I know your kids cry too so stop staring at me! NOW! PLEASE! IT IS NOT HELPING!

When you have a toddler you know they are emotional and crying is as natural to them as breathing. They have very real feelings and no way to express them. When you have two, well it is a given that someone will usually be upset, maybe not at the same time but someone is not going to like something and the way they tell you is crying. So, I don't like crying either, I want my child to be happy too, I want to have a nice outing with clean quiet children. But, I am blessed with HEALTHY ACTIVE twin toddler boys and that does not seem like a menu option right now, but neither is locking ourselves away until they are over this stage like 20 years from now!

Today we trucked into the city via the train. This is about 1hr+ of stroller time, walking to the station, waiting for the train, riding the 19 minute trip, getting to "lifts" you get the idea. By the time we reached our destination, the Aquarium. CM had enough of riding...I WALK I WALK I WALK I WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! EVERYONE in line gasps, stares, and acts like I just took his diaper off and let him poo in queue. So, I felt self conscious, I know nothing will help, but I felt like I have to look like I was trying. The line (queue) was long I let him out of the stroller and he ran away to the water BAD. Back to the stroller, near hyper ventilation, more gasps and stares and we calmly exited the line to the aquarium. I am sure all of the looky-loos missed us terribly! 

So, here's the deal...I know all of your polite clean 7 year olds were once 2 and I know they cried so please be a dear, pick your jaw off the floor and mind your own bidness. Your staring at me will not make my child stop, it just makes his Mommy more tense, which makes baby more tense which makes more crying!

So, after excusing ourselves from the Aquarium queue we went to the no queue, quieter Wildlife World, and everyone was happy! WE strolled around and looked at all kinds of native scaries, many of which seem to live at the Funky Cold Medina with us (see post for Cat A Roo). A few highlights and funnies of the WW were: 1. A long ramp hallway where they were playing scary sounds and I had the boys "off leash" (out of the BOB) and they froze and would not go up the ramp and I could not get around the stroller to move them and we jammed up traffic for miles, or kilometers depends on your view, they finally made it up the ramp escorted by another family behind us. Another happened during this pic, CH pointed to the roos tail and said "pee pee," I hope he is not disappointed later in life if he does not grow into similar proportions! Another funny thing is there are 3 wombats you can sit on and the boys fought over the same one and then one boy moved and they fought over that one too! Wombat pic attached. A beautiful but tragic highlight was a baby Joey(is that redundant?yes!) that was so cute, it lived with the keepers in a faux pouch b/c Mum rejected it.

Later we made it back to the Aquarium and I have to say it was not worth any of the above mentioned excitement!