Sunday, January 31, 2010

Dumplings & the Aquarium

After spending one too many weekends at home with no plans, we decided that we would get out to do something new this weekend. Since its still a little cold (and rainy) here, we thought we would go for a nice brunch and then visit the Urban Planning Museum. Well, plans are great to have but we learned once again that when you have a baby around, plans don't really mean anything.

It took longer than usual for Ang to go down for her morning nap which meant she slept later than we expected. By the time she woke up we were starving and decided that we would go somewhere close for lunch - we chose dumplings at Din Tai Fung - a very popular chain in China. Ang has gotten very good at going out for lunch and will usually sit in her high chair and eat her food or nibble on food from our plates. Not today. She wanted nothing to do with the high chair and had no interest in sitting still at lunch. We figured this meant that she wasn't up for a trek on the subway to Puxi and decided to instead check out the Aquarium which is only a ten minute walk from our house instead of the Urban Planning Museum.

We spent about an hour wandering around the aquarium, looking at all the fish. It was pretty impressive and much nicer than I had anticipated. We ended up purchasing annual passes and look forward to returning someday when Ang is a little happier.


Mommy trying to point out the big shark, Ang doesn't look so impressed


Ang checking out the fish!

Loving the giant walkway under water

Maybe next time we will get to see the penguins eat!

All bundled up and ready to go home with a new friend (stuffed seal)

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Well, I now know one thing we're doing when we get out there this summer.

We have a year membership at the New England Aquarium, so we'll hook up Angela next time she's in Boston.