You can't make this stuff up...

I was going to interrupt the Florida posts to post about this weekend's Dr Seuss Celebrations but alas... Jonah woke up at 5am... so no time download pictures and write said blog post...

So here's another quick post about another day in Florida that was too cold to go outside?!?!?

By this time in our Florida week, we had moved out of the condo into the hotel, rented a car, Vera was diagnosed with sever ear infection and on steroids and an antibiotic and Guess what!  Nana and Pop came down with colds and coughs too?!?!  So I took Jonah and Vera to another indoor play space this time in Boca...

We actually had a great morning!

We tried to go to the Boca mall first but it didn't open until 11am so we went out for breakfast to a bagel play and then ended up at the play space. Boca Play Station and Cafe (I think I have to check...)

It was very clean and we were the first there at 9:30am.  They had trains, slides, computers, dressup, and indoor bounce house, riding toys, and wait for it.... a little stage!  Jonah & Vera were super psyched to get up and dance!  Seriously it was totally awesome... so awesome that some Boca mom comes over to me and asks me if me kids have an "agent?"  Excuse me?!?!  She said she knew a good agent and that I should sign them up because they are gorgeous and have star appeal?  Clearly, things in Boca are different then in Washington DC?!?!?!

Anywho... we had fun and visited Nana and Pop the rest of the day...

Happy Monday Everyone!

this is the little stage

 

Not Such a Sunshine State of Mind...

We arrived in Florida mostly unscathed... although Jonah and I were fighting off snotty yucky colds...

But it was freakin' COLD!!! and did I mention RAINING?!?!?!

My first thought was - did I pack that kaleidoscope???

I did. 

And apparently, Pop has one of his own... we started making plans (we couldn't just hang out in the house for days on end - it is a one bedroom condo for goodness sakes...).

First Adventure: Pop said to go to the mall...

Nana, Jonah, Vera and I journeyed to Coral Square Mall.  It seemed they had an indoor play area and we needed to get our "wiggles" out!

It was a very nice mall.  The play area was good enough.  I ended up making friends with another mom.  She was speaking Hebrew to her kids - her kids were the same age as Vera and Jonah.  We ended up talking and exchanging emails.  She emailed me a list of stuff to do with kids in the area that you could do inside in the cold and rain - how cool is that?  I love moms who are totally cool and help you out!  Thank you Israeli mom - we totally used your adventure list the whole week!

After the play area we walked around and found a TRAIN!!!!  This little itty bitty train.  We bought our tickets and hopped on.  All four of us in this little car that was totally enclosed (it was sort of suffocating...).  All aboard - we started off for the ride.  We went around the little track three times or so and then we were like... ummm... when does it end... Nana and I were a bit perplexed.  Then Jonah and Vera were getting weirded out... as in, "mom are we ever getting off this little train and out of this little enclosed space?!?!" (This is total foreshadowing by the way - to our adventure later in the week...) 

Seriously Jonah started screaming,"I want to get off!!!" and Vera started crying...  We had gone around the little track like 12 times?!?!  The two old ladies who ran the train were totally busy doing who knows what and because we were enclosed in the car and locked in - they couldn't hear us screaming to get out?!?!  Finally some passers by heard us and saw us motioning to get out and they stopped the train... They gave Jonah and Vera stickers as we exited - so the kids were relieved... although we may all suffer some minor trauma from the experience for years to come...

We played by the car strollers for a while.  We also played in the moving rides for a while but didn't actually make them move... we just played on them.  Finally it was time for snack - smoothies for the kids and ice cream for Nana!

All in all (notwithstanding the train ride from hell), it was a pretty fun rainy Florida day!

Everyone slept that night - we definitely got our wiggles out..,

Sidenote:  Vera has totally developed this weird attachment to strangers (think opposite of stranger danger)... at the plaspace she found a young woman (think someone who likes a nanny) and decied she was going to hold her hand and drag her all over the play things... for quite some time.  When it was time to leave she didn't want to let go of the lady's hand?!?!  Seriously Vera, get a grip - but not on some strange lady's hand... oiy... the fun just never sstops!

this is the crazy train rie from hell...

snack time!