Ethel M Chocolate, Cactus Tour, Town Square

Somehow I thought it would be nice enough to do some fun outside activities, like going to Ethel M, having the quick tour, walking through the cactus garden, then heading over to Town Square and play in the park. I was wrong, it was way too hot, even if we did start at 10:00 am in the morning. It was also very humid which is not really normal and made it almost unbearable. None of the children complained but do they ever? None of the moms complained either, however you could tell that we were all very hot and not happy to be outside sweating in places we didn't even know we had. We managed. The kids seemed to enjoy themselves, especially when we got to the park. As hot as it was they had an awesome time and all got wet (yay), even Summer, luckily she has come around to water features, it could be an age thing, or maybe a hot over 100 and humid thing.

Ethel M Chocolate - not as impressive as I thought. In fact by the time we arrived no one was working on anything so we walked through and just looked at a bunch of big machines. We all got a piece of chocolate near the end, and walked through the gift shop. The kids were looking at a large piece of chocolate shaped into a sculpture or something, I guess they were impressed, of course we made them stay there longer than they normally would so we could take pictures.


No doubt the cactus garden is pretty neat, but when it is so hot in humid, not so much. No one really wanted to look at anything except the path that led to the exit. We will have to go back just to check out the garden when it cools off, but until then, eh it was really hot. The kids didn't seem to mind, they kept running down the trails and stopping to sit at every bench we encountered.


Oh they did see a lizard and thought it was pretty neat I guess.


Next we headed over to Town Square, a huge shopping center with a pretty awesome kids park. The park has several large kid buildings to play in, a maze, slides, and a water feature. I think this was the best part, they all had a blast running around and just being a kid. We are going back as soon as it cools down a bit.



After we played for a while we went and had lunch at Whole Foods. By then it was nap time so we headed home and Summer happily crashed. It was a hot but very nice day.