Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Stay-cation

Normally Wade and I love to travel, even if it's just a short weekend road trip. So when the kids had a few days off of school for Fall Break we had planned a little get-away to Hot Springs, AR.

We were out of town the weekend before. The day we returned Wade turned around and left for Denver. He got back late Wednesday night and we were supposed to leave Thursday morning after a few doctor appointments. We decided that morning to forgo the trip and have a "stay-cation" right here in T-town. I'm so glad we did, we really had a great time.

We saw a couple of movies: ''Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs'' AND ''Where the Wild Things Are". J.P's first movies...he did so good, what a champ!

We had donuts 3 mornings in a row...checking out some new places we've never been.

We set up the tent in the living room and we played lots of games (Brooke killed everyone at Bingo).


We played Memory in the dark (lights off) but the kids had their spelunking headlamps on.
Here's a pic with the flash on...don't let the flash fool you...it was as dark as the top picture the whole time. The kids thought this was THE coolest.
We had some really fun dinners...one night we just had popcorn and cake, another we went to Shogun (a Japanese Steakhouse that prepares everything right at your table).
The kids favorite part? Not the show, the huge flames, the flaming/smoking onion volcano...but the ice cream that topped off the meal. Gotta love kids!

We all loved staying in town and "chill-axin". But life does return to normal and Wade is traveling again for work this week. (Don't feel too bad for him working so hard, he's in Mexico this time, the turd, I'm just a little jealous.)

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Who's idea was it to play games with flashlights? I want to be best friends with THAT person. SO much fun!! Awesome memories for you all! :-)