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Mike had to work over 2 hours away from home every day this week and was getting tired with the long drives - Mike suggested half seriously, that we take a mini vacation as a family - two nights in a hotel. :) Of course we have to get two adjoining rooms as they won't let 10 people stay in one room even if it is just one family ;) LOL So Tuesday morning the kids and I booked the rooms, packed for 10 people, talked the neighbors into taking care of the chickens, and drove down and surprised Daddy by asking if he'd like to join us for supper at pizza hut in Janesville! :) It was a fun couple of days. The kids had coupons for pizza hut from the library's summer reading program so we got supper for all of us for just over $16! Then we went to toys r' us and looked around. It was fun seeing how excited the little girls were. They seldom get to go even down the "girl aisle" at walmart, so this was a treat. They didn't ask or expect anything to be bought, just delighted in seeing everything. The boys had money they'd earned and Jeremi found a transformer he'd been wanting, so he was allowed to get that. Mike decided to pick up a set of art supplies on sale for the girls to have something extra special. 4 bears in the bed and the little one said... ;) The next day after Daddy had gone to work, we got up and had breakfast in the hotel lobby then went back to our room and let the girls use their new art stuff while we decided what to do. We ended up visiting the huge walmart where we bought food for a picnic lunch and then went looking for a park. We found a rummage sale along the way and decided to stop by. Abi and Manda each found a 25 cent stuffed toy that I let them get and I got these darling little sandals that fit Emi perfectly! And joy of joys! I found a queen size feather bed! Now I've been dreaming about having a feather bed ever since we stayed at the Jamieson House bed and breakfast for our honeymoon, so it was just too cool to see it sitting there in it's zippered plastic bag just begging to come home with me! And I can tell you it is SO NICE to sleep on. Even Mike said that sleeping on the feather bed felt like being tucked in! ;) We asked the lady who was holding the garage sale if she knew of a nearby park, and sure enough there was one just a block away. Who hoo! So off we went to find the park. It was one of those parks that is built in the center of a circle of subdivision houses, all with their back yards backed up to it so you feel like you're almost trespassing even though there's a sidewalk marked "park public access" between two houses that you use to get to it. But we went anyway. ;) It was a lovely park with swings, slides, climbing wall, even a zip line!
And lunch was yummy with meat and cheese sandwiches, potato salad, cherries and grapes, chips, and lemon water.
Finally, we packed up to go back to the hotel And the girls zonked hard and slept for quite a while.
I didn't get pictures, but after nap we went swimming in the hotel pool - with Daddy joining us when he got off work. Then went out to Denny's for supper. And went back to the hotel for a well earned sleep before driving home in the morning. |
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Posted by Gramma Karen 
