"Teacups"

Olivia and I went back to Busch Gardens yesterday. Through many rides, she always wanted to come back to the "teacups"... (much to my stomach's dismay!)

Waiting patiently... I didn't know she could do that!

She finally got comfortable with the carousel, so I was able to get some pictures.

She liked to pet the horse, like it was Bella. She kept saying "nice horse"...

Relaxing

Yes, back to the teacups...

I let her play the duck game again...

this time she won the BIG duck...

It's as big as her!

On the Elephant Run

It was another awesome day.
As soon as we hit the interstate, her blinks got bigger and bigger.

then... she was gone-out for the count until we pulled in the garage.

Fun day Sunday...

Sunday, we gave Olivia a doughnut for the first time. Daddy of course picked out the messiest ones-chocolate with rainbow sprinkles and a vanilla creme filled one! She ate some of the doughnut, but was more excited about the sprinkles. Maybe I just need to add sprinkles to her oatmeal...

Where is that sprinkle?!?!

Sunday evening we went to the park to introduce Olivia to a new little friend-Addison.
Since it was a "Music in the Park" Sunday, You'll see they both had a blast. Olivia kept us running the WHOLE time!

Let's give Busch Gardens another try...

I decided to brave Busch Gardens with Olivia, by myself yesterday. She could not have been any better! We spent 5 hours in the park before she started acting sleepy, so we got to do a ton of fun things...

Here we are trying to get a picture with Elmo, but she didn't want to get too close...

Grover was smart, he knew to keep his distance...

This was our first ride of the day! The flying machines in Italy...

I wasn't too sure about this one, but decided to give it a try... The teacups!
I chose one that wouldn't spin as much, but they were still pretty fast.
Luckily, she didn't mind them.

Here we are getting ready to ride the carousel. She kept screaming at the horses, trying to talk to them. She got on a pretty white one in the center while I held on to her, but unwilling to take a hand off her, I couldn't get a picture during her turn.

Here we are on a bridge in front of the Loch Ness Monster, Alpengeist and Griffon.

These pictures are from Land of the Dragons...

I think her favorite part of the day may have been playing here in the water.

"Mom, another picture?" I'm already getting that look from her...

Playing in the big tree house

Okay, I change my mind... I think her favorite part of the day was here in Germany's clock shop.
If you know Olivia, you know she LOVES clocks. With probably 200 coo-coo clocks in the room, she was in heaven!

Going into Ireland...
We stopped at Abbey Stone Theatre to watch a show, The Emerald Beat dancers
Olivia had a blast there too.

Stopping to see a Peregrine Falcon, the fastest animal in the world. It can fly at up to 250 mph.

Watching Elmo and Sesame Street's 4D movie. The glasses were way too big, so they were a bit of a struggle.

Opting to take off the glasses and eat her gummi treats

Posing for a last picture of the day with the pink duck she won in Italy.
You can tell, she was tired. We had an awesome day and can't wait to do it again very soon.

This is a video of her on our first ride...