Spring Break 2011: Girls Gone Wild......for Cherry Berry

Tulsa Raddison here we come.  

Me (from the bottom of the stairs):  C'mon Blueberry let's go.
MC:  I need some help with my things.
Me: (confused, because we had already packed) What things?
I walked in her room to find MC, who may have some hoarding issues, insisting that each of these items were totally necessary for our one night stay at the hotel. 



On the LAME/TAME/WILD scale for kid indoor pools, this one scored a TAME.  Just about right for MC - one little slide and this climbey thingy.  The best part was going to Dave & Busters for dinner, and I cannot believe I just admitted that in writing.  Best forty dollars I've spent in a long time watching the little gamblers-in-training go from machine to machine looking for the big pay-out.  I stole some swipes of their cards for skee ball and basketball, but they were not too happy with my lame return of coupons. Watching Mollie "hit the jackpot" on a game where she had no idea what she was doing, was glorious.  Kids gathered around as her 250 tickets made giant loop-de-loops on the ground.  We caught the fever then, and tried to make her repeat this act of skill. "But, this time, try to aim, and pop the ball into the 250 tube."  Bad advice, it turns out.  Her luck was better without adult intervention.  So, the girls pooled their coupons, all 1260 of them, and settled on a fuzzy elephant and some finger traps.

I am usually WILD about gardening and Spring Break is the time to put one in.  I was feeling pretty TAME, in my enthusiasm for the job, so I enlisted the help of these little hoodlums.  They worked pretty good at it for about 2 rows of peas, 1 row of carrots, and a row of beans.  I had to get the task master, who was busy building furniture, out of his garage to come and help me finish the job.  


It was fishing time for the boys and movie time
for the girls and baby Bode.  Actually this was Bode's very first movie:  RANGO
I had high hopes.  It is Johnny Depp, after all, and it scored like a 90% on RT.
I found it LAME, however. The creatures grossed me out, and not much grosses me out.  When Kate got scared, of course, she chose Madi to snuggle up with.  Bode hung in there for most of it, but, unlike me, could not fall asleep.  His mama worked tirelessly to get him comfortable, but had some paci mishaps, and then he went past sleep into delirious laughter. 

                                                       We did find that the girls (everyone but MC) was WILD for Cherry Berry.  They even won me over and that is not easy.  Their sign claiming that there is 4 live and active cultures in each serving, plus fresh blueberries, if you so choose, had me craving some triple chocolate and espresso "yogurt."  It's not Greek God's, but it is Spring Break so we went TWICE - that's how WILD we got!

I took Adam to the tennis courts where with one day of solid practice he would totally smoke me.  But as for now, I remain queen since he spends his free time off the courts.  Johnny and Ben also got a little Adam time too - fishing at Lake Hudson. 

Every meal, Kate would close her eyes, take a bite and say, "This is the best."  Papa had made her some Nutella on toast in the morning and she said it with a little more conviction, than she did previously with the broccoli. 

All in all, we are WILD for Spring Break.