Monday, October 13, 2008
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Sunday, October 12, 2008
DisneyWorld Trip- Day 2
This morning we got up and had a great breakfast at the hotel. We love staying at Embassy Suites because they have a door between the “room” and the front room so it’s easier to “divide and conquer” with the kids at bedtime, and because they have GREAT free breakfasts there. In Atlanta they even have good old fashion grits on the menu (I don’t like grits, but that is definitely a southern specialty). Everyone filled up on cereal, eggs, french toast, bacon, sausage, biscuits and gravy, muffins, donuts, fruit, hot chocolate, juice, bagels, toast… etc… they even cook omelet’s and eggs to order for you. Alex is a huge fan of the breakfasts and he is old enough now that we let him go and gather whatever breakfast foods he wants, and he can go back for 2nds and 3rds all he wants while the rest of us are eating. Surprisingly he doesn’t just fill up on donuts. He usually has bagels and cereal and muffins and juice and waffles.
When we realized that we would be spending the night in Atlanta, we thought it would be a great opportunity to go and visit the Martin Luther King Memorial. It was 10 minutes from the hotel and we had plenty of time in the day to spend a couple of hours there.
We went through the museum, and then walked over to where he and his wife are buried. Then we walked up a few blocks to his birthplace and saw and learned about the different architectural types of homes that were common back then. It was a neat experience. I don’t know how much Angela and Alyssa will remember about that, but I think Alex and Ashley were able to learn a little more about Martin Luther King.
From there we headed back onto the Interstate and down to Florida. The drive was uneventful. The kids really did well on the trip and we didn’t really have many complaints from them. We got to our hotel around 6pm I think. We were staying at the Nickelodeon Hotel, the one that you see the commercials for on Nick Jr. It was a fun place… a huge water park type thing in the center of the courtyard, and a “mall” with food court, and shopping areas.
We went over to the mall and were very surprised at the quality of food that they had at their buffet. We filled up and then went and played in the water until it was dark. Then we headed back to the room. The kids loved it because they give these plastic bracelets that everyone wears. Then instead of having a room key to keep up with, the bracelet has a electronic tag thing wrapped in plastic that opens your room door. They asked Rich if they should program Alex and Ashley’s bracelets to open the room too, and he said sure, so Alex and Ashley were always running ahead of us to be the first to the door to unlock it for everyone. (Alyssa and Angela didn’t get theirs programmed, they were too young for that option).
That night the kids loved the fact that they each had their own bed. The Nick Hotel has one bed in a bedroom, and then a little 2nd bedroom with a curtain door that has a bunk bed, and the living room area has a pull-out bed on the couch. The girls all slept in the room with the bunk bed, and Alex took the front room. They both had tv’s in their “rooms” and went to sleep watching tv- something they never get to do at home.
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Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7
Day 8
Day 9
Day 10 & 11
When we realized that we would be spending the night in Atlanta, we thought it would be a great opportunity to go and visit the Martin Luther King Memorial. It was 10 minutes from the hotel and we had plenty of time in the day to spend a couple of hours there.
We went through the museum, and then walked over to where he and his wife are buried. Then we walked up a few blocks to his birthplace and saw and learned about the different architectural types of homes that were common back then. It was a neat experience. I don’t know how much Angela and Alyssa will remember about that, but I think Alex and Ashley were able to learn a little more about Martin Luther King.
From there we headed back onto the Interstate and down to Florida. The drive was uneventful. The kids really did well on the trip and we didn’t really have many complaints from them. We got to our hotel around 6pm I think. We were staying at the Nickelodeon Hotel, the one that you see the commercials for on Nick Jr. It was a fun place… a huge water park type thing in the center of the courtyard, and a “mall” with food court, and shopping areas.
We went over to the mall and were very surprised at the quality of food that they had at their buffet. We filled up and then went and played in the water until it was dark. Then we headed back to the room. The kids loved it because they give these plastic bracelets that everyone wears. Then instead of having a room key to keep up with, the bracelet has a electronic tag thing wrapped in plastic that opens your room door. They asked Rich if they should program Alex and Ashley’s bracelets to open the room too, and he said sure, so Alex and Ashley were always running ahead of us to be the first to the door to unlock it for everyone. (Alyssa and Angela didn’t get theirs programmed, they were too young for that option).
That night the kids loved the fact that they each had their own bed. The Nick Hotel has one bed in a bedroom, and then a little 2nd bedroom with a curtain door that has a bunk bed, and the living room area has a pull-out bed on the couch. The girls all slept in the room with the bunk bed, and Alex took the front room. They both had tv’s in their “rooms” and went to sleep watching tv- something they never get to do at home.
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7
Day 8
Day 9
Day 10 & 11
Saturday, October 11, 2008
DisneyWorld Trip- Day 1
Saturday Morning we got up bright and early… we had loaded up the car the night before, so we just needed to change the kids, and toss the overnight bags, and cooler bag in the car and we were ready to go.
We’ve never driven east on a trip, so Rich wanted to see what it was like to drive through Arkansas (well we did drive to Arkansas before), and Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, and Florida. We got going and within an hour one of the kids needed to make a bathroom stop. We had actually forgotten to call out the road trip warning before we loaded the kids up of “go to the bathroom before you get in the car, because we aren’t stopping anytime soon”, so we felt that was as much our fault as anything. Once we got back on the road we made pretty good time. The kids had new DS and Game boy games that kept them entertained without any fights for quite a while. I had also gotten a few new DVD’s for Angela and Alyssa that kept them entertained. I was able to sit back and read for quite a while. Rich had also hooked his iphone into the car’s audio system so we were able to listen to a bunch of podcasts that he had accumulated for the drive. We even figured out how to get the BYU Football game that afternoon through the iphone so we could listen to that as we drove.
It was a pretty calm and relaxing drive that first day. The most drama of the day revolved around us getting off of the interstate to drive on some state highway’s, and being stuck in construction traffic, while Alyssa sat there and needed to go to the bathroom really badly… we probably sat in the traffic for a good 20-30 minutes… but that was the most drama we had that day. We got to the hotel that night around 10pm our time, 11pm eastern time. Angela fell asleep in the car and I was able to carry her into the hotel and lay her down without her waking up, and she slept through the night, so that was nice.
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7
Day 8
Day 9
Day 10 & 11
We’ve never driven east on a trip, so Rich wanted to see what it was like to drive through Arkansas (well we did drive to Arkansas before), and Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, and Florida. We got going and within an hour one of the kids needed to make a bathroom stop. We had actually forgotten to call out the road trip warning before we loaded the kids up of “go to the bathroom before you get in the car, because we aren’t stopping anytime soon”, so we felt that was as much our fault as anything. Once we got back on the road we made pretty good time. The kids had new DS and Game boy games that kept them entertained without any fights for quite a while. I had also gotten a few new DVD’s for Angela and Alyssa that kept them entertained. I was able to sit back and read for quite a while. Rich had also hooked his iphone into the car’s audio system so we were able to listen to a bunch of podcasts that he had accumulated for the drive. We even figured out how to get the BYU Football game that afternoon through the iphone so we could listen to that as we drove.
It was a pretty calm and relaxing drive that first day. The most drama of the day revolved around us getting off of the interstate to drive on some state highway’s, and being stuck in construction traffic, while Alyssa sat there and needed to go to the bathroom really badly… we probably sat in the traffic for a good 20-30 minutes… but that was the most drama we had that day. We got to the hotel that night around 10pm our time, 11pm eastern time. Angela fell asleep in the car and I was able to carry her into the hotel and lay her down without her waking up, and she slept through the night, so that was nice.
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7
Day 8
Day 9
Day 10 & 11
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Fun FHE last night
Last night we had a fun kind of spontaneous FHE...
Alex is trying to catch up on his cub scout goals that his previous den leader wasn't very good about getting him to do (that would be ME!). So his current den leader is a lot better at this than I was (Rich) and Alex needed to plan an outdoor meal. Originally we planned that we would just do it in the backyard and have a picnic, but yesterday Rich woke up early to go running before work and it was raining, so he went to work early and came home. He got home and was getting ready to go run at a local park and asked if I just wanted to come and meet him at the end of his run and we would have the picnic there... then we decided that instead of trying to meet up there, we would just load the car up with the kids bikes, and stuff to make our dinner (hamburgers and hotdogs and the George Forman counter grill to cook it on) and the kids could play while I cooked them and Rich went for a run.
So we did... and we went to a new pavilion at the park that we haven't been to before and had a great time! It even started raining right as we sat down to eat and a few others that were walking by us thought it was so funny that I had brought the george forman grill to cook on, but it was a lot faster to cook on and clean up than charcoal would have been!
The kids rode their bikes, ran around and played tag, and then played on the playground with Mom and Dad afterwards... it was a great FHE... and we had icecream at home after we got home. :)
Alex is trying to catch up on his cub scout goals that his previous den leader wasn't very good about getting him to do (that would be ME!). So his current den leader is a lot better at this than I was (Rich) and Alex needed to plan an outdoor meal. Originally we planned that we would just do it in the backyard and have a picnic, but yesterday Rich woke up early to go running before work and it was raining, so he went to work early and came home. He got home and was getting ready to go run at a local park and asked if I just wanted to come and meet him at the end of his run and we would have the picnic there... then we decided that instead of trying to meet up there, we would just load the car up with the kids bikes, and stuff to make our dinner (hamburgers and hotdogs and the George Forman counter grill to cook it on) and the kids could play while I cooked them and Rich went for a run.
So we did... and we went to a new pavilion at the park that we haven't been to before and had a great time! It even started raining right as we sat down to eat and a few others that were walking by us thought it was so funny that I had brought the george forman grill to cook on, but it was a lot faster to cook on and clean up than charcoal would have been!
The kids rode their bikes, ran around and played tag, and then played on the playground with Mom and Dad afterwards... it was a great FHE... and we had icecream at home after we got home. :)
Monday, October 06, 2008
Weekend
I love weekends... :) Rich is home, we have fun as a family...
Now it's monday again and we are back to the routine...
5 more days and we are off on our trip though!! yeah!
I'll try and get on here and update better on what we did in the last week sometime soon. :)
Now it's monday again and we are back to the routine...
5 more days and we are off on our trip though!! yeah!
I'll try and get on here and update better on what we did in the last week sometime soon. :)
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