August alerted me he was up by rattling the door a couple minutes after 7. I hadn’t heard a peep.
After a breakfast smoothie we left the house at 8:15 and walked into the park a little before 9. The subway crowd seemed thinner than last week.
We walked around a little, then headed to the zoo. I took August down and he explored the children’s zoo. The horses and exhibit area first, then we went up and saw the meerkats and otters. We got to see the zoo keeper come out and feed a bucket of fish to the otters. We were the only visitors in the children’s zoo the entire time we were there.
We then went and visited the chimpanzee before walking through the water birds exhibit.
We got to the children’s museum a little after 10 and stayed for a bit over 2 hours. During that time we saw literally no other visitors on the third or second floors where we were playing. I heard a few kids down on the first floor, but never saw them. It was crazy.
We started up in the water area as we hadn’t spent a lot of time there recently. A typical visit, except he was starting to get friendly with the workers, although he would walk away when they started paying attention to him. He also was fascinated by the hand dryer. I would stick my hand in to turn it on and when he turned off he would ask for more. He wouldn’t get too close to it though. Very similar to his relationship with the vacuum cleaner.
We then went and ate lunch and then went down the the toddler room. It was really nice having the run of the place. He made the most if it, bouncing from one thing to the next.
We left and he fell right to sleep. I went to Peace Coffee. It may have been empty when I got there, and when I left there was one other customer. This MERS scare is bad for businesses, but nice for employees: both the women in the toddler room and the two women working here pretty much read the entire time.
I was finishing up War Trash and only had 15 pages left when August woke up. I finished it as he played with my empty cup and straw. Perhaps not the closest read as I had to make sure to stand between him and the stairs, keep him from throwing the garbage through the railing, and keep him away from the bird droppings in the corner.
From there we went to the wading pool. Alas, it was off. We played in the faucet for awhile instead, then went to the playground where he got nice and dirty in the sand. He sat in it and methodically dropped sand on his legs and feet. And at one point he was walking and managed to fall over and plant his face in the sand. I picked him up to find his damp nose and mouth covered in sand. A pretty sad sight.
Before we left we went and played with the chimpanzee one more time. He then directed me back to the horses. As we left the zoo we first walked by the little creek by the robots, then watched the fountains in the folktale area. He didn’t want to leave the fountains, so we sat on a bench with a view of all of them and had a second lunch.
The train was thin on the way home. On our walk home a driver in a Coupang (Korea’s version of Amazon) truck handed us a balloon out the window. August was exited by that and played with it quite a bit through the evening.
Carly got home about 20 minutes after us. His nap was kind of late, but a bit short, and he went to sleep soon after 7.
Breakfast smoothie:
Moving up to bigger shoes:
Children’s zoo:
Children’s museum:
Outside:
Home:
