25 January 2009

if you're talking about time-traveling bunnies, then yes.


we had a fabulous vacation week with brian! the 18th and 19th we spent at grandparents' houses, and the kids had lots of fun. we had lasagna for supper at the rogers' on sunday night, and ian thought he was in heaven. that kid likes him some lasagna. monday late afternoon we headed back home, unpacked, and managed to relax a bit.

tuesday morning, we left for the dells around 10:30. i wanted to stay home till 11 to watch the inauguration, but brian was antsy to get on the road. we listened on air america in the van, but right before obama was to take the oath, they cut to commercial. who does that???? so, we missed it live, but watched on dvr when we got home. aretha had a nice hat. anyway, when we got up to the dells, we ate a quick lunch at subway before checking in to the hotel. we got checked in, and were waiting for the elevator with our huge cart of stuff and ian in the stroller...the elevator arrived, abby got on, and the DOOR CLOSED. with just her in it. we could hear her screaming and crying as the elevator went up. brian sprinted up the stairs to find her, but couldn't. so, we all got on the elevator, which was empty when it returned, and found abby on the second floor with a nice family. she wasn't crying at that point, but when she came to us, there was definite lower-lip poking out and quivering. NOT a good start to our vacation, but luckily, it was all better from there. we were impressed with our room...it had 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a full kitchen, fireplace, huge hi-def tv above the fireplace...it was the awesome. we got settled and ian had a nap, during which brian and abby took a walk. after ian's nap we changed into swimsuits and headed down to the waterpark. much chlorine-y fun was had by all, though abby refused to go down any waterslides, even the little-kid ones. she said that she'll do it when she's 10. i think it'll be before that, but you never know. ian occupied himself with climbing everything in sight...the side of the kids' pool, stairs, etc. everyone slept great that night, believe me. the next day, we got up, had breakfast, and waterparked it up for the rest of the day. we left for home around 3:30.

we had such a great time that we're probably going to make this an annual vacation, provided their rates don't go up. during the week in the off-season is definitely the time to go to the dells.

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