We went up to Chicago this weekend to take Ally to Shedd Aquarium. Had been thinking about it for a while, and now that Rob has weekends free, it's much easier to go on trips like that. Ally had a great time. We told her about it Friday night, and Rob showed her the website. She was fascinated with the snake she saw. She really wanted to go see that snake. At bedtime, she gave no arguement, because she needed to get lots of rest so we could go see the snake tomorrow! When she woke up, she was bouncing off the walls. She had switched from the snake to the sharks though. We got to hear something like this:
"When we swim with the sharks they will bite us!" "Are we going to see those bad sharks?" "Sharks will bite our fingers and they will fall off" "Sharks are in the water and when we go in the water they will bite us!" and so on and so forth. But the weird thing was, she wasn't acting scared, she was just acting excited about it all. I think she watches too much Discovery Channel with her dad.
Anyway, we spent the day wandering about, and Ally had a great time. Anya sat in the stroller and rode around staring at everyone. Rob and I alternated lifting Ally up to see things, and we basically wore ourselves out. We saw lots of sharks and fish and whales etc. There was only 1 snake though, and he was kinda balled up so you couldn't see much of him. Ally was disappointed in that. We stopped at Rob's dad's on the way home, and let Anya get down a little. She was going crazy not being able to squirm around on the floor all day. We let Ally watch the portable DVD player for the first time. She absolutely loved it! which is why we hadn't let her watch it before.