Rainforest Cafe

Today we took Conor to lunch at the famous Rainforest Cafe. He had no idea what was in store! If you have never been, it is a rainforest themed restaurant and gift shop. The entire restaurant is designed to look at and feel like a rainforest, complete with elephants, toucans, gorillas, and of course rain.

Everything was going great. We arrived and immediately started pointing out all of the animals, trees, and flowers in the restaurant. There are was also huge fish tanks filled with gorgeous tropical fish...Conor was particularly fond of the fish. When our waiter approached he informed us that every 20 minutes there is a "thunderstorm" where the lights flicker on and off and all of the mechanical animals light up and squeel really loud (we were not aware of this "thunderstorm" feature when we planned this little outing). Shortly after we received our appetizer the "thunderstorm" began. Conor jumped and insisted on sitting next to me in the booth and leaned on me throughout the entire meal. He didn't even want to eat his lunch; there was just too much going on and he did not want to miss a thing. A nice man came by and made him a balloon animal which brought a huge smile to his face :) It is an incredibly stimulating environment for a child, Warren and I even had fun.

All in all it was a great experience for Conor. He left knowing the word fish very well and he was extremely excited about his blue balloon dog. The lunch left all of us totally exhausted...Conor was out cold on the drive home. He is so gosh darn cute!