The Free Zoo

Tonight for dinner we went out for Mexican food at my favorite (Las Palmas on Franklin Pike). It was super crowded but everything was really good, as usual. They sat us in the same seat where they always group together people with kiddos. It's kind of comical how much we notice that they always put us around other babies/toddlers. Lilli was great - waving and saying Hi to everyone and ate most of her quesadilla, rice and beans. She loooves Mexican food. They seated a family with two twin babies next to us, they were probably 5 or 6 months old, and they also had a toddler probably not too much older than Lilli. I can't imagine! Lilli was infatuated with one of the babies and kept trying to offer him quesadilla. And wouldn't you know the kids were well behaved until the second they got their food and then everyone was crying? I was pretty happy to not be them tonight, and not be outnumbered. Afterwards we went across the street (kind of) to Petsmart. Petsmart is awesome, it's like the free zoo. Lots of animals, no crowds, no sun/rain/wind. Lilli loves it.Her biggest draw is the birds. She loves birds and loves to watch them fly around. She'll blow them kisses, wave and just squeal when they fly around. She could watch them all day.
The mice were also pretty popular tonight too. They would run up to the glass so she really liked that.
She even loves just running around the aisles there, and it's usually not crowded so she can just roam. She likes looking at all the packaging because most of it has animals on it. And she loves looking at a lot of the dog/cat toys because they're all similar to stuff Pippin has.
I taught her how to spook the fish and make them swim off, and she just loved that.


Of course a big fit was thrown when we left, so we had to tell all the animals good-bye and head home. But visits to Petsmart are high on my list of things to do during this insanely hot summer!