Familly time

Hello again,

This Sunday we saw the sun peaking. Its been really grey and raining a ton every single day so I knew we should take this chance to go out.

We decided to go to a museum because on sunday mornings in Portugal some museums are free.
Mari seems to like art pieces a lot, we have a big paiting on the staircase and every time we are taking her to bed she holds her hands up wanting to touch it. I figured it wouldn't hurt to go to a museum.
Seeing as there are usually art instalations at modern art ones I picked the most notorious modern art museum in our city, Serralves. There was an exhibit from Ccildo Meireles which consisted mainly of large scale instalations and some were interactive as usual.

Mari fell in love with the "egg" installation. We took her shoes off and let her stay there and she was clearly feeling the egs with her feet and smiling like mad. She did not want to leave!

After leaving she felt a bit cranky (probably wanted to stay there) so I let her walk for a bit. I thought it would be for a bit but she was having so much fun walking while holding my hand that we ended up visiting that entire floor like that. It was fun.

We got tired a while after and left without seeing everything, the purpose of visiting was making Mari happy and estimulating her senses so our work was done anyway. We decided to go to the cafeteria to have a cup of coffee. Mari drank a whole glass of water.

We then visited the book store but Mari is so into books she started crying when we took the books she was picking up from her hands and we left a bit embarassed haha the life of a parent.

We then went to take a stroll in the gardens. They are huge and so pretty!

The reason why i like them so is that you can find any sort of environment, modern things, old trees, designed fountains, very crude ponds with ducks... everything. We spent some time there playing since mari loves water and taking photos.

We wanted to have lunch somewhere nice but when we arrived to the place we were going to try out they told us they did not have baby chairs and obviously we left. It's a very recent place so its a bit of a shock to hear that they do not have baby chairs... we just went for the obvious safest option: a nearby shopping mall.
Mari ate a MacDonald's bowl of soup and we both had asian noodles,at a Wok to walk franchise store. My husband likes eating there, and I told him to just grab me something while i fed her.

They also had a small park for kids to play in and we took Mari there for the first time. She really liked the horsie. I want to get her one now!

We did some grocery shopping next and went home.
My brother stopped by at night and we were not very hungry but i was obcessing over cake so my husband went to get some chocolate muffins to surprise and make me happy (<3) so we ust drank tea, had some toasts and muffins instead of a normal dinner.

That was basically the nice part of my weekend, on saturday i just took care of my daughter while my husband worked.

Hope you liked hearing about my weekend.
Jo