Thursday: vacation

Ben took the day off today.  We started with pick-a-brick cups.

Joshua made an amusement park.

The rest of the family was a bit confused about mine for most of the build.  To be fair, this is what they saw:

When it got turned around, they saw a small bedroom with a sign that says, "Dream Big".  The assorted builds are all different dreams.  A monster dream, a space dream, a nice outside dream, a firework dream, and a trees in the wrong colors dream.

Ben had a bit of a hard start.  He ended up with a Picasso chick.  Its the same on the opposite side.

Isaac had a hard time too, but ended up making an infinity cube.

Last night Grey Bear was very worried that Snowfoot wasn't getting enough attention and decided that he needed to be cuddled all night.  Snowfoot was put into my pillowcase so I wouldn't forget.

Joshua and I also made raspberry buckle.  However, he dropped the sugar container.  At first I thought it was mostly fine...the container spilled right side up and not much sugar came out.  But then...it turns out that sugar is really hard to clean up from such a spill.  Also, my sugar container was cracked.  I was actually pretty mad about that, but I didn't realize it for long enough that I was smart enough not to say anything to Joshua.  I was also smart enough to realize that the sugar container is not really that important and that there were some weird emotions remembering Mom's sugar containers that I recently got rid of.  Anyway, I fixed it with some packing tape and called it a day.  We'll see if, or when, I get a new one.

vacation Thursday: picture day

Welcome to Thursday!  I don't think anyone actually played Scrabble, but everyone nicely kept the themed words going throughout the week.

Since it was a low-key day, it was pancake breakfast morning.  We went all out and pretty much gave the kids sugar topped with pancakes.  It's vacation after all.

I didn't take any pictures of the normal bedrooms, so this will have to do.  Having so many bedrooms was wonderful.  The kids could sleep in the fun rooms, and every family still got two rooms.  In our case the kids kept their stuff in the second room and Isaac showered there, but every family had some nice flexibility to do what they desired.

                             

The Legos came out mid-morning.

Ben slowly attracted more and more kids.

Meanwhile, Joshua was working on making a castle in the foam pit.

More children came, so more LEGOS came out and Ben had to move.

Then he caught an adult and all but one of the kids.

Ok, so he was the distraction while pictures were getting set up.  I like the picture, but wish I had been sitting up a bit more.

The kids, again in age order.  They figure it out pretty quickly.

The mad kids.

Everybody!

Everybody being crazy.

Traps.  There is always time for traps.  I'll trap in a dress.  (Although I do have shorts on.  I found some with a pocket for my phone.)

I really trapped him.

...although it appears that I lost a sock.

Joshua finished his castle.

The ladies went out for lunch.

                                                   

Then to a chocolate museum.  Some history of chocolate, some chocolate sculptures, and a tasting.  

The chocolate tasting was really good.  I ended up getting some for Ben for Father's day: some dark blackberry and some dark spice.

Our tickets also included fondue.  I shared with Katy and it worked out well because she didn't like the bananas and I don't love marshmallows.

It was also Katy's birthday!  While we were gone the guys picked up the cakes, decorated, and the kids swam in the pool.  

I finally got on the ninja course.

...and off it.

We tried getting dropping pictures of the kids; it worked for some.

This hop had some weird name, but I was able to do it.

Meanwhile, Ben and Katy went to Disney Springs so that Katy could get Gideon's cookies.  Since it is often a long wait, they could also go to the Lego store.  Well, it turned out that there was only a 15 minute wait for the cookies, which is unheard of.  I was expecting they'd be gone most of the evening, but they were back within a reasonable time.  And the pick-a-brick wall had a bunch of pieces that we don't have in cool colors, so that was exciting.  It's a good thing that I brough a chip suitcase, because we definitely needed it on the way home for Legos.

I played with the kids in the pool again.  Probably mern-urp, which is me pretending to be a shark.

Cookies came back in time for the kids to enjoy some.

And Ben pointed out all the cool pieces he found.

After the kids were in bed we played Decrypto.  I like the game.  It's similar to code-names with some twists.  We were still able to have some 'girl clues' to the chagrin of the guys.

Wednesday: rain

It was a rather boring day, but that was also rather nice.  Joshua was able to finish all his chores today...he's been granted several stays the last few days.  He even finished them all before dinner!  They had swimming lessons that those went well.

We also had a wonderful rain storm.  It was great.