William referred to our Grand Canyon/LEGOLAND/San Diego trip as his "triple vacation" since we stayed three different spots, so I will refer to our weekend roadtrip to Kansas City/Olathe as our "double vacation."
After all the time off in June, my to do list caught up with me in July. Luckily John (who was already going to do all the driving anyway) and William (who liked the company) were both amenable to me setting up my mobile office in the backseat! William and I both enjoyed some screen time!
Our first stop was the Great Wolf Lodge at the Legends! Apparently the new thing is wolf ears for the kids registered in the room. They were used as head gear and spy glasses among other things. This summer I finally realized that those swimming lessons for the kiddo had paid off! He enjoyed pushing our tubes through the lazy river and, as always, enjoyed the adventure of the big slides. And I don't know what kids find so appealing about thousands of gallons of water dumping on their heads, but my kid was no exception. He staked out the drenching regularly.
We enjoyed a lovely evening at John's sister's house. The two six-year-olds entertained themselves and then us with their "Circus" variety show. It is very hard to get a picture of two moving kids!
Part Two of our roadtrip took us out south to "Aiden's house," where the boys (and girl!) disappeared into the basement and only reappeared sporadically over the weekend to make the parents targets of a Nerf battle.
Sunday the rain stayed away and we got to relive 2003 by taking the boat out on Clinton Lake for some tubing and swimming! Only in 2015, the cooler was stocked with juice boxes in addition to beer! I wondered how William would do swimming in the lake where he couldn't see the bottom. Turns out it didn't gross him out as much as it did his mother at that age!
Here the boys are just sharing the single rider tube while we were in the cove. William was pouting because we told him we were out of time for more tubing! My little adventurer loved it! Always looking forward to our next big adventure with the Koudeles!
After all the time off in June, my to do list caught up with me in July. Luckily John (who was already going to do all the driving anyway) and William (who liked the company) were both amenable to me setting up my mobile office in the backseat! William and I both enjoyed some screen time!
Saturday morning we checked out of the Lodge and headed downtown for Science City fun with the family followed by lunch at Fritz's. Even after all the pictures I have seen of Fritz's on Facebook and other people's blogs, I have to admit that I hadn't quite "pictured" how the train drop-off worked!
