Sculpture Garden Reopening

Last Saturday was the grand reopening of the sculpture garden. We've been to the garden before, but they recently added several new sculptures and totally redid the landscaping. The reopening was supposed to be the week before, but they had to push it back a week because we had a lot of rain last month.
The grand opening was a big event with tons of fun activities for the kids, community sponsor booths, and the Walker Art Museum across the street was free too.

The famous spoon and cherry statue.

 One of the sponsors of the event was Blue Bunny, so they handed out free ice cream cones to everyone! The kids loved it. I don't think Dorian has ever had so much ice cream before. When he got to the bottom half of his cone, he was done and handed it to me. It was just too much.

You can't tell, but Isaac is standing next to the Blue Rooster with the kids in the stroller, and Joslyn is wearing a blue rooster mask that they were handing out. And Dorian is passed out because it was way past his nap time. 

At the Walker Art Museum they had a cool color by number art project that everyone could work on. The markers were huge, and Joslyn just thought that it was so fun!

Dorian tried it out too, but he kept grabbing the tip of the marker and got the ink all over his hands.

We got to go out onto the roof of the museum and it was a lot of fun. They had giant bean bags for sitting in, and the view of the Sculpture Garden was awesome! While walking down the steps, Dorian tripped, and hit his head. Now he has a big bruise there, so he didn't have quite as much fun on the roof as Joslyn did.

It was a lot of fun going to the reopening.

Also, a few weeks ago, they started doing construction on the parking lot right outside our apartment. They tore up all the asphalt and the sidewalks. They estimate that it will take 6-8 weeks to finish it. The sidewalks that they tore out went right up to the front of our building, so we have to use the back door every time we leave. They're also replacing windows in the building next to ours, so we have construction on all sides right now.

This is the excavator just pulling up squares of the sidewalk like it's nothing! 

The one good thing about having all the construction is having all the trucks around. Dorian loves to watch the trucks. He makes sure to point at every single one when we walk by, and he wants to know the different names. I've had to look up some of them, because I really had no idea what they were!

Dorian watching the trucks.