Not What We Expected But Fun Nonetheless

All morning we were talking to Jackson about going to ride in the boat and on the train. He was beyond excited! We put him down for early nap so we could get him up by 3 o'clock to head downtown and get to the park before everything closed. We had the Jeep all packed and headed off "on" time. All was going well until the temperature in the Jeep started rising and we started to smell something burning. We pulled off the highway to check things out. Once we opened up the hood we saw smoke and I proceeded to call AAA for a tow back home. Jackson only cried for about 1 minute and then spent the rest of the time talking about the broken Jeep:) We spent the next 45 minutes at this gas station waiting for the tow truck. In the meantime, Brian called his dad and came to the conclusion it was probably just something to do with the AC and it would be safe to drive the Jeep if we kept the AC off. So, we cancelled the AAA tow and quickly got back in to the Jeep. With windows all the way down, 100 degree heat we drove and hoped we would make it to the park before they closed the pedal boat rides. We hit every red light and when we did finally park the back window was stuck and wouldn't go up! We laughed as we locked the doors and headed into the park.

Thankfully the pedal boats were still open! Jackson was our captain!It felt great to be on the lake and feel the cool mist of the fountain on our sweaty skin:)
Jackson was beyond himself the whole time. He loved trying to catch all the ducks.
It was so relaxing just pedaling around and the sky looked beautiful! After our 30 minute trip all around the lake we headed back in to ride Thomas (aka the train).
Jackson got a special treat while we were waiting for the train. We were so proud of how well he behaved through everything on the way to the park.
He is ALWAYS excited to see a train and it never gets old seeing the joy in his eyes!

As we were board the train we started hearing thunder and lightening. Now, we were hoping we would make it around the track before it started pouring.

After the train ride we took Jackson over to the water fountains and let him go WILD!

He was not shy at all and loved running through the big fountains.

Quick pic with mom:)

We watched the ducks for awhile and wished we would have brought some bread to fed them. I guess we will do that next time!

I think he had a pretty good time:)

All three of us after a wonderful day together!

I think we were all pretty exhausted by the time we made it back to the car. (Sidenote: Brian did get the window up before we left the park. HA!) Jackson just chilled the whole way home.

Since it was around 7 by time we made it back home we swung through Sonic to pick up dinner. I told him to say cheese for this picture. Well he did, he just didn't take his eyes off Cars:)

The Jeep is now in the shop awaiting a diagnosis. Yeah, the afternoon may not have gone as we planned but we made the most of it and ended up really enjoying ourselves!