One of the American moms (Sara - mom of Gillian and Phoebe) discovered an indoor play centre and asked us all to come check it out today. I had mentioned ti to Ellis yesterday - told him we were going to go to Go Bananas (this is a place in Richmond that Tracey took El and Em to when Rowan was newly arrived on the scene. So - this morning after I'd been up about 5 minutes, Ellis came bounding out of his room: "I'm so excited to go to Go Bananas!" I then had to break it to him that it wasn't actually Go Bananas, but very much like it - his face looked a tad down. He has been talking about Grandmas and Grandpas and Emilies and Traceys and Maxes and Suzys a lot again lately. He wants you all to come visit. Today he wondered if we were going to move to Australia.
Anyway, he was still keen to check out Little Tigers so off we went. Of course, Rowan fell asleep as soon as I put him the car and the drive was only 20 minutes. We got to Little Tigers and Ellis was excitedly looking out the window - "is that it?" "nope, that's the Pet Barn" (same concept really). As soon as we got into the indoor play centre Ellis was off. I didn't see him until about an hour later when he stopped by for a cookie break. Note the sweat. It was nicely air conditioned - he'd just been playing non stop for the past hour. Rowan sort of enjoyed it, but he was pretty tired. At least he was free - not much longer though. Anyway - we got there around ten and didn't leave until about 1. I was exhausted and all I'd done was sit around watching Rowan steal shoes.
The mom who lives across the back had called me yesterday to see if we wanted to go to a nearby waterpark. As Ellis has daycare on Monday, I offered to go this afternoon. I was worried that Ellis would collapse from exhaustion, but we had an hour at home in between gigs and so I was relieved when she called to ask if we were still on.
The park is about a 15 min drive away along the highway -
we went over a new bridge in a place where I just did not expect a bridge to be (darn twisty river). http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?doflg=ptk&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=117167951934295914511.00048042adbff43f6938c&ll=-27.523191,152.965736&spn=0.073985,0.152092&z=13
We ended up in Jindalee at a great little park. Meg has never been there on the weekend but late in the day on a Tuesday seemed like a good time to go. Rowan loved it - it was mostly good for him - river parts that he could crawl along but then unfortunately, he would come to a river pool and just plunge in. It was just past crawling chin depth so I think he drank a lot. Ellis had a great time sending plastic beach toys down the river and racing back to the start to do it all again. There were a few river obstacles in the form of smaller children that would collect the beach toys as they drifted by only to have a wailing banshee of an Ellis come along to rip them out of their hands. They got smart and held them out to him as he played this game over and over. I got tired of bending over to rescue Rowan so pulled him out of the water (I've done something to my back - perhaps too much carting of 30 pound baby has done something). We left around 4:30 and were back in time for me to quickly fry up some lamb popsicles and oven bake some fries. Yum.
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