The Riffle Zoo: Having fun in the sun!

Since the last blog we have done some fun stuff. Thursday we went back out to the beach after nap. The kids played in the sand and then we went to the indoor pool because it would get chilling when you got out of the outdoor pools. Then we went to Carrabas for dinner - Yummy!! Yesterday, we went back out the beach in the morning. It was windy so the kids weren't too thrilled to have the sand pelting them in the face - didn't cry, they just wanted to go to the pool. We stayed out until naptime and then came in for lunch. I then went to the outlet mall!! I enjoyed 3 1/2 hours of silent shopping!! I really only got stuff for me - crazy! Then I came back and picked up Matt and the kids. We went to Barefoot to see if we could find any alligators. We went to eat at Wild Wings Cafe.

On our alligator hunt, we saw this fish and Carly said she

needed her picture with it. They never ask to get their

picture taken and this is what they deemed picture worthy.

Then we proceeded to Broadway. We went to find the kiddie rides. Harper rode his first carousel ride!! He was so funny - no smiles - very serious. He liked it, but showed no emotion! The girls also went on a train ride and an airplane ride. The airplane ride was one of those that you could pull the handle to make it go up and down. Now this brought me to tears! The girls were so excited we went over how to pull it to you to go up and push it to go down. (I failed to tell them to hold it for a while). Well, the girls were all bucked in - Chloe in the yellow plane and Carly in the red plane. Now the ride begins. Chloe's plane starts going crazy!!!!!!!!! It was rapidly going up and down, but the plane was barely spinning. Matt and I were laughing so hard we couldn't talk the child through it. We couldn't stop laughing!! I was literally crying for 10 minutes after this whole ordeal as well. Finally, Chloe stopped pulling the handle and it stopped going up and down and just stayed in one spot - at the very top. All we could hear was her crying and through the tears, her saying, "I'm all done!!!!" Now, Carly never touched her handle and was just spinning on the bottom and never moved. As soon as she heard Chloe crying, of course she started crying. This all didn't last too long before the woman stopped the ride and got them off. She got them out and handed them to us. Oh, the tears. They were telling us all about the horrible experience. We asked Carly why she was crying, and she said she couldn't see Chloe!!! That was probably the funniest $6 I have ever spent - at the girls expense of course, but still hilarious. And of course this was the one day we didn't bring the video camera with us!! They are in good spirits today about the whole thing. They even said they would attempt it with me in the plane with them - we will see. After that - we went and got ice cream. We got home around 10, but we were up this morning to see the sun rise at 7. This is a great vacation!!