Spring Break

 Neal and Owen at the Airplane museum
 Owen enjoying some time out of his stroller
 A ferry ride around Seattle

 The kids at the Seattle Zoo

This year for spring break we decided to go explore Seattle. Just a nice little 3 hour road trip.

We had a lot fun fun. The girls only request was that we go to the zoo, so that was our first stop. than we took full advance of our hotel's swimming pool for the rest of the night.

The next day was our big sight seeing day. we saw the aquarium (which was so crowded that the girls really didn't enjoy it). Than off to a ferry ride where Mae fell asleep. Than a short walk over to Pike's Market where they throw the fish and sell a lot of cool things. The girls saw pussy willows for the first time at the market. Our last stop for the day was the Science museum. Owen really loved this place because they had a toddler place that he could get down and crawl around. He really loved playing in the Helicopter and pushing buttons that lit up. Now as we are heading back to the hotel we discover that Mae has a raging fever and a croup sounding cough has started. So our last stop for the night was to the drug store for some cough medicine.

On Wednesday, our last day in Seattle we stop off at the flight museum which had some really cool airplanes there and some fun hands on things for the kids. And of course Mae was running a fever and coughing like crazy but she had taken some medicine before we left the hotel, so she was a trooper. But Wednesday was really MY spring break... I found a great deal on tickets to the Broadway play Wicked playing in Portland Oregon. So I convinced Neal to extend our road trip by a night so that he and I could go to the play. My sister was also willing to make a little trip to Portland to babysit the kids for us. (thanks Megan) It was good have have someone there who knows our kids. 

Than of course on the ride home we had two sick kids and a baby who was done being in the car to end off our trip. Those last few hours in the car really make it special to be home.