However since Brent was the one to pick us up from the airport he met Lily first and I have to admit I think he fell in love with her. 
Later that morning when we woke up we wanted to run a quick errand but since we had no car Brent cautiously let us borrow his Buick. We were so excited. Especially Mike.....
He had this perma-grin the whole time we drove down the block.
And of course he wanted me to make sure I had tons of pictures of him next to this sweet ride.
And what was this important errand that Mike's dad let us use his car?
It was a donut run. But not any ordinary donut but the King of all donuts. Dunkin Donuts!!! I love these donuts even more than Crispy Cremes. They win by a long shot in our book. 
How can anyone resist there signature Dunkin Delight? We sure couldn't.
And neither could Lily. She just drove right into the apple and spice powdered donut. She even made the cutest animal eating noises. Sorry but I didn't record them.
After our donut run and the safe parking of Brent's car Mike, Lily and I sat and watched a movie until everyone came home. Here is Patty on the right with her 2 kids Nina with Lily and Neil. We were really excited to meet everyone. They made us fell right at home. Thanks :-)
So Mike, Lily, and me ordered some orginial New England Clam Chowder. It was so gooooodd!!! I can't even explain how it tasted. Just know you should be jealous. Then for our meal we ordered lobster. Mike never had lobster before so I had to take a picture of his first bite of it. 
Here he is with his mouth full of lobster. You can tell he enjoyed it.
Then even though we were stuff we had to order dessert. This was on the menu and it looked/sounded delicious. It's a lemon sorbet inside a chilled lemon topped with whip cream. It may not sound fancy but it tasted so good. Thanks Brent that was by far the best seafood dinner I have ever had.After we ate we all went on a joy ride to downtown Hartford. Patty is so informed on the history of Hartford. She was our own personal tour guide. It was a lot of fun. But we headed home early since tomorrow we had some big plans.
Lily was pretty excited until we had to tell her babies can't gamble. She only cried for a few minutes though. While we waited for our next flight to our final destination we decided to explore the airport instead of take a nap like Mike wanted to do.
We first went to a pretzel place called Aunt Annie's and they had yummy pretzels of all kinds. Some in hot dogs which is what Mike got. I got a classic sugar and spice one. They were delicious.
So Mike and I got a small assorted box of 12 bites that we picked (the cheesecake was our favorite) and a chocolate lollipop. It was so good....drool!!!!
So after our exploring we still had to wait for a little bit longer so we played around taking some random pictures as usual.
Here is Mike and Lily under the Rolex clock. Mike would love to own a Rolex watch one day but for now this is as close as he will get to it. 
We decorated it with yellow, brown, red and orange balloons. Mike put up the yellow and brown party paper all over our living room and dining area. (That's the colors of Indiana Jones) But Mason walked right past all our hard work and went for his gifts.
He torn thru them so fast....I didn't have time to take that many pictures.
But he was so excited when he opened his gifts. We got him the rest of the Indiana Jones movies he was missing, a Indiana Jones hat, an Indiana Jones toy cloth whip that plays the theme music, some snakes(Indy hates snakes!) and the Indiana Jones action figure that has whipping sounds. He was so happy. He kept saying thank you to Mike and I and then asked if we'd call him Indiana Jones the rest of the day. So we did. 
We were going to go outside but it was too cold so we just moved the couch and played inside. Mason, Hailey, and Eric each got 3 hits per turn to try to bust it open. After each kids had 2 tries then it was Mom's turn and on my 3rd hit I busted it open and all the candy and toys fell out. It was on the floor, under the couch, in the couch cushions, by the window. Everyone was grabbing handfuls of candy. I mean everyone-my 53 year old dad, Mike, Eric's mom, me and all the kids. 
But then is was time for Indiana Jones to have his cake. We all sang to him. When it was the part to enter his name everyone said Mason. But Mike said Indiana Jones and Mason loved that! He was so happy.
I'm not sure what he wished for cuz he won't tell us but it doesn't matter... anyways he cut his own cake into pieces that no one could finish. 
Lily loved her huge piece of chocolate cake and spoonful of fudge vanilla ice cream.
Here's Hailey and Mike watching Temple of Doom. Or should I say here they are mesmerized to the movie.
So as we waited for our order to come we played around taking random pictures. 
But then came our ice cream and we all chowed down. This is Angie's ''Black and Tan Sundae. ''It even sounds fancy.
Mike's Mickey Small strawberry sundae. Looks good huh?
Hailey got pretty hard core. She had the paper napkin bib on her and she ditched her spoon and just dove in. She wasn't playing around.
We each got this on our left backside shoulder. It says Soul Mate in Chinese.
Then after our painful ink session Mike treated me to a wonderful snack. A candy bar. He sure knows me. Then he went to work. He was 5 1/2 hours late. He sure loves me!!! 
Here's Mike and Lily in front of the monkey cages. The kids were so excited they ran around like a bunch of wild animals. I think the monkeys were more tame than Mason and Hailey were.
We were only at the zoo for about 20 minutes before everyone started saying "I'm hungry" so we sat at the peacock pavilion (which didn't have any peacocks) and ate lunch. Pb&J's, chips, juice, and baby food. Sound delicious right? We even had enough food to give the birds some Cool Ranch Doritos crumps. 
After lunch we continued our journey. Angie's favorite animal is the....take a guess....penguin. Did you know that penguins mate for life..they only have one partner their entire life. It's kinda romantic. Mike took the fun fact and brought us penguin jewelry from the gift shop. I got a ring and he got a necklace. So you can say we're penguins for life :-)
Lily didn't really care for the zebras as you can see. Then we let each of the kids pick a place on the zoo map they wanted to go. Mason picked the reptile building. Did you know snakes poop? We were looking in the tank of some snake and it started to relieve itself. The snake showed us his long one piece poop and earlier a giraffe pooped in pebbles in front of us also. We took pictures but we'll spare you the details. ha ha
When Hailey picked she lead us to the new zoo carousel. She was so excited!!! 
Mason ran to get on this lion. He was afraid someone else was going to grab it like dad. But dad got the lady bug seat. I won't post it out of respect of my husband.
But each of us took a picture trying to look like this gorilla and out of all of us Mike of course won!! Can you tell which one is my husband? 
We learned her favorite animal was the elephant. We kinda figured it since she hits her animal book when the elephant page come up. So we naturally got her an elephant and a pink shirt. But see the look she is giving. I (mom) moved the elephant from her face to snap this photo and she gave me her stinkface. Mike and I have talked about her "Stink Face" and no one quite understood how this sweet beautiful little girl could give a look that it would be labeled Stink face. So now here's the proof.
And this picture is especially for Angela. When we left our fun filled day we got stuck behind this car at the stop light and we couldn't help but laugh and think of you. The license plate says "MWAHAHA". C'mon now...this was the cherry on our sundae.