We took you EVERYWHERE!

Alise and I went to the zoo this past weekend.

It was a nice (though hot) day, Alise's car had been fixed, we'd been to breakfast and wanted to do 'something'. Clearly doing 'something' is how we got into this whole baby mess in the first place, so we thought we'd instead do 'something else'.

Franklin Park Zoo in Boston is a great place! I was kind of surprised. It was very much unlike a lot of the Boston attractions, in that it was cheap ($13 each), it was not too crowded, and it was a place into which you can take your own food and drink. You know, I took my sister to Six Flags (the amusement park, not the baby to be of the same name) a couple of years ago when it was about 100 degrees out and humid. Being from the UK she's a delicate flower and not too used to these conditions so I thought it wise to take cold drinks with us. Not allowed into the park. Cold drinks inside the park? $5 each. What. The. Fudge. Obama, make it illegal.

Anyway. The zoo. It was cool! Zebras, giraffes, butterflies, babies, gorillas... awesome. I recommend it to anyone, and I think we'll probably find ourselves going back. This is basically what we do... we find something we like, and we go back a lot. It's how we signed up for a yearly membership to Old Sturbridge Village, and it's how we'll make it worth it by going 12 times this year.

Going to these places also gives us both chance to do what we enjoy doing best. People watching. It's easily my favorite thing in the world.

It's becoming obvious to us both now though that whereas before if we saw a baby human being while out we'd sneak peeks at it and saw 'aw' to each other, we're now spotting them and conversing in a corner:

'is that the Graco travel stroller?'
'Yeah I think so, the one with the sticky latch though'
'Yeah, I thought it might have been one of the Melbourne models at first'
'I thought that too, but the Melbourne has three pockets, that's only got two'
'You're right. Ooh! look! a McLaren stroller... 2007 model?'
'Yep, look at that red plumage on the back. Quick! take a photo before anyone notices'...

I've a feeling that we're going to be doing a lot of sightseeing over the next few months, partly to get ourselves out of the house, partly because we simply enjoy going to these places, partly because we're nerdy geeks who are trying to make absolutely sure that we're as researched as we possibly can be in all things child. So you see little alien? when you're able to talk and able to hate and are telling us that you never go anywhere or do anything fun; remember this... we really did take you everywhere!