Okay, so I got this crazy thought since I knew there would be plennnnnty of tv watching as Makin recuperated from surgery...lets get through this plane ride without any DVDs...so Super Dad Brad found us lots of Magic Tree House audio books we could put on our phones. Worked wonderfully!!!
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| Awesome Airport Seats |
Lost LuggageI'm officially going to cram our stuff into carry-ons moving forward. Can't even tell you how many kids I saw toting around a backpack and pulling a carry-on through the airport...that is going to be us! I have flown twice in the last year, and BOTH times my luggage was lost. I'm officially motivated.
By day two we checked our bags status and it was still in Dallas (can you say DIRECT FLIGHT PEOPLE!?!) so we made a trip to Target to get the things we needed to survive another night/day. We called and talked to customer service every day to "nudge" our bag along and finally got it Friday, 4 days after we arrived. Brad and I were very thankful the bag with our clothing made it with us. So much easier to buy a quick outfit for the kiddos. This pic is the kids showing off their new jammies and tooth brushes. Of course that was the bag I moved all my shoes, soap and makeup into since ours was too heavy...I'll try to end the rant now...but in case you keep wondering why Brad needs to shave in the following pictures, now you know he was waiting for his shaving supplies to arrive. :)
Nauticus
This was a museum Brad and Lorelei went to last November and Makin wanted to check it out since he missed out last time. They especially enjoyed running around exploring The Wisconsin.
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| From Left, Clockwise - Loved trying to capture items with the claw in the yellow sub. The Wisocnsin Petting some kind of crab, seeing jellyfish in the water by the ship (Lorelei spotted them!). Pretend fishing. |
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| Such exploring to be done on a ship this size! I have no idea how they ever learned where anything was on these things. My favorite part was the donut shop. They had donuts all day long according to the info I read! |
Favorite Foods
We wanted plenty of yummy food before the mush diet. :) No surprise at what Makin picked for our last meal! Brad and I decided a hotel with a kitchen would be important this trip, especially with how many days they wanted us to stay after the surgery! It made a HUGE difference in our sanity for the recovery time and we were really glad we made that choice.
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| (Not in the day's order.) Magnum bars (crushed up for loose teeth) fish sticks with mac n cheese, chocolate chip Eggo waffles |
First Friends
I love that we can get together with Melissa and her family when we visit. It seems like so long ago these kiddos were having playdates together before they were even in preschool. We saw the Bonfiglios one evening and one afternoon during our stay.
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| Taking a walk. Lorelei and Kira playing in the snow with Callie. The boys enjoying a game of ping pong. |
Beach Time
This is Lorelei's happy place. No doubt about it. I'm not sure I ever see the girl smile as big as she does when she is at the beach. Combining beach pictures into a collage just doesn't work most of the time...can't do them justice!
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| We took a walk one evening (when normal humans would not wear swim suits ;) ) and saw some HUGE jellyfish. We were walking to look for shells and saw about 10 jellyfish this size on the sand. Much of the time Lorelei liked to pretend to be a dog. :) |
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| The weather wasn't great for Makin, but we talked him into getting out the warmest/sunniest day. My favorite part was that as soon as we got him out to where his sister was playing that morning (first day "home" after surgery) we looked out at the water and a dolphin jumped out right in front of us. It was like they waited just to make our day! :) |
There has to be a lot of down time worked in when recovering from surgery. We stayed several days longer this time than last time, which made the trip home much more doable, but the hotel stay does get long when you can't get out much.
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The hotel pool was a bit iffy, for the most part Brad thought it was too cold, but he toughed it out as much as he could swim with L. She swam at least a short amount almost every day. We saved some of the easier school work for the hotel, so we didn't have quite as long of a week beforehand trying to fit a week and a half of work into a weekend. Lots of TV after recovery. The hotel had a game room which Makin loved. It was a little variety when he got sick of TV.
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| Mug of ice cream soup. Every. Day. |
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| When a little boy doesn't want to clean the dried up blood out of his nose... you make sure and tell him they look like walrus tusks! Anything to make it more fun! |
Amazing views to brighten up our days and nights!
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| Dolphin Watch - saw them almost every day...even saw a baby once! We also saw some kind of whale one day, couldn't figure out what kind but that was pretty awesome! |
Loved the kiddos playing Legos at the airport. It is pretty rough combining the mush diet with a full day of traveling. I am amazed at how many smoothie/ice cream places they have at airports, but its still not great on any tummy when you combine sugary mush diet with flying nerves...Was so glad to get home.
We loved seeing you all and I'm glad that Lorelei got a bit of beach time in. Miss you all!
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