Free Loaders!!!

We were always planning on going away for Wifey's birthday but with certain decisions that have been made recently it looked like it wasn't going to happen. As her birthday came around an opening came up for us to travel as complete and absolute free loaders!!! Ganma had a conference she was attending, all expense paid to Columbus and Ganpa was supposed to go but ended up having to work!! Enter an entire free loading family!!

Ready... one.. two... three... CHEESE!! : )

(Come on would you pass this opportunity up??)

So we were off once again!! Happy and grateful to be doing so!!

While Ganma was at the conference were made plans to explore Columbus

and this is what we did:

First, we were off to see a famous boat!

The Santa Maria

(A replica of course!)

Columbus' boat in Columbus!!

A close up of what G is doing in the above picture:

"RRRR, Matey!!!"

This is his pirate face because he thought this was a pirate ship!!

On the Santa Maria

The look out pole!

The Captain's quarters!

With Captain G peeking out!

More of the Santa Maria

Veteran's Memorial across the river with a STORM coming!

We had perfect timing throughout most of our day. We parked at a meter with minutes still left and put what coins we could find in the meter and hoped it would last! Then we walked into buy tickets for a tour and they were just starting one! While on the tour we decided we needed to leave a little early so we wouldn't get wet walking back to the car! As we shut the doors to the car that was parked at a meter with only 4 min. left it started to rain!! Perfect timing!!

But then it was raining what do we do now.....???

We went to the COSI!

Mouse G

Mouse C

This is in a "rocket ship!"

Trying to drive a Rover on the Moon!

This was all in the Outer Space part of the COSI!

Next was the Ocean part

Where G played with water!

And watched a submarine driving around.

"Up here Supmarine!"

So cute!

He is sitting in a little bubble window watching other kids drive the submarine around!

We stopped by almost all of the exhibits at COSI and then we found:

An area for toddlers and BABIES!!!

Who IS that???

They also had a water area for BABIES!!

Baby C loved it!!

He is sitting in a chair that is a part of the table!!!

We want one of these for our house!!!

THE COSI IS HUGE! We didn't even got to do all the stuff they had to offer!!

Soon after this Ganma called and was done with her conference so we headed back to the hotel to go swimming!!! Ganma has the pictures of swimming on her camera!! We are still waiting on the pictures of the Conference Center out in Utah and our pictures of swimming! So we'll update when we get those!! Oh and a HUGE thank you for Ganma for letting us tag along with you!!! We really hope you enjoyed your time even with us tagging along!! WE LOVE YOU!!