Family Road Trip

Before a couple weeks ago, the three of us had never been on family vacation!  We had always been with either Tony's parents or my parents.  Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. :)  We decided to take a mini vacation over Memorial Day weekend and headed to Denver, CO.  Neither of us had been and we figured it would be less crowded and less expensive than other places like San Diego over the holiday weekend.

Audrey did fabulously in the car.  I probably complained more than she did.  She loved our hotel room and slept relatively well.  She cut BOTH of her top teeth on the trip so she struggled a bit at night with the pain from that.  We went to the Denver zoo, which was HUGE, and to the children's museum there as well.  It was all about Audrey but we sure had fun, too!  I'm just going to unload all of our pictures and hope that I can explain what each of them is.

Denver Zoo Day:

We ate at a nearby Mexican restaurant.  It was SO yummy and Audrey loved her black bean soup.

Children's Museum:
(we really loved this place because they had a HUGE area just for babies and toddlers!  You had to take your shoes off, wear these special booties, and the floor was super soft so the babes could crawl around pain-free.   We spent probably an hour in this area.  Audrey had a blast exploring and meeting other kids.)

Playing in the firefighter exhibit.

 

Learning how to crawl UNDER smoke.  I thought it was water and was really confused.  It made much more sense when Tony explained that it was supposed to be smoke :)

Baby area!

Our super awesome booties.  I actually thought Audrey's were pretty dang cute, lol

"Moooom quit taking pictuuuuuures."

Okay, how stinking cute it she?!

I don't know if you can tell, but there's a poof of smoke in the picture.  That's what happened when Tony popped this bubble. :)

Of course, Audrey was enthralled with the HUGE magnet board.

Ah, the maraca. We were quickly browsing through the gift shop, not really planning to buy anything when Audrey spotted this maraca.  She picked it up, shook it, and it was love at first sight.  When we tried to put it back she lost it and so Tony caved and bought it for her :).  It was only $2, and we hadn't gotten any souvenirs yet :)  She slept with it that night, haha.

Okay, I'll stop with the pictures!  We had a really fun time on our short trip.  I could have used *one* more day, but it was still fun and it was nice to spend time with Tony and not have to clean!  The housekeeping service at the hotel was probably my favorite part.  I can't wait to take more fun family trips!