Our First Family Vacation- Day One

We had a very good first family vacation.  Two kids take so much more luggage than one adult.  I had the car packed full.  I have no idea of how I would ever travel by plane.  The girls need so many things to be comfortable at this age.  The back of the car was full and so was the passenger seat.  We left Thursday morning and stopped by Aunt Shirley and Unle Kenny's place.  The girls had a good time and didn't do too much damage to their house.  Uncle Kenny and Sasha played with a shape sorting ball and he made a friend in Sasha.

 After our visit, we went to Grizzle Jacks Grand Bear Lodge in Utica. 

The girls loved the lodge and we surprisingly confortable with the hotel room.  I thought they might be a little confused about being away from home, but they took everything in stride.  They really liked looking at the bear that was above the fireplace.  It tells a story at 7:30 each night, but we didn't make it.  Maybe next time.

They spent a lot of time looking around the hotel lobby.

They also like the big snowman.  Sometimes I forget how little they still are, but then I see a picture of them and realize they are still just tiny little things. 

Once we got our suitcases in the room, we hit the waterpark.  Once they got in the water, they took off and loved it.  The waterpark was not huge, but perfect size of them.  IT had a wave pool, but it was not on the day we went so they just splashed around the pool and then we went to the slides.

Pink Dora swimsuits are a requirement.

THey went down this slide dozens and dozens of times.  They look so little on it, but they slid down and then ran back around and did it again.

Neither can swim or even float, but that didn't stop them at all. 

The lodge also had a small indoor amusement park. If you look close, you can see a small train parked by the building, that drives you from the lodge to the amusement park. This was by far the girls favorite ride!  They love love love trains.  Since Sasha was so short, there were only 3 rides she could go on.  Aliens(little spaceships going in a circle), a carousel and the Tilt-A-WHirl.  Since Sasha was not 36"(only 34 1/4") , she couldn't ride without an adult.  I foolishly went on with them.  I forgot the I can NOT do spinning rides.  We took the train back to the lodge where I layed down to try to recover from the Tilt-A-Whirl. There were not many people there so they let the rides go a really long time!  Sasha and Leeza kept asking me if Mommy was sick.  Then I heard some russling and Sasha getting something out of the garbage.  She came back to me.  She asked me if Mommy was sick and did Mommy want something to eat and stuck her cold half eaten hamburger under my nose.  Not exactly what I needed at the time as that was the final straw and Mommy got sick in the bathroom with 2 little girls watching and giggling the whole time.  After that, we all got into one bed and went to sleep.  I got up and went to the other bed after they fell asleep.  They did very good sleeping in a big girl bed that night.