Lucas learns to like sliding and gets a black eye

          We decided to get out of the house this weekend. We settled on going to Downtown Disney (even though we missed meeting up with friends there the day before). After walking all around, eating chocolate, looking at legos, dinosaurs,and fish, we decided to take the boat to the Riverside at Port Orleans Hotel (we had been there walking around another weekend before which is how we found out about it). We figured Lucas would like his first boat trip. Well by the time Dave convinced me it was a good idea, I mean who would pass up a free boat ride, it was around 4:30. Lucas normally has his second nap by this time. He was fine untill we got on the boat. After about 5 mins and not understanding why he couldn't get down and crawl around he was fussy. We played pass the kid, look at that, tickled him, everything we could think of to at least keep him from crying. I was afraid he was going to lean too far over the railing and fall in. I pictured him going overboard and me frantically jumping in after him because if he did fall in, it would be the end for him. Good that did not happen, but we decided to get off at the first stop at Port Orleans.
           We figured it was best to walk around a little bit before trying to get back on a boat to go home. So we walked around, watched people go down the alligator slide, went to the bathroom, colored in the lobby, ate a mickey mouse ice cream bar (Lucas' first ice cream on a stick), and found a playground on our way back to the boat. This was a little playground with one structure that had a big slide, 2 little ones, a place to climb up and a curly fireman pole. Lucas normally doesn't like slides, but we figured why not try again because you never know. Well this time he decided that he liked it. Daddy  helped him down holding him the first few times. Then he would go down with Daddy's hand behind him. Then he went down with Daddy right next to him. Well on that time down he went a bit crooked and bumped his head on the side of the slide. It didn't look bad, but the silent scream, and immediate red bump told me otherwise. We got him to shake it off a bit and then made him continue to slide a few times, twice with mommy and once with help so he wouldn't be afraid of slides. He went along with it, but wasn't too happy about it. So we got him a apple juice and headed to the boat. He loved the apple juice because he normally drinks mots for tots which is half strength.We also tried to get him to put it on his eye to help the red bump, which didn't happen.
         He did better on boat ride back, I'm sure partly because he was tired, partly because of the boys about his age behind us to look at. We were talking about how it would be a black eye tomorrow and the lady behind us said "wait until you have to go in for stitches." Oh boy, lets hope not, but I'm sure it will happen. Then we loaded up and went home. After a nap in the car we got home, ate dinner, and got into the bath. It was then we could see his lovely black eye starting to form. Ahh yes, Lucas' first black eye. It didn't look too bad this morning, which is good. I don't want people to think I beat my kid.