Around Town in Atlanta

The Atlanta Historical Society was hosting a Jim Henson exhibit while we were visiting so we took Ethan to check it out. They were playing episodes of The Muppet Show in the theater so I guess that was kind of Ethan's first movie. I could have sat in there all day but he's a little too young so we moved on to the exhibit. I wasn't allowed to take pictures in there but they had Kermit and Ernie and Bert to name a few (and Ethan's favorite!) muppets. It was a really cool exhibit with scripts and sketches and clips playing.

At the end they had an activity room for the kids. Ethan got to create his own muppet with AB.



He was very serious for most of the time we were there.



AB bought him an Elmo in the gift shop and he would not put it down! Here he is trying to color a picture for GS but having trouble with Elmo in his hand. It's quite a quandary.



They had puppets for the kids to play with and Ethan picked Ernie out of all of them. He and Beth put on a little show for us.





Then Ernie was giving out kisses.



Upstairs from the Jim Henson exhibit was the Atlanta Olympic Games exhibit which was really cool. They had the medals and batons and torches and all sorts of other Olympic trinkets and facts. Ethan and Beth got to race a little around the track.





On Sunday we took Ethan to the Atlanta Aquarium which is the worlds largest. It was pretty darn impressive with lots of things to see. This is "Deepo". The owner of Home Depot pretty much built the place from what we heard so this is their answer to Nemo. Ethan couldn't tell the difference which is probably the whole point.



The moving walkway takes you right through the ginormous tank (Hmmm, I've never had to spell that before! It's one of my favorite words these days.)





I don't know the official word for this amazing room but it was incredible to get to view the tank from here.



I think that's a whale shark. It was the biggest in the tank.











These little boys were so well behaved! They waited patiently for Ethan to have his turn looking into the tank and then moved in as soon as he moved out.



Here is Suzanne's picture from the other side...



There was a slide that looked like a whale for the kids to go down and Ethan was very interested. I thought for sure that once he saw how dark it was in the tunnel he would back down but he loved it! I'm not sure if Steve loved it but we were all cracking up.



The last thing we did while we were there was go to a 3D movie in the 4D theater (they sprinkle water on you and blow real bubbles during key scene's for the 4D experience). We all got glasses including Ethan and while they were too big and I had to hold them on, they worked for him! It was funny to watch him reach out at things that appeared to swim out from the screen. It was an animated movie and he was really into it until they ran into the shark. He climbed right off my lap and onto Steve's! I guess he figured that if he really gets into trouble with a shark that Daddy's his better bet.

On Monday we boarded a plane back to Boston. Ethan was up until almost 10 Sunday night and we woke him up at 6:30 to head to the airport so he wasn't in the greatest of moods. Which is what made it so great when he fell fast asleep during take off! He slept throught he entire flight and only woke up when we got to the gate. We were very happy parents.

Thank you so much to all of our family for making our Christmas so special! We love you all and Ethan is a lucky, lucky little man to have you.