Sesame Place

Isabelle slept the majority of the way to Sesame Place but kept waking up to make sure that we weren't there yet. At one point she woke up and I could see the Sesame Place water tower off of the side of the highway. When I pointed it out to her she yelled, "Daddy, just drive through those trees. Get off the road!"... LOL She has never been more excited. As we pulled into the park the gleam in her eye got a little brighter and she wanted to see and do everything. As we were walking to the gates we came upon the hand prints of the Sesame Street characters in concrete. We had Isabelle compare her hands to Elmo. While waiting in line someone actually had the nerve to complain about how hot it was, a whopping 85 degrees with no humidity. I wanted to tell that guys to get a grip and come visit Texas, but a saved my comment for myself. The weather was absolutely perfect!

The first thing we did was go jump on Ernie's bed, it was very similar to a bounce house but in the shape of a huge mattress. Following that we headed over to meet Elmo and get pictures taken with him. Isabelle refers to him as the Elmo that does not talk =) $20 later we had an official picture of Elmo and Isabelle, the park is nice enough to let you take your own pictures with the characters so you don't have to buy theirs. One of the coolest things was getting to sit in on Elmo's World! We saw Mr. Noodles, Dorothy the fish, played on Elmo's piano, took pictures with his easel, and checked out the whole set. (Not the real set, but a very good replica) Sesame Place had an awesome water park but Iz did not like it very much. She is not big into getting splashed and seems to be developing a fear of the water. We have her scheduled for swim classes when we get back and she is in for a rude awakening. She did enjoy playing at Sand Castle Park with her "friends", the girl makes friends wherever we go.

Her favorite ride of the day was the teapots, and they had a really neat cargo net maze that Dave and Iz climbed through. We were able to meet Bert, Ernie, Zoe, Abby Caddaby, and Elmo throughout the day. We went in Mr. Hoopers Emporium and bought Isabelle a Big Bird. We went pretend shopping in the Emporium on Sesame Street where Isabelle rang me up for $60,000 in fruits and vegetables?? I had to put most of it back because I didn't bring that kind of money. We saw Oscars trash can, Big Bird's mail box, and took a picture on the steps of Sesame Street.

Toward the end of the day the park does a parade with all of the characters. The clouds started to look really dark and it looked like it was going to rain. We started to get really nervous that they were going to cancel the parade, and we really wanted to see it. With the threat of the rain they started the parade right on time but hustled through in record time. Instead of the normal 20-25 minute parade they were done in 7 minutes =) As soon as it stopped raining we ran as fast as we could, and got in the car right before the skies opened up.

We had a WONDERFUL time at Sesame Place! Hopefully Isabelle will have some memories of it as she grows older.

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