Mini-vacation Day 3

Today, we went to the Big Backyard at the Memphis Botanical Gardens.  Daddy took the day off so he could go with us.  It is so pretty at the Botanical gardens, and I have been wanting to take Amelia to the big backyard for a while now.  

 

A little family portrait in front of the fountain.

The first stop you come to is candyland themed.  It was so cute, and had this rope you could swing on.  Amelia and I passed up on it, but my niece, nephew and sister had a lot of fun swinging on it.

This is the rock wall.  Madison was very good at climbing it!

Cute chair, I wish we would have gotten all the cousins sitting in it.

The large cocoon swing. 

They then had a lot of playhouses along the trail for exploring.  They each had a different theme.

Everyone loved the music area.  We played and danced with all the instruments.

Daddy helped Amelia walk across the wood planks.

This was the large tree house.  There was a twisted slide, but I was too nervous about Amelia going down it by herself.  We walked back the way we came.

This was a large dog house.  There was a large dog sculpture in front of it, and Amelia was in aww.

We then walked to the Japanese garden to feed the fish.  I love this picture of Drew and Amelia.

This was at the Japanese pond, we were watching the swan.  Amelia wanted to joint the swan.

We couldn't have asked for better weather.  It was overcast, we had a few sprinkles, but for July, the temp was only in the 70's.  It was perfect. 

We left the gardens and then headed to a local favorite for lunch, Hueys.  It was so yummy.  You would have thought we starve our child as fast as she ate her meal.  We then headed home for a nap and to jump in the pool.  We all went to the pool once Amelia got up from her nap.  The water was a little chilly, but we didn't mind.  Amelia loved playing with her cousins in the water, and jumping from the edge for daddy to catch her.  We then all went in, got cleaned up, ate dinner, and went to baskin robbins for an after dinner treat.  It was a really fun day!  Amelia was so spoiled.  It's going to be tough keeping up with all our adventures in Memphis!