Niagara Falls

Dustin had another business trip. This time he was in Rochester, NY. We decided that I would fly up with the girls at the end of the week and we would make it into a little vacation. 

I headed to the airport with the girls on Thursday and met Dustin in NY. This was the first time the girls had both flown together and they were great on the flight.  Getting into the airport with 2 carseats, the stroller, and our bag and carry-on was the hardest part of the entire trip.

As soon as Dustin was finished on Friday we made the 1.5 hour drive to Niagara Falls. We walked around the American side for a bit.

The girls spotted a gray squirrel! In our part of the country squirrels are brown.

On the American side we could get pretty close to the falls.

 Olivia checking it out

 

Grace had fun trying to catch the falling leaves. She really got to see how leaves change colors and fall off of the tree in the fall.

 

Then we found the bridge and walked to Canada.

 

Our first stop once in Canada was the Hershey store. I think this was Grace's favorite store ever! 

 They picked out some candy as a souvenir.

 

From Canada you could see the entire waterfall! It was really pretty and I think it was probably a great time to be there because we got to see the fall colors as well.

After we saw everything we wanted to see it was time to hit the road.

Dallas

Earlier this week we took a little trip to Dallas. Dustin had a hiring convention to attend and we went along for fun!

We got to play in the pool.

 

 The water was COLD! We didn't get in but Grace had fun splashing. She said there were too many bugs and leaves to swim.

We went to Pump It Up which is a place with lots of BIG bounce houses. I haven't seen any this big before.

Doesn't Grace look so little at the top of this BIG slide?

This was one of her favorites.

This is the same one. There was a slide at the end that she loved!

We got to go to Build-A-Bear. I have been wanting to take Grace since she was a year old.

And we went to Going Bonkers. It had a HUGE playground.

We started off in the toddler area which was for kids 3 and under. Olivia got to enjoy playing too!

Then we followed Grace around the big kid area. I could barely keep up with her!

 

There were a few rides too. She liked this spinning tea cup.

 

And she reminded me of her Uncle Billy on the bucking buffalo!

And both girls got to ride on the race cars!

 

And that is not all we did! We went to the Children's Aquarium. It was the perfect size for Grace.

She learned about some sea creatures.

We saw some sharks.

 And stingrays...

Grace got to pet the stingrays.

And she even got to feed them!!

Then we looked at all the other fish and other creatures that live in water.

 

This alligator was one of her favorites.

 

And she got to see what an octopus feels like.

 

We had such a good time on our trip! There is so much fun stuff in Dallas :)