May Long Weekend

We spent the May long weekend at my brother and sister-in laws house in Ottawa. The weather was fantastic with the temperature reaching mid 30's, we spent most of our time outdoors. We just love spending time with our niece but don't get to very often because they live a little too far away for a weekend visit, so we try and save a long weekend during the year just to hang out with her (and Derek and Kaila too of course) :)

By the time we arrived at their place friday (the traffic was terrible on the way to Ottawa with construction) we settled in, ordered dinner and headed across the street to a park. The boys had fun and kept Uncle Derek running, playing basketball and having fun on the play structures. The following photos are from Saturday evening, we had such fun at the park friday evening we did a repeat the following day.

Noah and his cousin Lexi. Sweet little girl followed Noah all over during their weekend together. She was trying to do everything they were doing.

My little monkey

Noah wanted to walk this like a balance beam. The poor  kid was so nervous he would fall even though the drop wasn't that far. Mommy stayed close by to give him a hand when needed.

Daddy thinking he is still young

The boys loved playing with Uncle Derek

Grandma helping Owen on the "zip line" 

Playing basketball, I'm not sure why Owen is kicking the ball :)

Noah's poor knees! He fell going out the door as we were leaving to go to Derek & Kaila's  and scraped his knees. Then he must've fallen at least three more times over the weekend re-skinning them.  He was banned from wearing his crocs anymore that weekend, I think they are a tiny bit too big for him.

We took a quick walk for ice cream. Mmmmm ice cream in the park - Yummy!

I was impressed that Saturday morning we were all up and ready to go by 10am. We decided to take the kids to Parc Omega and it was soooooo much fun! We waited quite a while in line but the wait was well worth it. We had a quick picnic lunch then we were off to drive through the park. The animals come right up to your car and you can purchase carrots to feed the deer, and pellets to feed the fish. 

There are a few spots in the park that you can get out of your vehicle and feed the animals. 

Noah feeding the deer. He was a bit timid at first but loved it by the end. 

Owen was like an old pro. He wasn't nervous at all.

Grandma watching the boys feed the fish.

Mommy and Grayson

It looks like this black bear is headed right to our car! there was a fence there thank goodness :)

The deer were so big! they'd stick their head right in the car for a carrot and the boys  thought it was hilarious when one of them slobbered on daddy! sooo gross! 

love this photo! Noah was freaked out by the deer being so close.  Afterwards we listened to the park radio and they said to leave the window mostly closed so the animals wouldn't stick their heads right in - oops.

I think Derek was bothered by the closeness of the animals too :)

Our attempt at getting a photo of Grandma with all of her Grandchildren.

We had such a great weekend and look forward to doing it again soon!