On Friday, Eli and mom hit the road and headed to Marineland. It's not what mom remembered at all, but it has been a few years and changed ownership since then. Now Marineland is more research oriented. Eli enjoyed watching the dolphins swim from his under water viewing perch and very much enjoyed when one of the dolphins sprayed him with water. On the way home we found Bob's Bait and Tackle and picked up some worms for our garden. Eli also checked out the live shrimp and fiddler crabs.
On Saturday, we participated in the Riverkeeper/RAP river friendly yard tour. We biked around Riverside and Avondale and visited Victoria and Robert and Jake and Pam's yards, and then headed to Brooks, Jenny, Scotty and McRae's (aka Cha Cha's) to visit their chickens and rabbits. Eli even found an egg that was laid just for him!
On Sunday Eli found that the Easter Bunny had visited and hid eggs inside and out (and surprise, surprise, some actually had chocolate!). He really wanted to know how the Easter Bunny got inside without waking everyone up. We met Gayle and Harper later that morning at Ringhaver park for a walk in the woods and a picnic, then headed for Poppa and Nana's for more egg hunting fun.
On Monday Eli spent some quality time with Poppa and Nana so mom could focus on Odessa's front yard for a little while. Later that afternoon Eli and mom headed to Interlachen to visit Grandma and the dogs and enjoyed a game of indoor bowling. Buster was quite helpful in retrieving the bowling ball and only left a few bite marks. On the way home we hit up Charlie's Fishin Hole to get more worms for the garden and found an Eli sized paddle while we were there.
On Tuesday mom and Eli headed to the zoo with Adina and George. While we were there we met up with Dot and Lily and Sebastian's family (one of Eli's classmates) in the water park. Eli is enamored with Sebastian's mom Bettina. She's a doctor at Baptist. Try explaining what an OBGYN is to an over inquisitive 3 year old (why? why? why?).
On Wednesday, dad and Eli headed to Mandarin to spend some guy time with Poppa. He really loves it when the guys play trash man together!
On Thursday dad and Eli went to the library. Some of their finds were Bob the Builder and the Muppets Season 1 DVD's and books on vets and construction vehicles.
On Friday Eli and Poppa made soup. Eli was very particular about what was to be included in his soup, from the vegetables used to ensuring Poppa didn't use too much honey. Later that evening, we headed to Intuition for a slow food event. Eli was a little overwhelmed... there were a ton of people! But he enjoyed snacking on hors d'oeuvres from a few participating restaurants and even enjoyed escargot (minus the shell) on a cracker. He's pretty excited to tell people about eating it to see their reaction.
Eli went to yoga with mom on Saturday for the first time to participate in a kid's yoga workshop with Victoria at Ananda Kula. He was a little scared at first, but will hopefully be up for it again next weekend!
And the big finale was an Alvin Brown for Mayor rally at Memorial Park. The event was May One Day One and was organized, in part, by Wayne Wood. Here's a picture of Eli and Jimmy at the rally taken by Bill Yates:
