It was the week before the performance, and I was feeling a little stir crazy. Or just crazy. Anyway, we had been planning on "sometime" in the summer going to either Omaha, St. Louis, or Chicago (yes, we are exactly in the middle of nowhere) with some funds we had earned swabbing our throats for staph.
So, at about 3:00 pm on Friday we decided to go to Omaha for the weekend. It was such a fun trip because I did not have to plan or prepare. We just escaped. And if I forgot to pack something... oh well, of course I forgot to pack something when I had to get five people's stuff together in 30 minutes.
The kids loved the car ride because they got to watch movie after movie after movie....
Justin drove the whole way because I am a slacker.
And I took a picture of myself to prove I was there.
Driving into Omaha we saw that at least some of us were expected:
Waiting in the lobby of the fancy smancy hotel - we decided to go to a little nicer hotel so we could enjoy the pool. The kids thought this might actually be a pool. I said it wasn't, but when Justin came to fetch us after checking in - he told them it was. I told him to watch out or GQ might jump in.
M is in fact wearing a leotard. She wears them every day. If I tell her to get dressed in real clothes she puts the real clothes on top. This is a nightmare when it comes to pottying in an emergency, and we have consequently had several accidents lately. Now she can only wear a leotard if she was accident-free the day before.
Sleeping on the bed.... How many times can you say "don't touch me"???? Several. GQ was the last to fall asleep and spent about 30 minutes kicking the headboard. I'm sure you wish you were our hotel neighbors.
Don't forget the mummy:
We went swimming early Saturday morning since my kids enjoy waking up at the crack of dawn. It was really nice though, because we had the pool to ourselves. (Except for the lap-swimmer who we scared away). In the pool:
Unfortunately, my children are very much related to me. They were quite frightened of the water. M preferred the hot tub - no surprise there.
The next day we went to the zoo.
I don't have very many pictures there because I was running out of batteries in my camera. Hey, I didn't know I was going on vacation, remember?
I think Justin thought he was going to be in this picture:
Thinking of Cousin Samson on his mission. Do you see a resemblance?
And, finally, we visited the Mormon Trail Center (thanks Elisa for guiding us all the way from Utah).
Luckily they had free cookies, because we were starving by then.
What a fun family trip! From now on I think I'll save money and then wait for the trip-bug to bite me. It was much more fun this way.