Aquarium Trip

we had the craziest day on saturday.

baptism, aquarium, waratahs game.

and it didn't all quite go as it was meant to.

i envisioned this perfect day of waking up, having breakfast as a family, packing snacks for the city trip, going to the baptism, leaving straight to the city after, walking around the aquarium nice and slowly with the boys loving all the exhibitions, having ice-cream, having a little play around darling harbour, having dinner before heading to the warpath's game with plenty of time to spare so we didn't have to rush, watching the game and then coming home to a nice clean house,

after all i had been planning zayden's birthday adventure for months and i couldn't wait for it.
(this year i am steering away from toys for gifts and trying to do experiences)

the ONLY thing that went to plan in all that was having ice-cream.

and it all started from the moment we woke up.

chaos swept through our household.

we were late to the baptism, without having a decent breakfast or any snacks being packed.

we had to come home from the baptism because i forgot the boys jerseys for the waratahs game.

drove to the city and got stuck in the most ridiculous traffic it took us 30 mins to get over the bridge.

whilst we were in this traffic i realised i left the tickets for the game at home.

the parking i thought was cheap on weekends wasn't, so we had to pay a ridiculous amount.

we got absolutely soaked walking to the aquarium because we forgot umbrellas.

we went through the aquarium in maybe 2 hours 

(and that was jevan and i trying to make it longer).

the boys only were interested in the penguin exhibition, sharks and sting rays.

the penguin exhibition was unreal.

penguins are now my new favourite animal because of it, 

they are hilarious animals !

they did love their ice-cream cones.

we rushed home to get the tickets and then fed the boys in the car on the way.

jevan and i were trying to find this street parking we had parked at last time

(because it was free.)

whilst doing this jevan went from a turning lane to a going straight lane 

and got flashed by a red light camera because the turning lane had gone red.

SO FRUSTRATING because we weren't even turning.

and then we still had to park in the paid parking area.

WOW.

this day was a day to remember.

and then zayden today had the hid to ask me when we were going back to the aquarium to see the penguins because it was so much fun,

when all the boy wanted to do while we were there was go on a ferry.

not all memories have to have a wonderful story.

because this is a day i will never forget.