Phipps Conservatory

A couple of Fridays ago, we got together with our friends Angie, Jesse & Jaime to meet at Phipps Conservatory.  We had great fun wandering through the different rooms (the theme was different countries), and then having lunch there afterwards, although we waited entirely too long with the tired and hungry children for the ordered lunch to arrive, and I'm pretty sure everyone around us was happy when we finally packed up and left ...

I managed to go with a camera that had (a) almost no room on the memory card and (b) an almost empty battery.  Whoops.  The good news is that I therefore don't have 2 bazillion photos to look at to write this post.  The bad news is that some of them were taken with my phone...

This photo was taken before we were even inside the Phipps.  We figured we may not get another chance to take a photo of all four kids in the same spot!

Of course we did immediately get another opportunity.  That was it for the day though.

Playing store with the supercool fake food (not really pictured) and the shopping lists for various meals (our girls were a bit young for that) was one of the highlights for them.  Vivian often asks to go back to "the place with the flowers and the store"

India

Jesse, Jaime & Angie

Jesse & Vivian

Vivian, Annelee & I.  Can you tell that we liked the Dutch windmill and flowers?  Annelee was in no mood for photos that day. 

China

England