Visit to the aviation museum

I had been meaning to bring the boys to the aviation museum for a while now. Their great grandfather (GG moustache) was a tail-gunner in a bomber during WWII and subsequently worked at the aviation museum until his retirement. We finally went yesterday and they loved it. We spend about 2 and a half hours looking at everything....some things 4 and 5 times! There is still a display in the museum featuring a photo of him and his colleagues recoving a plane from the bottom of a lake in Kapuskasing. The plane they recovered is also still on display. The boys had a lot of fun. Felix really liked seeing a photo of GG moustache and seeing where he sat in the bomber.

The first picture is the boys posing infront of the tail gunner position of a Lancaster bomber (where GG moustache sat as Felix kept saying). The second photo is Hugo preparing for flight!

Hugo and Giraffes

Hugo first encountered giraffes at Kalahari Resort in Sandusky Ohio on July 9th 2009....a very memorable day for him. We were staying at the resort and decided to take the boys to the little zoo that they have. We purchased a pail of carrots and proceeded to look around. Hugo was very into things and wanted to touch and feed everything. We then walked up a small caged-in wooden bridge to an caged-in observation platform to feed the giraffes. They had 2 giraffes there and while his older brother Felix hid behind us Hugo pulled and strained against my arms to get as close as he could to the giraffes. He proceeded to fearlessly feed and pet them as they brought their giant heads up against the fence. He was so excited.

This past weekend we took the boys to the Granby Zoo and headed over to the giraffe exhibit waiting to see Hugo's reaction. They were in the process of feeding them and the largest giraffe was very close. Hugo was looking all around but hadn't noticed the giraffe as we approached. Upon seeing the giraffe he went stiff as a board and starting frantically pointing and grunting at the giraffe. It was really funny. I think he was disappointed that we couldn't feed this one.

We then proceeded to the gift shop where they had all sorts of stuffed giraffes. Every time he saw one he grabbed it and gave it a big hug. We picked out a really nice soft one that he seemed to like and brought it home.

Before leaving the zoo we had to go see Hugo's giraffes one last time. They were pretty far away this time but he got all excited none the less and waved goodbye to them before leaving.

So now I have to figure out how we're going to get him to see the giraffes on a regular basis. A pretty mean feat when you live in Canada!

Jeff