Our trip to Yale

If Jackson was writing this post, he'd have titled it "my trip to the dinosaur museum!!!!" as that was the highlight for him. In fact he still talks about it weeks later.

We decided to take a day trip to New Haven, CT on a free Saturday we had at the end of July. It was a beautiful day and our first real CT day trip of the summer. It was less than an hour to New Haven which is on the southern part of CT, right on the coast. We wanted to see Yale and since Jackson has been super dinosaur boy lately we thought he'd have fun at the Yale Peabody Museum. While the museum is small and a bit dated, Jackson was in heaven! We were there for over 2 hours which is pretty long for our family and especially since it really wasn't too big. But he loved going through the rooms again and again and especially loved the kids discovery room (with live snakes, frogs and bugs) and the dinosaur fossils, obviously.

We were greeted by this large Triceratops and a roar from Jackson

He loved the mammal exhibits too, cheetahs are a favorite of his.

Nearly impossible for him to look at me in a picture since that involves looking away from the exhibits.

Brachiosaurus has a loooooong neck!

I love how he walked around with his hands in pockets or clasped behind his back.

Loved these colorful tree frogs

We always point out Florida, Connecticut, Arizona and Utah on globes and maps.

After the museum we grabbed some lunch from a cute little market and sat outside as Jackson played at their Foosball table.

There were a few other things we wanted to do in the city (go to Ikea being one of them) but Abbie taking a nap was more important at that point! So after lunch we did a driving tour around the city and Abbie fell asleep almost instantly. We drove all around Yale Campus and it was beautiful! 

All of my pictures are taken on my phone from a moving car, so hence the quality.

If you look closely you can see what building this is.

In case you didn't get that ;)

Once Abbie was sleeping soundly we stopped the car and let Tyler and Jackson run around by the ocean. While there are no actual beaches in town, there are fun harbors and piers Jackson got to enjoy.

#alwaysrunning

We drove home from there and could have called it a day but we decided to just make it ultra fun day for Jackson and let him go mini golfing too. Later that afternoon while Abbie took another little nap, I got to take Jackson on a little date. We hit up the Farmington Mini Golf Course and had a great time!

 

They have a cute ice cream parlor next door and so we topped it off with a special treat! It was a fun day and we love having great destinations so close to us here!