Car Show

Last Friday night we went to the Classic Car show in Downers Grove. The night's theme was Emergency Vehicles. Gavin got to sit in a police car and a police motorcycle.

There were tractors there as well...

Grandpa Cermak, Clare, Fran, and Maverick met us at the train station.

The police SUV:

A VIPER!!!! Gavin was SO excited!

And a cool motorcycle.

Gavin and I spent a day last week trying to fit in a bunch of activities before he goes back to school on 8/24.

We started out at Cosley Zoo in the morning:

This Norwegian Fjord Horse is always hanging out by the fence, waiting for kids to pet him:

Later we went to Morton Arboretum. Gavin climbed on everything and waded in the tadpoles pond and the secret stream that's farther back in the Adventure Woods. 

Dinos and Dragons at the Zoo

This summer, Brookfield Zoo has an exhibit called Dinos and Dragons. Gavin and I went there today and it was very cool! (And he wasn't scared like he was in 2009 when they had a dinosaur exhibit. Can't blame him - those figures are very realistic!)

This knight was all Legos:

So was this dragon:

He felt like posing and "thinking" by the T-Rex: