Tuesday, February 16,2010

Today after having a great breakfast including making our own Belgium waffles we headed off to do some swimming! No - we did not do a polar bear plunge....instead we headed to the Six Flags indoor waterpark! First let me say the hotel is beautiful. It is a giant Adirondack style lodge. The inside is very rustic but beautiful.
We hit the waterpark. The first thing we enjoyed was the lazy river. Next Nick and Mikayla went done Avalanche which is the family raft slide (Zack was afraid to go). THe waterslides are really cool because the slides actually go outside the main building. After that Nick hit the other waterslides while the rest of us headed down to the lazy river again. Zack and Mimi enjoyed swimming in one of the little inlets. After Nicholas caught up with us we formed a choo choo and went around the lazy river a zillion times.
Finally Nicholas decided to try his hand (or body) at surfing.

Finally we decided we were water logged enough and decided to leave. We headed outside and it was snowing! Swimming and snowing all in one day....oh did I mention Kathy had to wear her wet bathing suit home! After getting home and taking showers, Kathy packed up all our stuff so we would not have to do it the next morning. We watched a little tv and finally decided to head out to Long John Silvers for dinner. After dinner Kathy went shopping at JoAnn's (love that place). We headed back to the hotel and watched Twilights New Moon.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Well, we awake this morning. We are well rested and Kathy is feeling a little better, but the weather is really cold today. We decide to change our plans a little bit because of the brutal cold. We decide that instead of going tubing we will go sliding and then we will go shopping. So after breakfast we head down to the lake to the ice slide and hill armed with out new slides. The kidss were kamikazi sliders. Let's just say on the first slide down - Mikayla went down the stairs, Zack slid down into a lamp post and Nick slid off a brick wall! The kids had a GREAT time and noone got hurt, although I think we all busted a rib laughing so hard! Next after changing and warming up we headed out for lunch. We went to Sweet Basil. The restaurant was excellent. We all enjoyed our meals. So we have 2 trivia questions today...... 1. On the menu was something called muff lotto....what is it? 2. Here are pictures of what we had to eat....match up each meal with the person. After a late lunch we headed out to find who could find the best deal of the day. Zachary was very happy he was able to find a video game that he was looking for, 2 Halo toys, and a new hat. Nick only bought a video game but he also bought birthday gifts for Mark and Jeanette (Happy Birthday), Kathy bought a new game (for girls weekend!!!!) but Mikayla won the prize for the deals of the day....she bought 3 new shirts and a new wool jacket and a dress for the 8th grade social....Regular price - $210 what she paid - $35!!!! She said it was like stealing the stuff and dropping a little money on your way out the door! She also bought a birthday present for Kathryn (Happy Birthday!) We headed back to the hotel for a light dinner since we were all still stuffed from lunch. Zachary has been anxiously awaiting the new Penguins of Madagascar and Kathy and Mikayla were awaiting 24! Speaking of which our thoughts and prayers go out to Kiefer Sutherland who under went emergency surgery for a ruptured cyst near his kidney