Sesame Place

What a place..this was a really intense weekend of coordination, color, characters, crying and more..Sesame place is not for just anyone and I didn't know what to expect with a six week old baby in tow! You've really got to put on your happy pants and smile because it's packed with people and the sounds of Elmo are blasting throughout the day. The scenery is very colorful and around every corner there's something to see or do, so I put away all my reservations (..well, most of them anyway) and tried to embrace the world of make believe for forty-eight hours.

We arrived on Saturday morning around 11:30 and after waiting to park and a few trips back to the car to get things we forgot we made it into the park. The lines were a bit long but we had our tickets already so we skipped over to the security and got our bags searched ( yeah!..), you aren't allowed to bring in food and drinks so we just stashed our food in the stroller! 

As we walked down Sesame street, we noticed lines controlled by young girls in yellow shirts who take their job of policing the characters very seriously, it was rather funny how in the world of Sesame the kids are in control.

Anyway, on one side of the street was Ernie and Bert while across the street was  guy named Murray. At that moment, I realized why parents do this for their kids and knew it was worth it to make this trip happen. The look on Arie's little face was priceless!

Once we were done with Murray we went to to find some rides. They really liked the Counts Castle which was a large pool with slides and water falls all over it and dropped an enormous bucket of water on the crown every few minutes. 

The rambling river ride was also pretty popular for both kids and adults..it was worth the wait because you could stay for a while and enjoy the water while floating along. 

Most of the day Evalie slept in her bassinet or in the Bjorn, she did open her eyes once or twice but  could tell she was enjoying the breezes; she would make humming sounds every time there was a breeze. I carried her around a lot but we did switch off on the second day so I got to go on some rides as well. She was actually quite easy to deal with, we had a cabana on the first day so I had a private. cool space to go and feed/change her each time I needed to but even when we didn't on day two, somehow I was able to manage to find places to discretely handle all that. 

Next up the Sesame Street parade! At about 2:30 we noticed people crowding along the street and realized it was tie for the big parade..this happens twice a day but the second one is at close and I wasn't sure we'd make it to 8:30pm so we rushed over to get a spot to watch the parade. Although we didn't have the prime spots, Arielle go a good view of everything and really enjoyed all the music and dancing. good times..

It's really funny how kids think the characters know them and so they scream and yell and wave excitedly until they get their attention and get them to wave back..its really great. All the characters came out on floats and danced, waved, some even got off to play with the kids and hug them, it was like a scene from the Michael Jackson concerts in the 80's..people fainting and crying..pure pandemonium..I say!

Evalie awake at the parade..

Slimey's Shoots..

Evalie finally woke up

Meeting Elmo

Telly..

Bert's Bouncy Bed..