Brian and I planned a mini-vacation for the kids over this winter break. Just a couple of days, jammed packed with fun stuff for energetic boys. The best part was that we kept it a surprise, all of it, they found things out on a need to know basis. So, I packed us up for a night at the Milwaukee Hilton City Center, located right downtown. The view was awesome. We left our house and told the boys we were going shopping, they were not excited to leave their Lego creations behind. They watched a movie on the way down and Haley slept. When we parked they had lots of questions, Brian went and pulled out the suitcases and they were so excited that we going to sleep in a hotel, and maybe the hotel had a pool :) The reason we chose this hotel was that they have a waterpark in the hotel! The boys could not believe it, they couldn't wait to go down waterslides, play basketball and go into the humongous hot tub. Needless to say we had a wonderful time spending hours and hours swimming and turning into prune-like creatures. I still can smell chlorine. Here are some pictures of our fantastic time!
This is the view from our room. I think we were in it for 3 minutes, just enough time to change into our suits, before heading down to the waterpark.
Haley's favorite part of our hotel room was the mirrored closet with sliding doors. She would hide inside the closet and close the doors, getting some quiet time to herself. Haley also needed to check herself out in her swimsuit before heading down to the pool. Such a girl.
You can tell by the smiles that the boys are VERY excited to be at the waterpark. Tyler is in front and Jacob is behind.
Little miss Haley liked the zero-depth entry and would just walk in and out of the pool.
Big muscled man Tyler conquered the lillypad/monkey bars with gusto.
Water spouts and water canons were a big hit with all the kids.
Our family
Jacob showing off his toothless grin!
I took Haley down one of the "big kid" slides and she wasn't too sure about the whole thing.
Blue eyes is giving daddy the sad eyes after her slide experience.
We had a wonderful, wonderful family time and can't wait till we can do it again!!!!
This is the view from our room. I think we were in it for 3 minutes, just enough time to change into our suits, before heading down to the waterpark.
Haley's favorite part of our hotel room was the mirrored closet with sliding doors. She would hide inside the closet and close the doors, getting some quiet time to herself. Haley also needed to check herself out in her swimsuit before heading down to the pool. Such a girl.
You can tell by the smiles that the boys are VERY excited to be at the waterpark. Tyler is in front and Jacob is behind.
Little miss Haley liked the zero-depth entry and would just walk in and out of the pool.
Big muscled man Tyler conquered the lillypad/monkey bars with gusto.
Water spouts and water canons were a big hit with all the kids.
Our family
Jacob showing off his toothless grin!
I took Haley down one of the "big kid" slides and she wasn't too sure about the whole thing.
Blue eyes is giving daddy the sad eyes after her slide experience.
2 comments:
OH MY GOSH! How FUN! You guys are the "BESTEST" parents!!! Looks like everyone had a great time!
Can I talk you into a trip "UP NORTH"?
Happy New Years Benes Family!
What fun! You can certainly tell the boys were having fun by the glow of excitement in their eyes.
And, Haley found just the right spot in the pool to get her feet wet.
What a great family get-away.
Happy New Years to all of you!
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