It was clear that us girls don't get out enough to shop. We were giddy with the excitement of a day out, and it showed with the free-flowing credit cards. Oh. Wait. It was only ME that went a bit overboard with the shopping. You know, the only one that had to fit all of the purchases in her luggage and meet the 50-pound airline weight limit? Yeah, that girl. The REST of the girls managed to keep control of themselves with 4 or 5 purchases each. I won't tell you how many items I bought, but I WILL tell you that it's the first time in quite a while that I've shopped for myself. And also the first time in a while when I've spent more money shopping than Dale spent golfing!
While we shopped, the guys took the kids to a local playground. Macie fell asleep in the car on the way (shock!), and apparently slept for the entire hour and a half they were there. So Dale hung out in the car with her, while Ivie played with Brayden and Gavin. And us girls? Well, we had a wonderful day, and ended up back at the hotel around 4'ish. The kids were down for naps, but we ended up rounding them up fairly quickly to go up the road to the Family Fun Park, which had mini-golf and go-carts for the older kids/adults, and a $15 armband that allowed the little kids to ride the rides over and over, as many times as they wanted, for 2 hours. PERFECT.
Before leaving the hotel for this evening entertainment, we decided to try to get a family picture. The story about taking it is a pretty funny one itself...
After we rounded everyone up in the hotel lobby and found a friendly soul to bear with us and snap a few shots, I had to explain to her that I had my zoom lens on the camera, so she was going to have to step pretty far back to get us all in the frame. I wasn't joking. Turns out, she had to step through the automatic doors of the lobby entrance! So that was a pretty funny sight. And it got even more comedic when, on her first decent timing opportunity for the shot, the doors started closing on her. And you could see them in the sides of the frame on the picture she took. By this point, it was written all over her face that she was sorry that she'd agreed to the task. But it turns out that we ultimately, on the very next shot, got a great picture, with everyone looking at the camera except for Macie. Not too bad for 17 people...
For the Family Fun Park story, I'm going to let the pictures do the talking...
We wrapped up the evening with dinner at Fuddrucker's. Couldn't have found a more family-friendly place to take the clan and enjoy each other's company on the last night of our trip. Where did the weekend go?!?
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What program do you use to edit your pics? They are always great!
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