Our little Cincy Vacation

We wanted to do some little getaway for fall break but went back and forth as to what we would do. Our decision was made when we decided we wanted to get Lylah a play tent for Christmas. Do you know how expensive those things are??? I also looked at blogs and thought about trying to make one, but decided my sewing skills weren't up for it. I found a simple little tent on IKEA's website and so we decided to go to Cincinnati. We left early Thursday morning and went straight to IKEA for some shopping and lunch. After that we checked in our hotel and tried to get Lylah to take an afternoon nap....tried. She finally did fall to sleep for a while which was nice because we were really tired too. After our family nap time we went downtown to the river front (my favorite part of the trip). They have a beautiful river front with two incredible play grounds. They had lots of little areas to explore and fun slides. Lylah played for probably close to two hours and then we went and got some dinner to take back to the room. We did some swimming before trying to put Lylah down for bed.....again trying. Our lil' lady was not much into sleeping that day!! Needless to say we all slept in a bit on Friday morning. We got ready and headed to the zoo so we could get an early start. Thanks to Triple A we only had a small wrinkle in our plan when we locked our keys in the car... :) It was really fun watchin Lylah at the zoo. She would study the animal and then if she knew it's sign (monkey, penguin, elephant, giraffe, zebra, cat (for all cat like animals) she would start signing like crazy. If she didn't know it's sign she would just oooooooh and aaaaaah in amazement. In fact, since we've been home her animal books have become her all time favorites!! It really was a good zoo, but nothing we will probably do again just because we have two other zoos that are so much closer. We headed home in time for Lylah to get an afternoon nap (hypothetically since she really only slept for 30 min.). We stopped in Louisville for dinner and some more riverfront views and play time. Lylah even made some new friends!! All in all it was a nice time away for some family fun!!