Adventures with Grandma and Grandpa

Greg won a free night at the Residence Inn in Richmond so instead of a romantic get-a-way 2 miles from our house, we chose to take our Richmond grandkids (Denotn's) on an adventure...... a pizza, swimming and movie party at the hotel overnight with the folks. You can tell by our age, what our priorities are now. You can't believe how much stuff we brought for 1 night. They all had their own suitcases and we had 3-4 between us with computers towels, camera's, pop, and so forth. It took a luggage cart to get it all in. But the kids had a blast riding the cart up and down the elevator. We made our first mistake when we got in the elevator to go to the pool and Rocky ( the 2 year old) pushed the emergency bell button before Greg could grab him. The other kids got to push buttons so he wanted to also. We couldn't get it to stop or work so we had to walk down 3 flights of stairs to go to the front desk to tell them and ask forgiveness. They were really nice about it.

Before the pool, we had pizza and pop in our room. The kids thought that was great. The got a candy treat for dessert from their dad ( who had been out of town all week and brought it to them as a surprise).

The loved the pool.....especially the hot tub. It was much warmer than the heated ppol. But they loved grandpa throwing them up in the air and doing cannon balls from the side. Rocky especially loved the hot tub...jumping in and out to us. Scared me to death that he was going to hit his chin or something.....he has no fear.

After swimming we got in our pj's and watched a movie and a half on grandpa's computer...... 102 Dalmations and Half of Transformers. We popped popcorn and had sprite all night. They stayed up way too late and their parents are going to love us today. Grandpa told them 2 fun stories and they were asleep the minute we turned off the light. Rocky even stayed in his pack and play all night..Grandpa and I stayed up and watched a movie in the other room so we are very tired today.

We woke up early and of course watched cartoons while we got ready. Then we went down the the exciting hotel breakfast. The kids had eggs, sausage, potatoes, biscuits, donuts, fruit loops( 3 bowls each) and orange juice. I couldn't believe how much they could eat. They couldn't believe the sky was the limit. That is the fun of going somewhere with your grandparents. The hotel waitress was so nice and helpful. She thought thy were so cute ( and we were such nice grandparents) she kept bringing us things.

We loaded up and the kids got to ride the cart down to go home. They had to be hone to go to the primary activity today.
Rocky said " I not going home..nope.... I go to grandma and grandpa's house" I convinced him he could go to the primary activity too.

We did all this before 9 am and took them home by 9:30am. We had a great time and they seemed to also. Fischer asked when we are going to get to do it again. I said when we get another free hotel. It was a memory we hope they will remember.
A great adventure with Grandma and Grandpa.