flowers and a swim

We had lots of weekend adventures . . . including a visit to an aquatic garden full of lotus flowers in bloom!

Abigail does love to smell flowers. She was busy sniffing away.

Our Abigail enforced early morning wake-up paid off again, getting us to the gardens around 7:30am - a perfect time to enjoy a beautiful, warm-but-not-hot, and not too crowded visit . . . complete with froggies and fishies and bees! What do bees say? "Bzzzzzzzz"

Lotsa flowers.

Wait - is that a really big lotus flower, or is that Abigail???? Little did we know when we dressed A that morning that she would be so well coordinated with her surroundings. Some of the photographers who were using their giant cameras and lenses to take pretty pics of the flowers also snapped some photos of our little Abigail-flower.

When it was time to leave Abigail blew kisses to the flowers.

And on our way to the car, we discovered this cool visitor's center - with velcro animals like ducks and butterflies and frogs to stick to the wall mural! Abigail decided she would be happy to hang out here for a while, especially with such a nice lily pad table and stools to sit on.

But there were more adventures in store! We went swimming!

We went to wish David and Ingrid and family a bon voyage on their move to China, and were lucky to get to go for a swim in their pool. It took Abigail an hour or so to decide that the pool was worth exploring, but once she warmed up to it, she loved it!

She was very splashy.

She looked pretty cute in her new swimsuit from Dee Dee and Pop Pop (thank you!) . . . and hopefully it will get some more use soon...!