After a busy morning we were ready to leave around 1:00pm. It's a good thing we always pose for a car-trip self-portrait because I discovered my memory card was NOT in my camera! This would have been disastrous had we not been sitting in the driveway.
We couldn't check into our hotel until 3:00, so we drove to The Gateway to walk around and enjoy the surroundings...except for the heinous Jazz music being played (hence Whitney's amusing thumbs up).
We made it about 20 minutes before being ready for a treat and thought we'd get some Ben & Jerry's ice cream since that's such a rare treat...$18.75 later we tried to savor every bite. Good heavens, maybe they should offer payment plans!
We sat in the sun feeling the warm goodness of a perfect spring day.
We watched the kids frolicking in the water and were particularly amused by the little toddler girl in purple who was fearless.
Oh how I love tulip season!!!!!!!!!
Our Gateway self-portrait.
Our guest suite! Upon walking in Whitney proclaimed, "It's hideous!!" but has since changed her mind and decided she could live here if there was a kitchen. We unpacked and hung out for an hour before leaving to meet Adam, Amy and the girls at City Creek. Adam gave me some directions and said, "If you get confused just look for the pretty place with happy people."
I knew City Creek was going to be awesome, but it was even cooler than I'd imagined! It felt like a California Mall, not something we have in Utah. Woohoo!
We met at the food court for dinner so everyone was happy! (Adam had invited a neighbor kid who recently moved into their ward and has been feeling friendless.)
After dinner, we walked around some more.
After visiting City Creek, we went to our hotel so the kids could swim. This meant packing into an elevator where Adam entertained us by showing the kids how to play human pinball.
Our hotel has an indoor/outdoor pool and it was warm enough outside to use both, the kids were thrilled.
Is it just me or is Landon looking way older these days?!
We were able to play Quiddler at a table nearby while the kids swam. The weather was perfect! We decided game nights should always have a set up like this!
There was comedy involved with our sleeping set up because I booked a room with 2 double beds since a room with 2 queens would have been $50 more a night. Double beds are tiny and we're not!
We watched Mr. Popper's Penguins on pay-per-view and then began our long, challenging night of sleep. Landon ended up sleeping with me since my bed was closer to the air conditioning. Listening to Randy and Whitney "fight" for space in their bed was hilarious...I should have recorded them talking. It was a long night of fitful sleep, but decent.
6 comments:
Looks like a fun day and I think that guest suite looks nice so I'd have to disagree with Whitney. Although I do prefer my bed and personal space at home to any other!
I'm not a big ice cream person but Ben and Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk is one of my weaknesses.
What a great vacation.
The bed scenario made me laugh.
I am so glad you discovered the missing memory card before you left home!
We thought City Creek was pretty great, too. Funny that we were there the same day.
Landon is definitely looking older! But always so cute.
That is a fabulous game night set-up for sure. And no popcorn to vacuum up!
Oh dear, I would not enjoy hearing the bed arguments.
Is it weird that I wondered if I'd see you while I was at city creek today? Looks like I missed you by a day (assuming you were there yesterday).
Enjoy the rest of your spring break stay-cation!
Oh my goodness..this is funny. Double beds are sooo tiny. I sleep on a king by myself so sharing a double when I go on trips is painful!
It sounds so nice to walk around City Creek and Gateway in the nice weather.
Landon is looking so grown up and handsome!
Soo fun to stop by and catch up on what your family has been doing! I read all of this backward (from the top of the blog down) and chuckled so often. :)
I have missed reading your blog.
Looks like you had a great Spring Break!
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