Adventure Weekend Getaway

This past weekend we planned to surprise the kids with a trip to my Dads down in Windsor (2.5 hours from us). Our family photos were rescheduled to Friday night, so that meant we couldn’t leave until Saturday morning. 

But it also gave me the chance to goto “book club” Friday night. So it was fun. 

Our family photos didnt quite go as planned, and quickly turned into a lifestyle shoot and we just went with it and made memories instead. Em was all about exploring and didn’t want to be held at all. But we did get some really great photos, which I will share next week!

Our plan Saturday morning was to leave by 7:30 since the kids have been waking soo early, but of course Em slept in until 8:30! So we were on the road by 9. The drive down went pretty well and both of them were excited for an adventure. 

We pulled up to my Dad’s and they still didnt know where we were! When we walked up the driveway, he asked if that was Grandpa’s truck and then recognized his dog. They were soo excited! We visited, made the kids some lunch and put them down for a quick nap. Dad and I went and picked up Arby’s for lunch for the adult. That was my first time ever gong there and the curly fries were amazing! I wasn’t soo keen on the rest of the menu though (picky eater).

After an hour of napping, we woke the kids up, packed them into the car and went to Adventure Bay, which is a nice sized water park. It was pricey considering we were only there a few hours, but it was worth it. We all had a blast!

 

There were lots of water slides, including 2 really big ones and Noah was able to do all of them, except the big blue one. So Daddy took him on the big yellow one first, he seemed to like it, so I took him. Well little did they warn me about the drops and i wasnt able to swear... We got to the end of the slide and Noah fell out, which made me getting off the tube nearly imposisble haha. 

Em had one slide she could do, which kind of sucked, but she LOVED that slide and did it over and over again!! Even after she banged her cheek off the side of it, she didnt react, just kept on going!

We also had fun in the lazy river, which the kids just swimmed around, the wave pool, splash area, water tables and even a rec pool (we didnt go in that). It was a lot of fun. 

We got back to my Dad’s, the kids payed with the neighbour kids before supper. Cindy made us all a yummy dinner and then we played, went to the park and visited some more before we put the kids down. The kids went to bed suprisingly easy for being away from home, but we knew they were tired. 

Sunday morning the kids were up by 6:30, which meant for a long drive home that day. We had breakfast, played and read books for a bit before we packed up the SUV and left. It was a LONG drive home. The kids were fighting over toys, and Em needed to sleep, but wouldn’t. We stopped at Costco as well in London, it ended up being a nice break for the kids. We grabbed lunch and got home just in time for naptime!

After nap we wet outside to soak up the rest of this warm beautiful weekend!

Maggie was trying her hardest to be mad at us, but she couldn’t handle it. 

Before we knew it, it was bath and bedtime!

Crazy how jam-packed this weekend was with fun, we were sad to see it end, but happy all at the same time because it almost becomes exhausting! 

I wonder what our Adventure Weekend will be next month! I should likely get planning that!