McQuality Moments: Sesame Place!!!

Friday after work we loaded up the car and drove 7.5 hours to Sesame Place, a Sesame Street amusement park just outside of Philadelphia. On Saturday morning, we got up and went to the park early to eat breakfast with Elmo & Friends (Elmo, Big Bird, Bert, Ernie, Abby, & Zoe). Landon loves everything Sesame Street but didn't want to get very close to the characters in person. He loved to wave to them from a safe distance and would even give them all a high-five. After breakfast, the park was open and it was a beautiful sunny day. Sesame Place is probably 65% water park 45% theme park so all the water rides were closed. But that was fine because there was tons to do still. For Halloween the theme was "The Count's Halloween Spook-tacular", so there was a lot of Count themed things. We went in The Counts Un-Haunted Castle, saw 2 shows starring Count and his friends with lots of Landon's favorite songs, and even got to meet Count! Landon loved riding all the rides and we even got to sit on the steps of Sesame Street. We saw 3 shows (the 2 with Count and Elmo's World Live). The shows were really good and we sat in the front row for 2 of them. Landon loved the parade they had in the afternoon. At first he was a little nervous with all the characters coming down the street, but by the end he was dancing and having a really good time. After the park closed we drove to our hotel in downtown Philadelphia and got a cheesesteak from Geno's, and went to swim at the hotel. Since it was a Sesame themed weekend, Landon wore his Sesame swim trunks. Everything he wore all weekend long was Sesame Street (shirts, diapers, swim trunks, and pj's)! Sunday morning before leaving, we walked over to take a tour of Independence Hall, where the Declaration and Constitution were signed, and see the Liberty Bell. It was now time to pack up the car but before heading home we stopped to see Kelsey's cousin Ross and his girlfriend Janelle and at an outlet mall. Landon was so exhausted that he fell asleep in the car around 5 and slept until 7 Monday morning. We had such a fun weekend, we can't wait to go back when it's warmer so we can ride all the water rides!

Reading Sesame Street books in the car