Thai Pavilion

The Thai Pavilion was a part of the Botanical Gardens, and it was incredibly gorgeous!

Claire can walk up and down steps super-well now! I don't feel like I need to hover 2 inches behind her on unfamiliar steps anymore!

Claire got a kick out of the Elephant that was in the Thai area.

This looks like it would be so much wade through! The stones would feel great!

Proof I was with!

There is real gold-leaf on the building. It seems like they should have it fenced off or at least roped off.

Claire was tired from running around!

Ahh yes...here she is spinning around with the pumpkin!

This is the ceiling in the Thai building:

And a profile shot:

Outdoors at Olbrich Gardens

The previous post all the pictures were inside. We had a nice day to walk around outside, very sunny!

There were a lot of water features in addition to the trees and flowers!

Claire enjoyed running ahead. They say that your child can REALLY run when he/she can outrun you. Yes, Claire can run. Fast. This was a pretty good place for her to run! No cars!

Here she is sitting to look at these bushes that have been sculpted into bears sitting at a picnic table. She loved them!

Olbrich Botanical Gardens

Claire LOVED these fish!
She wanted to sit and watch them!

I told you Claire carried that pumpkin around all day!

Claire's first time throwing money into water:

Walking with cousin Kami

Check out their website for even awesomer photos: http://www.olbrich.org/

Botanical Gardens

Here we are at the gardens, which are a part of the Indy Zoo. Check out their site: http://www.indyzoo.com/content.aspx?cid=281

We got to feed a giraffe a chunk of sweet potato for only $1! What a good deal!

We're going to the Zoo, Zoo, Zoo!

On Tuesday, Claire, Anja, and I headed to the Indy Zoo with our neighbor Jessie and 2 of her girls. We had a good time. We got an early start and made it in for the 10:30 dolphin show. If you go, don't expect too much from the dolphin show. It's all of 15 minutes, so don't be late, either. Here is a little video to tide you over until I get around to posting more stuff. I am about 2 weeks behind on laundry. I am always behind on laundry. Seriously. Ugh. Oh, so here is a video that is actually from the Botanical Gardens, which is connected to the Indy Zoo in White River State Park, which we did later in the day, as you can tell since all the girlies are sleeping. Claire wanted to ride with Amelia all day, so Sophia rode in Claire's stroller. It worked out quite well; check it out:



It was supposed to rain...a 60% chance...so man, did we luck out!