Apenheul

Mason didn't have school on Friday, so we made a trip to Apenheul. It is basically a zoo that only has monkeys, about 1 hour from Amsterdam. There are locations within the park where the monkeys roam free, and may walk right beside you. Mason was not sure how close he wanted to get.
Look at this sweet baby gorilla. He was the cutest little thing.

But, his mama's claws look like she could take his head off. Good thing you can tell she loves him.

There were tons of babies there. I love how the mama looks like she is thinking, "Hurry up and finish, kid, I don't have all day."

I loved this guy...

Fighting siblings...

Some kind of evil looking monkey...

Barcelona

We had a wonderful time on our trip to Barcelona. We spent a lot of time on the beach, drinking sangrias, eating tapas (found out Mason likes calamari, which we never would have guessed), and sight-seeing.

The first few days we spent on the beach, which was my favorite part of the trip :)
We then hit the city to check out the history. We saw the amazing Park Guell, built by Antoni Gaudi (who pretty much built the entire city of Barcelona).


We made a side trip to Tarragona to see the ancient Roman ruins. We saw the Amphitheater, which was built around the 1st or 2nd century, and we saw the Roman forum.
Our last day we spent checking out the biggest aquarium in Europe. Mason loved it here. He especially loved all the stingrays.
To view all of our Spain pictures, click here.

Spain

Mmmmmmm... sangria...

Letter of the Week

They started their Letter of the Week at school. Mason is really loving school so far. He was supposed to bring in something that starts with the letter "S" this week. He wanted to bring a skeleton. We convinced him that Superman would be a better option.