Spring Break Road Trip {Stop #3}

Tuesday morning we left Cincinnati and headed south to Tennessee.

The boys love going to Tennessee to visit my family.  As soon as we unloaded the car, the boys were outside shooting hoops.

 

Leyton was busy chasing the cats and somehow found the popsicles.

It was my mom's birthday so on our way to Tennessee we stopped and got a cake to celebrate.  A few boys were excited to celebrate with her and one little one would not stop blowing out the candles!

Early the next morning, we visited the new Bass Pro Pyramid.

This place was crazy!  They had fish, alligators and a stuffed bear...oh my.

The boys were all in outdoor heaven.  They shot toy guns, which were a huge hit.

As we were leaving downtown, we showed the boys a few of Memphis' famous sights...

When we decided to go to Tennessee, I looked for activities for us to do and found something for everyone at Shelby Farms.  I made reservations for Rylan and I to take a horse trail ride.  Rylan is obsessed with animals and loves horses.  I knew he would love this adventure.  As the horses were getting saddled up, Rylan and I got fitted with our helmets.

 

I snuck this picture as we were riding...shh, don't tell.  Just look at Rylan, he looks like a pro.

After our trail ride we met the boys at the park.  This park was so much fun.  Lots of climbing and fun slides.

For Holden and Kevin's adventure, I arranged a reservation for them to "Go Ape".

This was amazing, they climbed and zip lined their way through Shelby Farm.  The entire obstacle coarse took 3 hours to complete but Holden and Kevin had the best time.

The younger boys and I watched them for a little while and we really loved watching them zip line across the lake.  Their expressions were the best!

Back at Grandaddy's the boys played basketball and enjoyed the Tennessee weather!  As you can imagine, leaving is always hard but our Spring Break Road Trip had to come to an end.

Back to reality, and back to the cold....oh Wisconsin!

Spring Break Road Trip {Stop #2}

Our next stop on the Spring Break Road Trip was to our old stomping ground, Cincinnati, Ohio.   Originally the plan was to stay downtown for the night and see some friends the next day but on our drive, I get a text from my friend saying that they all had the flu.  And Holden's other friend that we were planning on seeing on Monday had the flu as well, we were two for two.  YIKES!  We decided to stay clear but went ahead with our plans to stay the night and visit some of our favorite places.  Since we were staying downtown we decide to try Lachey's Bar for dinner.  The owners are Drew and Nick Lachey.  If you remember when we lived in Cincinnati, Drew and his family would frequent our neighborhood pool.  The restaurant was within walking distance from the hotel and the kids thought it was cool that they remember the owner.

I have to say I was impressed!  The food was great!  The kids all ate their meals and I had a fantastic kale salad.  If we still lived here, we would visit again before a Reds or Bengals game for sure.

Monday morning, we headed to the Museum Center.  I have to say, I really miss living in Cincinnati. The museums for the kids are just fantastic!  We spent the day exploring the Children's Museum, The History Museum and Natural History Museum.  Here is a little glimpse of our day....

 

Holden and Kevin went to an IMAX movie on National Parks while I took the little boys back to the Children's Museum for lots of building and playing.  After watching the IMAX movie, Holden and Kevin are now planning our family trip out west.

Once we finished visiting all the exhibits, we drove by our old house before dinner at a new shopping center that opened near our old house.  Sigh.  After dinner, we walked to Greaters Ice Cream.  Really, how could we visit Cincinnati and not indulge at Greaters.

 

It was a fun day even though we did not get to see our friends...next time hopefully.  Early Tuesday morning, we were headed out to our next stop on our Spring Break Road Trip.....