Busy Saturday

It's the weekend!!! YAY! And being that it's the weekend, I wanted to have lots of fun things planned. In order to attract people to down town Fort Wayne, the city offers special deals on fun things to do on the last Saturday of every month. So, I picked out a couple that I thought would be fun to do...

Little did I know that the day would turn out EVEN better than I planned. First of all let me say, that I knew there was a bike race going on in the city, but I had NO IDEA that it would be running in front of our apartment... but not only running in front of our apartment, but starting and ending in front of it too. AND since there is a bike race, that means that the street has been closed to traffic since some time last night when we were asleep. That means that I had the best night sleep since we got here, and that Jack slept past 6:30 for the first time since moving in! It was wonderful, and it was even perfectly quiet during Jack's nap time too. Huge bonus. Made me wish for a bike race every day. And it was awesome that we could watch from our windows.

The first race started just as Jack was waking up from his nap. So, we ran downstairs to watch. Jack kept saying "WOOOOW!" every time the bikers would do a lap. This has been so perfect for him, because he has been really interested in bikes lately.

So anyway, we watched the first race, and Jack rang his little hand-out bell every time the bikers went by. He was so cute. MORE COWBELL!

 Then it was off to the Children's Science Museum, for half price admission day. That was a lot of fun too because Jack was older and could appreciate more of the activities. His favorites were the parachute drop, space rover maneuver-er (similar to one of those claw games when you try to pick up a teddy bear), and of course, the water table, and a tornado simulator. There was also a news anchor desk where you could talk into a microphone and pretend to be a weather man. He liked the microphone and was quite bent on shoving it as far into his mouth as he could in order to get the loudest noise possible. Jack also fell down and bonked his head pretty dang hard on the ground and gave himself a nice goose egg on his forehead. Poor little guy.

The museum was fun, so we hung out there for a couple of hours and then decided it was time for dinner. We decided that we were going to try this place called Coney Island Hot Dogs. We have heard a lot about it and it is even highly rated online. I thought that I would be safe... For those of you who know me, it takes a lot for me to eat a hot dog. I'm just not that kinda gal typically (after I witnessed first hand how they are made). Anyway, we tried it, and let's just say we won't be going back. I guess you can't trust a place called Coney Island when it is in fact located in Indiana. But it was a Fort Wayne experience that we should have had, just for the sake of it. Been there, done that.

After hot dogs, we walked back over to One Summit Square to watch more of the bike races, and listen to the Beatles cover bands that were playing as we lounged on our blanket. Such a fun way to end a busy day. Relaxing (or semi-relaxing because of Jack) while we listened to fun music in the gorgeous weather. Jack of course had fun throwing his tennis ball around, finding rocks, and squirting everyone with his spray bottle.

Now that it's after 9 p.m. and the music is still going, I must admit that the bands aren't as cool anymore. It's pretty noisy in our apartment. I guess there had to be a down side to the day some where. Oh well, at least Jack is sleeping through all of the noise (with the help of a humidifier and box fan running).