Well. We are on vacation. Yay!!
Both boys have the trots. Boooo!!
But - that is one of the reasons we are glad that we fell for the great sales pitch during our honeymoon and bought the timeshare (and, thankfully, quickly paid it off). In retrospect, probably wouldn't have spent the money, but at least now wherever we go we are in a home away from home and don't have to worry about being stuck in a hotel room with two bummed-out little boys. At least this way we all still have our own room, and hey!! - we have TWO bathrooms instead of one...ANNNNNDDDD - Matt and I don't have to army crawl to get past Luke in the middle of the night. HE is on the OTHER end of the condo. :) THAT is a vacation in and of itself. ;)
With our timeshare we have a point system, so while we may never make it to our deeded property, we can use the points that are allotted for a week's stay there to stay at any other Wyndham properties around the country, and break it up however we want. It works out pretty well. One of those properties is at the Wisconsin Dells, which is where we are this week. It's not a terribly far drive, and of course there's a big ol' water park (pretty much identical to Great Wolf Lodge). So I signed Levi up for swimming lessons to get him used to the water again, and have spent the past several weeks watching YouTube videos of the water park to get him geared up for playing at the really big, really fun swim house.
And then he got the trots. And, responsible parents that we are, we will not take a kid with the trots to the swim house.
This morning. "Levi, what do you want for breakfast?" No. "French toast?" No. "Apple slices?" No. "Banana?" No. Okay. French toast and banana it is. (Note: He inhaled it. He was just being obtuse.)
So...today we went to a train museum and rode on the vintage train. Which was really quite fun. We paid the extra $2/person to ride in the caboose, and as it turns out the computer had a glitch and didn't charge the extra amount, and no one else had signed up to ride in the caboose, so we had the whole car to ourselves. :) The train went out to an old quarry site, unhooked the engine, switched the track, and hooked the engine back up to the other end. So we got to be at the front of the train with the engine on the way back. The weather was beautiful, the scenery was lovely, and we got to hop off halfway through and ooh and ahh at the engine and watch the conductor switch the track.
We got back in the car and strapped Levi in, and he announced, "I didn't like the train ride."
Okay. At least the other three of us did.
Driving here yesterday was not our favorite day on record, but we still made decent time. Putting two kids with the trots in car seats for about seven hours does not a fun day make. We got twisted up getting on the tollway by Chicago, and then made a couple wrong turns trying to get BACK to the tollway...of course got stuck in a bottleneck on the Dan Ryan in Chicago, but that always happens...then planned on stopping once we got out north of the city, but apparently people who live on I-90 don't eat - or at least they don't want to share their food with anyone driving by, because they don't post any signage indicating where their food can be found. That was a slight debacle. We finally found some upscale shopping area that was clearly not zoned for anything fast-food oriented, so we went with Chipotle (don't get me wrong, love Chipotle, but they don't even have changing tables in the bathrooms). Had to change diapers and clothes on the bathroom floor and in the van. Levi wasn't terribly thrilled with a burrito bowl, but he's a food trooper so he shared mine reluctantly. We finally made it here, unloaded and I started a fine meal of hot dogs and tater tots...which he ate too quickly and threw up. So we spent dinner last night with a crying Levi in the bath tub, me cleaning up throw up, while Luke was doing the stiff-board-trying-to-slide-out-of-the-restaurant-style-high-chair move and bawling his head off because he was so tired...and....*sigh*...well, at least everyone went down for bed quickly.
And then I got to grocery shop at Walmart. I can see why a website is dedicated entirely to Walmart shoppers. Hoo boy.
Almost ready to go!!
Both boys actually traveled quite well. I brought little surprise toys and treats for Levi. Luke had his moments of displeasure, but what can you expect from a 7 month old? He was happy to get here, though.
But, we have a lovely condo to stay in, nice weather to boot, and beautiful places to visit, even if we can't go to the water park
right now. There's a riding stable across the way from us that has a
free petting zoo, there are a handful of lakes and state parks nearby
where we can go hiking, there are small rivers and rocky outcroppings
that are fun for little boys with trucks...a good time will be had this
week - even. with. the trots. ;)
Who knew cabooses were so cool?
Even Babyluke enjoyed looking out the window
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