Monday, April 23, 2012

A grand mini vacation!

A million pics to follow of our over night mini vacation to Grand Bear! We had a BLAST! We basically had the whole place to ourselves! Note to anyone thinking of visiting - go on a Sunday night! The kids went down the water slides hundreds of times! Adam and I went down the large slides too! This trip was different than a year and a half ago in that the kids were much harder to contain and Emmersyn in particular has a niche for going where she's not to - like the hot tub that's closed or almost face first dive into the lazy river to get to dad!

We also visited the Enchanted Forrest amusement park where the kids bounced and slid to their heart content on inflatables. We were mean parents and tortured them on the tilt-a-whirl where Wyatt almost tossed his cookies scared out of his mind and we laughed uncontrollably! Oh and then there was that tiger ride where the old man operator - drunk (I'm sure of it) - kept going for over 10 minutes - I almost clobbered him to stop and rescue my girl!

We then left for supper - stopped at Auggies pizza which was an awkward eat in experience - we felt like we were in someone's kitchen at their house - a family member at a table on his laptop, another in a chair watching a lil tv, kids running all around with their moms hollering at them! It ended up a good experience they were friendly with delicious food - however most likely it'll be take out next time ;)

Oh what else - story time in the lodge, mini golf (Wyatt got 2 hole in ones!!!) lots of desserts, and a quick (quicker than hoped for due to Emmersyns 'broken legs' and Wyatt's whining for his turkey sandwich in the car) trip to Starved Rock!

On a bad note there is a lost report filed at the hotel for soft puppy ;(. We are hoping he turns up, he always has a way of finding his way back! I told Wyatt he wanted another day of vacation at the hotel - which by the way - Wyatt calls 'college' for unknown reasons, but he's adamant about it!

We took a country cruise home and went out for ice cream and house hunting!

Am I ever so happy I took a vacation day! Weekends like these make working hard worth it!

Ps sorry if your eyes are bleeding - memory making and storing in process! =)

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