Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Busch Gardens

We are fortunate to live 20 minutes from Busch Gardens Williamsburg.  I believe the Busch Gardens in Tampa is a zoo theme, but the one by us is Europe (or The Old Country).  Somehow this includes New France (Canada) which I have never understood, but that is besides the point!

Saturday was Pass Member Preview Day for 2012.  It's held the weekend before the park opens for the season.  The weather was nice and my mom drove up from Virginia Beach to go with us after Finn's nap.  It wasn't crowded at all which was nice since Finn is now a big boy and wants to walk rather than ride in the stroller.  He was so funny and would stop every now and then to dance to the music.  Most of the people who got stuck behind our slow moving group didn't seemed too bothered by it.

We spent most of our time in Sesame Place which is a Sesame Street themed area for little kids.  It's pretty new to the park and took the place of what used to be a petting zoo area.  Since we never went into here pre-baby, I had forgotten that there is a big "splash pad" area.  I do believe that getting to play in the water makes last Saturday the best day of Finn's life.  We didn't let him get too wet since we didn't bring a change of clothes, but he was absolutely enthralled.  He kept pointing to all the water spraying everywhere and he and my mom came very close to getting a huge bucket of water dumped on them!

Hopefully we'll be able to take advantage of living so close to make a few more BG trips before we move.  Waking up on a Saturday morning and being told by our parents that we were heading to the park for the day was always a big treat for my sister and me growing up and it's so much fun to watch Finn enjoy it as much as we did.
We didn't exactly wear the right clothing to play in here.

So much fun at Busch Gardens!

Who wouldn't want to play in there?

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