Mini Maple Grove Vacation

Lately, between the little guys activities and Mitch's activities, early bedtimes for Joel and Grant, late bedtime and friend happenings for Mitch, it seems that it is rare that the 5 of us have the chance to just be together. Hence, we decided (since this past weekend was one of the last totally free weekends of our busy summer), to take just a little get-away together. We only made it about 40 minutes from home, but that was just fine. We booked a room at the Holiday Inn in Maple Grove and had a nice little time.

Thanks GOD for the game room, since at about 6:30 pm, immediately after the large pool had finally opened after someone had thrown-up in it RIGHT before we had arrived, everyone had to evacuate the pool AGAIN because of a tornado warning. This time, the pool was closed for about another hour and a half!

Finally, it was time to swim again!... no more torado warnings, no more sick people in the pool:)

Movie time in the room... "Tangled" was the choice... a princess movie the boys like:)

The special morning treat went over quite well, powdered sugar donuts...can you tell they don't usually get donuts for breakfast!?!

How nice of Grant to bring one to a still sleeping Mitchell (notice the bite out of it).... lol

It was a fun weekend, overall, despite the "pool problems" and aftermath of seriously over-tired kids:)