Our family day in the park

On our way home from the lake cabin we decided to make the last day of our "vacation" a fun day and not hang around home and work on stuff. Our destination was an easy choice- Riverfront Park. It is funny how you can live somewhere all of your life and even enjoy places as a kid and then forget how amazing they are until you have your own kids. We had a blast playing in the park all morning with Rowen. Here are a few of the highlights...

This one really wore Ro out- climbing up the ladder then sliding down the giant slide over and over again! This was probably his favorite thing to do there.

Bumper Boats- I know that it doesn't really look
like it from this photo but he did really enjoy it :).

One of the best parts of the day was that it was in the middle of the week and everyone else was at work. Rowen never had to wait in line to do anything. Here he was the only kid on the train so he got to be the conductor and ring the bell over and over again!

I was surprised how comfortable he was riding all of the rides all by himself. He loved the plane ride which is the one that scared me the most. I was sure he was going to fall out.

We rode the Carrousel MANY times. Rowen would pick out his horse while we waited in line and like I mentioned before, there were so few people there that he always got his first pick.

Ro would say, "Giddy Up!" as we rode around and around.

And of course we ended the day with the wettest part- the water fountain! Rowen didn't get too wet but he loved sitting on this rock and sticking his hands in the water to make a good splash all around him.

We also REALLY enjoyed the IMAX movie, Animalopolis! If you have little kids I would highly recommend going to see it. I was of course skeptical since we have never taken Rowen to a movie in a theater before but it was truly the PERFECT movie for him. Short, very entertaining, and educational too! He has talked about the facts he learned from the movie ever since :).

It was the perfect family day. We all had fun, Rowen was an angel and he was so worn out by the time we got back to the car that he fell asleep within seconds of taking off for home! We will definitely be going back for another fun day in the park very soon.