So last week my kid was on Spring Break. So a mom of one of her classmates and I decided to get together and take the kids somewhere fun (read: tiring) to break up all of the.... break. We debated places and landed on the
Cleveland Botanical Garden. Because of this:
Alice in Wonderland theme? Hedge maze? YES. Also there's the huge and wonderful Hershey Children’s Garden which was perfect considering it was still too cold for a full day of outdoor activities. But we still wanted to get the kids out for a bit because there is nothing more fun (read: tiring) than OUTSIDE.
But enough with me blabbering. How about some pictures?
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| Umbrellas from the ceiling! |
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| 4 of the 5 kids. |
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| Hanging out at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. |
The Big Spring setup was ADORABLE. My friend kept saying she wanted to live there. The kids basically loved all of it:
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| Playing with the costumes at the Toadstool Theater. |
Especially exploring the indoor hedge maze:
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| My kids are running around in there somewhere. I am too pregnant to chase them anymore. |
They also had this really cool decorate your own boat thing. The kids were totally into it:
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| It took a water feature to get all 5 of them to stand still long enough for a picture. |
But then the Dude noticed that there were goldfish in the river for the boats. And started saying CATCH! FISH! CATCH! So we redirected their attention and headed outside. Something tells me the Botanical Garden would frown on a toddler bare handing fish out of their display Bear Grylls style.
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| Little boys in plaid. SO STINKING CUTE. |
We had the outdoor Hershey's Children's Garden to ourselves which was crazy fun:
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| All of the kids were in the house but only one would pose for a picture. |
Especially since the whole thing is decorated for Big Spring:
And since there are no leaves on the trees yet we could let the kids go exploring and still keep an eye on them:
Then everyone was getting cold and cranky so we headed in for a snack and some time in the Glass House:
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| BIRDIE! DUCK! QUACK! |
Overall we had a great time at Big Spring. The kids loved it.
I'd totally recommend it as a perfect Cleveland activity for this in-between time when it's getting warmer but not warm enough and everyone has spring fever:
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| Crazy kids need some spring. |
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| There's the picture we were trying to get. |
Disclosure: I received admission to Big Spring in exchange for writing about it. As always all opinions are my own. This time I can't claim all of the adorable children, though.
