the pictures, it's basically large nursery rhyme scenes. Nathaniel may not have his nursey rhymes memorized yet, but he could tell this was a less much more interesting place to walk around than most grown-up places.

As we carried Nathaniel through this area, he frequently "asked" to be transferred from person to person, by leaning and reaaching in the direction of his newly-preferred carrier. When we got to Little Red Riding Hood, Nathaniel decided he'd like to go see her, and we obliged. Below you see him realizing that the person holding him is definitely NOT someone he knows. At least she wasn't the Big Bad Wolf.

Time for a short lunch break (the boy LOVES bananas).

Then we were able to work in a ride on a merry-go-round and a train before Nathaniel's need for sleep outweighed his enjoyment of the entertainment. On the way out of the park we also discovered that Nathaniel is a BIG fan of a slushee, flavored blue #6. He only got a few spoonfuls, but probably would have been glad to finish off the whole thing.

Summer fun doesn't necessarily mean leaving home, though. Witness Frog-Pool. Again, Nathaniel enjoyed it, and the adults enjoyed watching him even more.

The sprinkler feature was a little startling at first...

But once he got the hang of it (and we turned down the water pressure a little), he thought it was a lot of fun.

So as you can see, we had a lot of fun and quality family time in a short period. We're already looking forward to next year's trip.