That Vacation Where Quinn Liked Water

I'm ba-ack! Did you miss me? It has been nuts around here. Our last few weeks have been spring break, Easter/Auntie's birthday, snow day, stomach flu, mom out of town for a week, LOTS and LOTS of snow (it's still coming down) ... and here we are. We're about to rewind all the way back to spring break and see how much I can remember from our super awesome trip.

Monday morning, we headed to the WaterDome. We were thrilled that our room this year was a few hallways closer to the water parks and was a lot easier for our walkers to actually walk. Yay! We splashed around the kid area, the wave pool, and even did a whole family trip down the big tube slide. It was SO fun to all go together - and thanks to Cheryl, we even have photographic evidence!

While Hannah and Dec took an afternoon rest, Mike took the girls down to the arcade. Dec and I wandered down to meet them when he woke up. While he and Mike played games, the big kids and I headed into the Kids Club room and played BINGO. We didn't win, but Quinn and Jack had such a good time that they desperately hoped to go back the next day.

We made an early dinner while the kids watched part of a movie and then went to the Klondike Cavern waterpark. After a brief but terrifying scare where we didn't know where Quinn was (and then a short reminder about making sure Dad hears you before you take off into the kids play area), we settled in. The water was "too cold" for Fiona (she was just tired), which meant Quinn decided it was too cold for her too. That was a bummer because for most of the trip, Q was all in on the water stuff. Such a difference from last year!

The girls and I hit up the lazy river for a while, but some rather drunk and rude adults did their best to ruin that experience. At one point, I had my elbow hooked on Fiona's tube and was running and pushing my way through other tubes to catch up to Q's tube (where she was screaming and sobbing) because a big group holding on to each other had gone by and separated us. Luckily, there was another mom up by Q who at least kept her eye on her and was talking to her and making sure she knew her mom was coming. We decided to walk over to the WaterDome to finish up the night and had a much better time there.

Both Sunday and Monday night, after the kids had gone to bed, the four adults played Fun-Employed. It was as ridiculous as it was at Christmas and there were at least two times where Brad and Mike had tears running down their faces because they were laughing so hard. One of the many of our favorite parts of traveling with the Ps is getting to spend adult time with them! By the end of Monday night, we were celebrating that we weren't as bone tired as the year before.