After moving we NEEDED a vacation. We planned on making a trip to Minnesota to visit Mike's family, eat, relax, laugh, eat, maybe go to the Mall of America for Legos and Nickelodeon Universe, eat, have more fun than we should, and eat some more. Unfortunately, that didn't work...mostly cause we didn't have the house in Pleasant Grove rented yet :(. I was so sad, I cried! But since Mike had three days off work, plus a weekend, we had a staycation!
We started our staycation at the Living Planet Aquarium...Mike had free penguin encounter certificates. We were excited! Too bad Jackson freaked out when we went in the room to be with the penguins so I took him out and we missed the whole thing. There was, however, a closed caption screen we watched it on. One penguin almost bit Emma's foot! Luckily she was wearing closed toe shoes. I got many pictures, but not on my camera....
Day 2 Mike and I took Ethan and Emma to Lagoon! Jackson got to stay with Grandma and nap :) This was my first trip to Lagoon since I was 16 and everyone else's first time EVER! When Mike and I were dating, he took me to Valley Fair and it was so so so so fun! I didn't know if he'd like Lagoon as much, he loved it! The rollercoasters were AWESOME!
We started off the day at the merry-go round! (Emma's choice!)
We're crazy in love!
I was surprised that Ethan was not too tall to go on most of the "kiddie" rides. He almost kissed his knees he's so tall, but he's still 2 inches below the height limit!
Mike wanted to go on the white...brown...rollercoaster so I took the kids on the merry-go round again.
Ethan found the dragon that he really wanted to ride. I think he looks GREAT on it!
The ride The Spider had this big spider over the entrance to it. Creepy! I don't think Emma liked it either!
Ethan REALLY wanted to play some games and Mike agreed to PLINKO! And unless you are terrible, you win!
Ethan and Emma won medium sized snakes
They got lollypops too!
HUGE lollypops!
Me and my kiddos!
I can't do the tilt a whirl, I get too sick afterwards, so Mike took the kids on the tea cups. Emma was so sad because she wanted to pink cup and the mean girls in front of her heard so they ran and got to it first.
The kids drove trucks around a track. Mike told Ethan if he (Ethan) ran into him (Mike) that he'd pay him $100! There was no way that they could run into each other.
Mike smack talked Ethan
But had a great time with Emma
Day 3...again no pictures. We went to 7 peaks to swim and have fun in the sun...hence no camera! :)
The last day, we planned to rest, it had been three days of fun fun fun. We went to a movie in the afternoon, but before that, we had a thunder and rain storm. We wanted to sit on the porch to watch it, but as soon as we opened the door, the rain came pouring in. The wind was blowing it right to our front door. We did eventually make it out there and I took a few pictures.
Ethan had fun!
My kids really do love eachother
I tried so hard to get pictures of Emma dancing in the rain! This one is decent!
And when Jackson sees the camera pointed to his face, he CHEESERS!
After the rain storm, we went to catch a showing of Despicable Me 2! The power was out at the first theatre we went to so we booked it to another theater and made it. The movie is so so so so funny! I am definitely going to buy he bluray. After the movie, Mike and Ethan went to the block party our neighborhood had. (It was bed time and they were exhausted so I stayed home and put Emma and Jackson to bed!)
We had fun! We spent time together, we were lazy, one day we were still in our jammies at noon!
Fun times!
Minnesota, we will see you in December!
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