Long Weekend

The kids had Friday, Monday, and Tuesday off school.  (And today ended up being cancelled because of the weather--snow and high winds.)  So by Monday, when our original plans were cancelled, we called up PC's brother's fam and asked if we could come up and hang out.  They were excited about the prospect, so we packed up clothes, sleeping bags, and air mattresses and headed up to their house. It's a bit over a two-hour drive, but not bad at all.  They had pizza waiting for us and we had fun hanging out. We tried to figure out what to do on Tuesday and finally decided to just stay at their house and play games.  We had a blast!  First we played Disney Scene It, then the dads took the kids to the park while we fixed lunch.

Bucko had been asking for more chocolate cake all morning, so finally his aunt convinced us that he should have at least a small piece.  Her daughter had to have one as well. Can you see the joy on her face? And then Bucko is super exasperated because "Ah man, a small piece!"  It was so funny!After lunch, we had set up a scavenger hunt around the house. The clues led them all over and ended up finding the "treasure" in the kitchen. (They each got a little package of Hershey Kisses.)

After the scavenger hunt, we split into boys and girls teams and did a photo scavenger hunt.

 Here we had to find things that started with H-U-N-T.  The girls did "house," "under" the table, "nails," and "toes taped together."  The boys did "horse," "umbrella," "Nintendo DS," and "temple." 

We also had to spell out a word. The girls spelled "hit" and the boys "hi."  We had to take a picture of the oldest person on our team on a kiddie toy, and everyone on the team in the tub.  Some of the boys pictures didn't turn out so great, but these capture the fun and essense of it all.  It was fun. And we left soon after so we could get back home.  It was a fun time. I'm so glad we live near family and can get together on these days off!