Jacksonville Trip: Part Four

This morning we took the boys to the Jacksonville Zoo. I have lots of pictures like this of the boys looking at the animals:
We got to go on a train ride around the park:
...and feed the giraffes:
...and look at some snakes:
It was actually a little concerning how much the boys loved watching the snakes. Noah giggled like they were the funniest things ever. We even got to see one eat a mouse.

Over all, I think the elephants were the biggest hit. Noah picked out a stuffed elephant from the gift shop (Charlie picked out a penguin, but we didn't go see those, it was getting hot and approaching lunchtime. Charlie impressed Sam by telling him penguins are birds that walk and swim.)

Jacksonville Trip: Part Three

After our trip to Mr. Crabs house, we walked to the beach. We stayed right on the beach so this was very convenient. The water was all choppy and Charlie LOVED it!

This random dog decided it wanted to play fetch with us.

Noah HATED the ocean. He screamed every time Sam got close to the edge of the water and was clinging to him.

Charlie and Sam tried to talk Noah into sticking his toe in....but he would have no part of it!

Charlie really loved the big waves and pumped in and tried to splash back. He didn't want to leave!

Jacsonville Trip: Part Two

By the time we made it to our hotel, Charlie was happy to get out of the car and looked like this:
Our poor Noah baby was worn out and looked like this:
...so we decided we would try to get them to take a nap. Yeah, right. They were ready to keep going! We decided we would take them to an arcade/water park place. We tried to get them to play putt-putt, and they got the general idea that the ball goes in the hole, but failed to participate in an orderly game.
Later, we took them on the go-carts. They both really seemed to enjoy going fast...we will have to find some closer we can take them on.
We went to dinner at Joe's Crab Shack, which Charlie called Mr. Crabs House and kept asking where all the characters from Spongbob were.

Jacksonville Trip: Part one

The first leg of our Jacksonville trip was visiting the Hands On Children's Museum. This place had an impressive website, but turned out to not be what we were expecting. The boys still had a good time and I got to beat Sam at tick-tac-toe, and he is the Checkers champion.

Noah, Driving the ambulance

Charlie spent most of the visit playing on the train tables.

The boys loved the ball pit. I let them play in it despite all those e-mail that warn about dirty diapers and used drug needles people claimed to have found in ball pits.

We moved to a different room and Charlie found more vehicle toys.

Charlie on the firetruck.