Weekend with Grandpa and GiGi

Grandpa and GiGi came up this weekend to celebrate Robbie's birthday and check out the swing set that they bought him.  We met them for lunch Saturday afternoon and then they checked in to their hotel and we brought the kids back for their nap.  I got a break in the afternoon because Jim was the one pushing Robbie on the swing.  They also gave Robbie a remote control firetruck.   He loves it!  We went out for pizza (Robbie's favorite) and then came back to play for a while before the kids went to bed.

Saturday we drove down to St. Augustine and went to the Alligator Farm.  Unfortunately, Robbie didn't want to see alligators, he wanted to see frogs and lemurs.  Luckily, they had both!  There were also a lot of alligators.  (I guess that isn't surprising.)  We made our way around the zoo, got some popcorn and then watched them feed the alligators.  We learned that alligators don't eat as much in the winter, so it wasn't too exciting.  For lunch we went to Conch House.  We hadn't been there in almost 3 years when we went with Lisa and Erik for our birthday.  Even though we were sitting inside, they had the sliding glass doors open, so there were pigeons that came inside.  They weren't aggressive, so it was easy to forget they were there.  When Robbie was done eating he wanted to chase the pigeons, so I'm sure they were glad when we left.  After lunch Jim and Jean went home.  It was a quick weekend and we are looking forward to seeing them and more of our family at Thanksgiving.

Pictures from the Alligator Farm:

Baby alligators

Looking at the alligators

Robbie was excited about sitting on this alligator.

Poor Alex!

Snake handler Robbie.  (He loved going to both openings.  It was hard to get him away from it!)

He's too cute to be dangerous!

You can't really see Alex

Kimodo dragon ready for his close up!

Glad he can't fit through!

Buck toothed alligator

Sleeping lemurs

Just for you, Dad!

Cuban crocodile

Cuban crocodile

What's in the pumpkin?

Zookeeper feeding the alligators

Can you see the white and orange rat?  That's lunch!

Toucan

When we got there, a lot of alligators were "talking" to each other.  It was really interesting to hear their noises.



The kimodo dragon



Robbie feeding the alligators



During the alligator feeding



This one isn't great, but I love hearing Alex in the background.  He was excited about watching the alligators eat!



This is more of what you think of when you hear "alligator feeding".  (Thanks guy next to me for getting in the way!  You hear his camera rapid clicking in some of my videos.)