Leu Gardens

While we were in Orlando this weekend visiting Jill and Ethan we took a trip to Leu Gardens. It was a beautiful place with tons of paths, bridges, hills, gigantic trees, and gorgeous plants. At this lookout over a massive lake Kaiden was in search of the resident American alligator. He was no where to be found but we did find a couple other friends that wanted to visit!



This big guy was in the middle of one of the paths(Jill almost stepped right on him!).
But luckily Kaiden was brave and rescued him from being smooshed by any others. Kaiden was fascinated by this HUGE seed pod. It came from a sausage tree. Tons of these were hanging like fruit from this massive tree. Kaiden insisted we take this big one home and plant it in our hard to have our own sausage tree. He carried it for quite a while until he became too hot, tire, hungry, and cranky to move it any further. Then I took over looking like a crazy person carrying a large sausage throughout the gardens.

Even though it was terribly hot we still had a fun little adventure. Exploring, finding treasures, and animal friends. What more could we ask for?