Knock, knock

This weekend our family drove down to San Antonio to spend a couple of days hanging out before heading up to College Station to watch Travis play in the Firefighter Olympics. The Riverwalk was a huge hit with Little Man, especially since we ended with dinner at the Rainforest Café. We ended dinner by ordering a “Volcano” which is really just a huge pile of cake and ice cream with a fake sparkler coming out the top but it is a big hit because all of the wait staff bring it out yelling “Watch out! Volcano!!!!” Look at that sweet face!

The next morning we headed out to Sea World to brave the heat and catch 2 shows (20 minutes each) and 1 exhibit in 4 ½ hours. It was very hot and very crowded. I’ve received some concerned and downright strange looks from people when we have told them that we were bringing June Bug with us to Sea World in the dead of Summer but we were well prepared. We closed up the top of her car seat and the top of the stroller and attached fans at the openings thinking it would just keep her cool enough not to be miserable but there were actually several times when we had to turn off the fans because she was crying from being too cold. One lady at the Sea Lion show had a few choice words to say to me about bringing my infant out in the heat so I had her feel June Bug’s ice cold foot. She left me alone after that.

On the way from San Antonio to College Station, Travis and I were desperate to entertain Little Man because his “game” of choice was to make that obnoxious sound from Dumb and Dumber, you know the one, over and over again. We tried to teach him how to tell knock knock jokes and after 15-20 minutes we gave up; he is just too literal. We would tell this joke….

Knock, knock
Who’s there?
Orange
Orange who?
Orange you glad I didn’t say banana?
And he would say, “No mommy, a banana is yellow!”

A little while later we were riding in silence when Little Man told the following joke:

LM: Knock, knock
Us: Who’s there?
LM: Little Man
Us: Little Man who?
LM: No! I’m not an orange banana!

Yep, not quite there yet. More vacation installments coming....