Once you have kids spontaneity seems to come to halt. Prior to my children, I considered myself a spontaneous person and I loved it. This past weekend I decided enough was enough. At 11 am Saturday, with no plans, I asked my husband if he wanted to grab the kids and head to Cincinnati for the weekend. He agreed and within 2 hours we were on our first spur of the moment road trip. I felt free!
We knew we couldn't plan a lot of activities with our little ones so we kept it simple. Our plan was to hit Ikea on Saturday, have some dinner and get the kiddies back to the hotel and settled for the night. The next morning we were going to head to the Newport Aquarium have lunch and head home. The whole trip went off without a hitch! Okay so there was one hiccup... my dear daughter snores like an 80 year old man and my husband and I couldn't fall asleep. Thank goodness we stayed in a Homewood Suites* so there was a separate living room with a pullout couch. So as the princess slept in her bed (E stayed in his pack-n-play) we were sleeping on a pullout couch. All in all a good trip and a great way get a little change of scenery not far from home.
She is so excited about staying in a hotel. She loves hotels!
Someone was in need of a nap. Within minutes of taking he was looking at the back of his eyelids (this was his first time facing forward since turning 1 so it wasn't till we reached the south side of C-Bus that he finally feel asleep...too much to check out).
Having fun at the hotel.
The princess all set up in her kingdom.
The ugliest turtle I have laid eyes on!
Getting a shark on her face, a highlight for her trip (hotel was the big one).
Evan feeling the love from his sister.
A SUCCESSFUL TRIP HOME!!!
6 comments:
That sounds nice! Did you stop at Jeffersonville at all?? I almost headed that way on Sunday. I had a great Tanger Outlet within 5 minutes from me in Texas ... I miss that!
No outlets...shopping is not a fun activity with the entire Sharp clan.
MB,
I love the spontaneous "bug" you caught esp. after the real "bug" you had! Sounds like what you needed and sometimes the trips not too far away are fun. I have never been to that aquarium ... was it worth the price? Reasonable? Thx for offering the help when Ava's recuperating .. you are sweet.. we'll be fine. I will call you if I need anything ... We could just use a prayer up to the big guy!
We hope to see you guys soon!
Lots of prayers! I got Carol Corby praying as well!
LOL, good ole' Carol ... power in prayer sista' ... have a good weekend, yours will be better than mine!
I totally beat you with our spontaneous 580 mile trip to SoCal, although admittedly, there was Hotel Nani at the end of the journey! AND tomorrow i have to make the looong drive home. bleh.
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