We left our home in North Carolina a week ago, and this past week has been a good mix of quiet recovery and fun visits with the grandparents. On quiet days, the kids have enjoyed hanging out at the farm, playing with the dog, swimming in the pond, and roasting smores. This house is so quiet and peaceful, and there is so much here for them to explore! I have enjoyed being a guest, not doing housework or cooking, and having more opportunities to talk to my family, go running, read a book, and visit friends. (I haven't practiced my Rosetta Stone Spanish for a week though!)
But it hasn't been all down time! On Wednesday the Lightfoot grandparents drove over from Delaware to go to the Baltimore zoo with us. We had a great time! It's a very nice zoo. We spent the first hour in the kid-centered Maryland part of the zoo, which had lots of interactive exhibits, tunnels and caves to climb through, lily pads to jump across, and ended in a petting farm. Then after lunch we spent over an hour in the African themed part of the zoo. We saw rhinos taking a mud bath, zebras, lions, elephants, cheetahs, giraffes, and monkeys, oh my! We finished with the waddling penguins, which I think were Danny's favorite. By the end the kids were getting hot and tired and riding on our shoulders, so we took a tram back to the parking lot and then let them take long naps at home. That night we had dinner with ALL their grandparents together, which was really enjoyable.
We had so much fun we all decided to meet up together the next day to go to the PA Railway Museum in Strasburg. The kids LOVED being able to climb into the trains and play with all the buttons and controls. We also rode the open air train for 45 minutes through Amish farm country. It's so funny that in this country riding a train is a novelty thing, but in Spain we plan to do it all the time as an easy way to travel far with young children. It was a gorgeous day, shared with great people, and I think we enjoyed almost every minute.
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