Spring Break, Week 1

Spring break started last week.  We LOVE spring break! And I love that our school district gives two weeks for spring break!  We started it off with watching Rise of the Guardians for our movie night on Friday night.  On Monday, we went roller skating at Skate City.  The kids had coupons for free admission during the break and they all had their roller blades, so it was completely free.  We met up with some friends, so that was nice as well.  Bucko was super lucky and one of the workers gave him some light up glasses at the beginning.  They had these cool "walkers" for little kids made out of PVC pipes with wheels.  I rented one for Goofy and he would fly around the rink. Tink held Minnie's hand and they were fine. Bucko did great as well. I just stayed on the side with Baby Girl.  And that little girl slept all day! I had a doctor's appointment that morning and got her to sleep as I was leaving at 9:30.  She slept until 3:30 pm that day! I couldn't believe it!  We stopped at the music store afterwards to fix a mix-up with Bucko's violin and then I treated the kids to slushees at Sonic, since it was still happy hour (half-price drinks).  Bucko yelled, "Best day of my life!" on the way home. It was a good day.

On Tuesday, PC didn't have to work until later in the day, so we went down to the mall. I got a haircut while PC took the kids to go do GlowGolf (mini golf with blacklights).  I had bought a Groupon for 5 people a while ago and it was going to expire soon, so we needed to use it.  We stopped at Sonic for some lunch that day and took it over to Nana's house to eat.  We took Nana and Johnny back to our house for an egg hunt.  There was still snow outside, so we decided to hide them inside.  We still had lots of fun with it!

On Wednesday, we did some grocery shopping to get ready for our trip the following week.  PC decided to take a half day on Thursday, so we all were able to go to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo one more time before our membership ran out.  (We decided not to renew it for now. Maybe another year we will do it again, but we are "zoo-ed" out for the time being.)  We didn't get there until right after lunchtime, so of course the parking lot was full.  We had to park at the high school and take the shuttle to the zoo. This wouldn't have been too bad, but the bus was packed, so we were standing and then the traffic by the zoo was barely moving.  So a five minute drive ended up taking about 45 minutes.  We had fun when we got there though.  They finally had the elephants out! (They had been working on a new area for them, so they hadn't been out for the past year.)  I let PC take the kids on the Skyride while I fed Baby Girl.  Tink and Minnie spent some of their money on stuffed animals in the gift shop before we left.  Tink got a snow owl, which she named Hedwig, of course, and Minnie got a pink zebra, which she named Pinky.

On Friday, we packed up the van and drove down to Pagosa Springs for our holiday!