Thursday, November 6, 2008

Catching up, part 2

I really want to do this post justice because our vacation was awesome. I cant say enough good things about where we went. Our room was perfect, the price was perfect and the water park was perfect. We had so much fun. We arrived at the hotel on Saturday at 1, buy couldn't check in until around 2:30 when our room was ready. We could've gone into the water park early and swam before our room was ready, but we just looked around and than waited in the hotel lounge. We went with Dave's parents and the room was perfect for all of us. It was a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom suite with a full kitchen and and washer/dryer. His parents had their own room and bathroom, and a small kitchen, but they were still connected to the living room, dining room area by a door. We had a huge bathroom which was nice for bathing the kids and the kids slept in the living room area, Reece in his pack and play and Sierra on the pull out sofa. We even had a roof top hot tub on our floor, which we shared with only 2 other rooms, pretty sweet.
The water park was so awesome. The kids loved the little toddler swim area and the hot tub. Reece got really good at going under water and we spent a lot of time in the hot tub with him jumping off the side to me so he could go under water and I'd raise him out after a few seconds. He did this over and over and over again, it was really cute. I'll post a video later. They both loved going down the little slides and Reece actually got really good at it. i would walk him up the stairs and then i would walk around to the bottom of the slide to catch him, than we would walk back over to the stairs and do it again, we did this for hours, but he loved it so much that it didn't bother me one bit. It was nice that Sierra was able to play in the toddler area with no help, it was only one foot deep so I didn't have to worry to much because she could hold her head above water easily. She was even able to touch in the hot tub the first 2 days until they filled it up and she was really proud of that. Dave loved the continuous wave for body surfing. He said it was really hard and it took a lot of strength to control. He actually got pretty good and could do a few tricks, but he never tried actually surfing standing up. He said he'd need more time to perfect it.
We had so much fun and we definitely want to go again with a big group. It was a really fun and inexpensive vacation because we only had to pay for gas and our room. The water park was included in our room and we brought all of our food with us so we didn't have to eat out at all, big money saver.
They loved this slide.
Watching daddy surf.

Dave was really good, but I was too chicken to try it.
They went down together a few times, but then they told us they had to go one at a time.

Watching bob the builder on our first night.
They were so tired by Sunday afternoon, they went down for naps so easily, they were right in the living room with us and just closed their eyes and were of the slumber land.





4 comments:

Shannon said...

OH MY GOSH! WE are SOOOO doing that all together when we visit! What a blast! Holy cow! And of course they crashed for naps, you tired them babies out! I can't wait till we can come! We should plan on it for next summer. Miss you!!

Mindi said...

I think it would be for fun in the cold weather like fall/ spring because it's cold outside and we'll want to be inside. AThey also ha da notice up about how they let the sunshine in during the summer so you have too protect yourself, but the whole reason we want to go is so we dont have to worry about the kids skin. I think it would definitely be such a blast to go with you guys, the kids would have such a fun time playing together and we could do a lot of relaxing and visiting. Don't get my hopes up if you don't really want to do it because I'm already feeling excited just thinking about it.

Melanie Kym said...

I'm so glad you guys had a good time. Where did you guys go? Can't remember if you told me. Next vacation is just for you and Dave though. Let me know so I can babysit!!!!!!

NICHOLE said...

Wow, that looks like so much fun! I want to go now!