Our 8th wedding anniversary falls on Thanksgiving this year so it was a double celebration. The usual routine is to go out for a nice evening out child-less but since it’s Thanksgiving we celebrated it as a family. So here’s the story; warning! as usual it may get very photo-intensive!

The day started off with this; a peacefully sleeping baby that didn’t want to get up even after a bath!

Aaawww! Being cute can sometimes have its virtues!

Morning Thanksgiving Feast at the Montessori; the girls warmed up playing in the classroom and at the playground

This is really Petra’s favorite; the slide and the other pastime is the swing

We later went to dinner having some Thanksgiving meal of our own version…Battered Onions w/ Jalapenos & Pickles

Plus Apricot Glazed Cornish Hen with green beans and stuffing and cranberry sauce…sorry forgot the pumpkin dessert which is really pretty but all ate up

Then the girls had a ball at the amusement park

And of course the train ride; no kid would miss that one

The train ride actually leads up to a shark voyage; first the girls went through an underwater aquarium filled with sharks from all over the world and this sighting!

Yes, that is of course the train; Nadya couldn’t miss the picture- it actually goes choo-choo!

Nadya, daddy and the big ole owl

And a closeup of the owl and its trainer