Our mini-vacation

Last night we had a little mini-vacation at a local hotel. The Courtyard Marriott in Milford is running a deal called the Family Escape Plan during the schools' February break. For $109 we got a room at the hotel, movie and popcorn, a pizza, breakfast, and of course the swimming pool. Heck, breakfast alone at this hotel would have cost $41.00!

Anyway...the hotel is not far from both the place we ate lunch and Target and Bed, Bath & Beyond where we stopped to run some errands on the way. When we pulled into the parking lot we said "We're here!" and Jake was in awe.

Jake: How did we get here? Was that magic?

Obviously our usual trips are much longer than that. The last time the children flew was when we came home from Seattle this past August. We had to fly through Detroit and had a 3+ hour layover in the early morning hours. It was a LONG day but the kids did awesome. This really boggled Jakey's mind....how could we get somewhere so quickly? And how badly is this going to throw him in two weeks when we fly out to Las Vegas?

When we got into the room, Jake (who sees his Grandma and Grandpa Lentz in hotels more often then their own house) asked "Where are Grandma and Grandpa?" He was very sad to realize we wouldn't be seeing them for another couple of weeks.

Anyway, our little mini-vacation was great. The kids went swimming for a couple of hours last night and a few hours this morning. The pool was pretty empty and there were only a few other kids in there but both times we outlasted the other families. It was very nice and now tomorrow it's back to the grind. Hannah has the week off so she'll be hanging with Grandma and Grandpa Snow for a few days and then at Miss Lori's. It's nice having a week where we don't have to worry about homework.