Friends

Last week, other friends from LA - the Rinaldos - visited Aaron and Carly....and therefore us too. :) 

We took this opportunity to explore some new places in Greenville. Highlights from the week were:

The Children's Museum! 

We are only here a couple more weeks, but I bought an annual pass because we are only 5 minutes away and this place is amazing. There is a grocery store for kids, a huge but kid-friendly and safe climbing section, a race car section (Marlo is very much into race cars at the moment), a water play area, music room, space section, construction zone, putt putt course, and more. 

Side note:

I took Marlo and Indi to the museum this morning to get out of the house. Marlo played with the race cars for quite awhile, but then we explored the last two areas we hadn't been to before- water station and outside playground. Both proved to be very entertaining. Indi especially enjoyed the water station!

Greenville Zoo. 

This little zoo is still developing but was the perfect zoo for our kids. Exciting animals we saw were monkeys (very loud ones!), orangutans, giraffes, leopards, lions, flamingos, an alligator and turtle, and lots of snakes, frogs, and spiders. 

Falls Park on the Reedy / Downtown. 

Falls Park contains a portion of the beautiful, treelined trail (20 miles long) called the Swamp Rabbit Trail. A waterfall lies amidst modern buildings and flows into a river the follows a portion of the park. All of this lies right next to Greenville's recently developed downtown main street. We walked down this street passing restaurants, coffee, ice cream, boutiques and other little shops. 

A “wall waterfall” in downtown

Just thought this was funny and often true.. :)

Other fun highlights include:

*Golfing at McPherson Park. By golfing, I mean that we use a bat and golf ball.

*Swimming in Aaron and Carly's rec center pool (Marlo was excited to go swimming again)

*Over the course of the last couple weeks, Marlo has been treated to several special treats including a couple cookies, some ice cream, donuts, and "coffee" (aka hot chocolate) in his own little coffee cup. He's a big fan!

Successful selfies have become much harder..

*Indi turned 6 months old and promptly grew a tooth.