Best Summer Vacation, Week 2

On Monday we finished off the sand art project with two lovely flowers.
Like so:

Doesn't it look sweet?

Then we went to a park which we haven't visited in a while because it's a mile away from us (and not on the way to any of our regular places.)

There we had a grand old time running around over, under and through rainbows.

And blowing bubbles!

Actually, "blowing" isn't the correct term. This humongous wand swivels, creating lots of big bubbles.

And of course, the classic favorite park activity, splashing!

 When we were getting ready to leave, the boys asked me about the train. The D train is right by the park, and they were curious to see where it goes under the ground. We already had a fun adventure going to see the F train go under the ground (that's another post!) and now the boys were hungry for more. So we followed the tracks.
Eventually we did get to the right spot! We saw the tracks descend, and we got to the next train station. We went in to look around and to ask for a train map. The boys collect them. They love train maps to pieces. Literally. Which is why we need new ones every so often.
But more than discovering the train going underground, we found a whole train-fixing center.

You can't see it clearly, but really, it was cool. There were tracks upon tracks of broken trains cars and special repair trains. By then we had wandered pretty far away from home and it took us close to an hour to get back home. It was a HOT and tiring day, but the boys had a wonderful time.

In contrast, Tuesday was mild.

We played in  a local park, scooted on scooters, and FINALLY went to buy the night diapers I forgot about the previous Tuesday.

Wednesday was craft day at the library. The boys made button pins.

They made three deigns to fill it with, and they rotate them depending on the day and their moods. :) The picture at the foreground here is Earth.

Adel didn't make a craft, but she did go on a ride on the way home!

The girl LOVES rides.

Thursday was a super fun and exciting day at the library. They had a reptile program.

This man has pets. Not hamsters or fish. He has a python, anaconda, snapping turtle... lizards, frogs....

and...

...an alligator. Her name is Wally. :)

I have lots more photos of these wondrous creatures...
Like Bluey here.

But they will have to wait for another post!

Sunday:
Our Sunday's activity can be found in the two posts below!