The Avial household had a fun weekend.
Friday was spent courting the gorillas in the Rainforest café. After months of planning, should we go – shouldn’t we, what will we eat? Will the vegetarian food there be vegetarian enough so on and so forth, we finally decided to brave the make-believe gorillas, crocs, snakes and parrots there. To say that we were not at all disappointed will be an understatement. The kids had a ball and we were very relaxed since the place is very kid friendly. Parents and kids were trotting all around and looking at the different animals, no one was getting offended. The girl who waited on us was also very jovial and friendly and made our first experience(yes, quite sad that way) in Rainforest café an awesome experience. The food we had was also very good. I had Jambalaya for the first time(H has tried this before) and I liked it a lot.
Saturday, we went to the Six flags safari and again Narad were thrilled to see the animals walking so close to the car. We got to say hi to a cousin of the Deer, an Ostrich and a giraffe. The rhino decided to snub us and the peacocks were too busy preening to care about us. The tigers, lions and the bears did say hello but from afar! The elephants were too hot and were cooling off, putting mud on each other. Na was very thrilled looking at the various animals and trying to identify in which movie(cartoon) she has seen them. We saw some Llamas and she correctly identified them as the animal in the book “The emperor’s new groove”. The whole safari experience lasted for about 4 hours and we were home by around 7:00 in the night. Caught up on an old telugu movie with an awesome pizza for company 🙂
Today we stayed put at home, relaxed and caught up with all our chores. All in all, a very fun weekend, wouldn’t mind if this happened every week!
So, how was your weekend?
Tata!
Naradtales 
Pooh! said,
August 2, 2010 at 3:23 am
I am so glad you had a great weekend. Mine was’nt too bad either. It involved a great combo – friends and food! cannot go bad right? happy week ahead
Shankari said,
August 2, 2010 at 3:27 am
Thanks Pooh! Am glad too 🙂 As a family, after a very long time we all had a blast and it felt wonderful and rejuvenating!
Swaram said,
August 2, 2010 at 5:47 am
My weekend ws all about shopping and cleaning this time with lotz of festivals cmg up 🙂
Will the vegetarian food there be vegetarian enough – LOL 😛 Thatz so much like us 😛 😛
What a lovely weekend that ws! Glad u all hd fun 🙂
Which telugu movie 😉
Shankari said,
August 2, 2010 at 11:45 am
Yep, next weekend is when I am planning to clean for the festivals. We wonder about the food even in the veggie restuarants, after a cockroach episode in the local Udipi! We caught up on a really old movie called “Kalisundam Ra”. Lots of melodrama, loads of sentiment but overall a timepass movie. Na loved it for the songs and costumes in the songs 🙂
Shruti said,
August 2, 2010 at 8:10 am
wow! that sounds so fab!!!! 🙂
nice to see you all relaxed n happy .
Shankari said,
August 2, 2010 at 11:46 am
Very relaxed Shruti. After a very long time, it was just the four of us. Sometimes we just need these kind of outings alva?
artnavy said,
August 2, 2010 at 9:09 am
we had pizza too minus the jungle safari- ours was more like a human one!! LOL.
sounds like fun .
Shankari said,
August 2, 2010 at 11:47 am
LOL on the human safari! I guess with the kids monkeying around, everyday is a safari ride(fun and otherwise) for us moms! Our Pizza night is almost a weekly affair. I love pizza and howmuch ever I try to steer away from it, once a week, I HAVE to have it!
Saritha said,
August 2, 2010 at 5:16 pm
That’s sound wonderful holiday.Kids love to see animals that too quite close to them.
This weekend was fine but had to do little more work as maid thought of forcing me to work more on weekends as i lazy around on the other week days.
Shankari said,
August 3, 2010 at 1:42 am
Narad definitely had lot of fun both at the restuarant and the safari! LOL at the maid troubles 🙂
Varada said,
August 5, 2010 at 6:35 am
What a lovely weekend… Glad ya all had a gala time 🙂
Which was this place and how did you get the bookings done?
Do share,
~Varada
Shankari said,
August 5, 2010 at 10:31 am
Varada – no reservations required. The rainforest cafe, we just walked in on Friday. Though it was very busy, we got a table immediately. Safari also no reservation required. 20$ for anyone above 2 years is the charge. Safari was the 6 flags safari in New jersey and the rainforest cafe was in the Menlo park mall in Menlo Park, NJ.
Sands said,
August 5, 2010 at 10:32 pm
We planned & shopped till we dropped for the little one’s b’day party and were exhausted at the end of the day 🙂
Shankari said,
August 6, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Sounds like so much fun, the shopping that is 🙂
VV said,
September 21, 2010 at 6:42 pm
Hey
We also went to Safari recently- last weekend ie 18th..the boys went to the safari and the girls did shopping as in me mostly… my daughter could care less…. I indulged in a coach bag at the premium outlet mall! I fgured I couldnt miss the shopping but Safari I could miss 🙂
Shankari said,
September 21, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Endha safari? Shd see the coach bag 🙂
VV said,
September 27, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Six flags one. – are there any other safari rides in NJ? Yes next time you visit will show you the bag. After indulging on the bag now i dont want to depriciate it in my train rides!! …maybe for special occassions- which not sure happen that much and even if they do i just lug the good ole diaper bag every where!!!
Shankari said,
October 1, 2010 at 7:32 am
Okay, not sure if there are any other in NJ. My manni gifts me very very good handbags and all of them are gathering dust. I hope one day I get the oppurtunity to use them, untill then diaper bag zindabad!