Playing at the Gardens

Tonight we went to the Gardens as a family after dinner. There are two gardens: one for children and one that is 55 acres of different varieties of flowers and landscaping (I will post some of Michael's pictures of the scenery later). In the Children's Garden is a large Noah's Ark sculpture made of brass that is also a fountain. The animals shoot water randomly and it provides a place for the children to play just after entering the Children's Garden.



You can tell from this picture that we went late in the day. Benjamin is trying to warm up and is sleepy at the same time. He is laying at the edge of the wading pool around the ark on the warm cement.

Here Benjamin is ferociously splashing through the wading pool. He also had to run off to the water spickets that were shooting out of the sidewalk, and then back to the wading pool.

We hadn't planned on Bekah getting wet, that is why she isn't in her swimsuit. But, when she saw the water and brother splashing she couldn't get in the water fast enough. She loves her baths and our swimming pool, and can splash just as much as her brother. Oh, the water in the corner of this picture is from a llama 'spitting at us.'

As you can see, Bekah is a really good splasher and just walking in the water wasn't good enough. She had to get soaking wet and feel the total effect of the wading pool surrounding her. I forgot to post a picture of her the first time the llama spit at her after she sat down. She looks very concerned, but after the initial shock she just giggled every time water spouted out of the ark near where she was at. It was a good thing we had an extra set of clothes for Benjamin because Bekah ended up borrowing them.

This picture is in the large gardens. They have lots of hills throughout the garden and on this hill I am trying to teach Benjamin how to roll down the hill. The incline was so good that I had a hard time stopping myself once I started rolling and that made Benjamin laugh. He understood the idea, but couldn't quite control his body to roll straight down the hill. His rolling was more across the top of the hill. So after a few tries we got up and chased each other up and down the hill while Dad took pictures of the vegetation.