Mini-Vacation

This weekend we headed down to Tucson for a monster truck event and made it as much as a vacation as we could. We haven't been on a true vacation in a long while so we will take what we can get. We stayed over night and enjoyed the pool and even hit the Tucson Zoo. C'mon, would we not be the Rowe's if we didn't go to another zoo? Check another one off the list! We got down there and in true 21st century fashion the boys got comfy in the hotel...

Once I reminded them we could do that at home and we had fun to gettin' to we headed to food and then went to the Tournament of Destruction that was being held at the rodeo grounds. We got there pretty early and were the second ones in line. Jason and I don't think we've been second in line for anything in our lives, it was kind of cool (especially when you saw how crazy the line got later!). When we got in there we headed straight for the monster trucks. Avenger was there which was kind of Aiden's first big truck. Last April when we went out to Firebird he had met the driver there for the first time and had him sign his truck and shirt...this time we were able to have him sign his new paint job truck and the kids book he is featured in. We also saw Wrecking Crew, which was one of the first monster trucks he owned and then Nasty Boy, who he saw last year at Firebird as well. I think seeing the trucks up close and meeting the drivers is my favorite part...even I get excited! After the meet and greet we stayed for the show and saw racing, crushing, demolition derbies, and of course monster truck freestyle. It was a fun time.

Then today we woke up enjoyed the pool for a little while. It was actually not as hot as we thought so I was able to lay out in the sun for a bit, while the boys froze in the pool. Once the boys had enough, we headed for the zoo.

Time for the Zoo~ The baby elephant was my favorite!!

His mother's son.....

Is Tucson the ideal place for a vacation? Uh, no. However, it was nice to feel like we got away and did something different. We had lots of fun and Aiden did wonderful on the potty (no accidents!) and even started standing up to go pee. Such a big boy!