Great Weekend

Despite my pending head cold that I'm failing in the fight against, we've had a pretty good weekend. The kids are wiped out, as are Matt and I. Yesterday we went up to Baltimore for the afternoon/evening. We ate an early lunch and then headed out with the Port Discovery Children's Museum as our destination. Much to our surprise, we had no traffic and it took only an hour to get there. Once we arrived, we used some VIP passes that Matt had been given on a recent work trip to pay for part of our admission. And then, we entered into what I can only describe as an enormous playhouse for the kids. We spent the next 3+ hours wandering in and out of different play areas, climbing, sliding, exploring, touching, creating, and more. John and Matt even took a little class to learn how to make chewing gum! How cool is that? By 4:30 we were all totally exhausted. We stumbled out of the museum and took a walk down to the Inner Harbor pavilion area and found a Pizzeria Uno, after John insisted he wanted pepperoni pizza. We had to wait a few minutes for a table, which was a bit of a challenge with kids who were very tired and very hungry by that point. But we all survived. Then, of course, once Kara chose the dinosaur chicken nuggets to eat for dinner, John immediately switched his tune and ordered the same. No pepperoni pizza. Ah well, Matt and I enjoyed our dinner and all was well. We left Baltimore at about 7:00pm, thinking the kids would crash out on the way home, but everyone stayed awake the whole ride home. It was a great day that we all thoroughly enjoyed. There is so much to do in Baltimore that it gave us great confidence to do adventures like that again.

Today was a much slower day for us all around. The kids slept until after 8:00 and we took the whole day pretty easy. Every day can't be filled with such adventures! ;-)