So, it's the end of October and we never actually did our "special" activity as a family for Graysons birthday (we had three weekends in a row with sets of grandparents visiting - which was fun, special and exhausting), so we took off a Thursday and went to the Cities for some family fun!
We started by eating at Ikea, the kids meals are only $0.99 to $1.99 and Kevin loves their meatball dinner, I kinda enjoy it as well! Then we went to the aquarium in the MOA (mall of america), expensive, but oh so fun! Grayson's favorites are the turtles small and big, Lily was really intrugued by the sharks, we really enjoyed this odd looking fish, we asked, it is called a paddle fish and when it's mouth is open, it looks like all you can see is a skeletal structure. Interesting! Plus, I didn't know that Lily has been studying fish in school right now - - bonus! We all really enjoyed the new display called Seahorse Kingdom. We also touched little sting rays and star fish and such, Lily and Grayson both participated.
We had been given some free tickets for Nickoldeon Universe as well. Each one (we had 6) ended up being good for the kids to both ride a ride together. Kevin or I had to ride with Grayson, but we went on tons of kiddy rides. They really liked the hot air balloon and swipper's cars (daddy did that one) - many squeals in delight and smiles.
We're exhausted but had a blast!
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