Cincinnati Mini-Trip

Drew had some hotel points that were expiring soon, so we decided to use them up and take a mini-vacation down to Cincinnati.  It was so much fun!  It's such a special treat for the kids to stay at a hotel since we obviously don't do that very often.  We were able to get a suite with a kitchenette, so we brought some food, along with our popcorn popper. 

View of the "living room" from the door.

Kitchen was to the left of the door.

View of the bathroom from the bedroom area.

Two queen beds - the first night the boys slept in one, while Jenna and Mommy slept in the other.  However, Saturday night the kids said they wanted to sleep in the same bed together, so we let them.  They did great and neither one fell off the bed.

Grant was watching "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" with me Saturday morning while I was nursing Hannah.  Boy have shows changed since then!  I remember watching that show with my Dad when I was a kid.

We brought our portable DVD player and some DVDs and hooked it up to the TV, so the kids could watch a movie in bed.  Of course if we're watching a movie, popcorn is always involved as well!

The boys

The girls (minus Hannah who was already asleep for the night)

We hit up the hotel pool quite a bit that weekend! 

Daddy's are so much fun!  Grant wanted me to do that to him and I could barely throw him up out of the water.  :)

Hannah  hanging out on the pool chair with Mommy.

She did get in the water and seemed to enjoy it some.  She's still a little small for the floatie, so we ended up just holding her instead.

Why, yes, we did bring her swing to the hotel with us.  I'm sure people thought we were moving in there.  We probably did look silly, but that swing is a LIFESAVER!

We went to a children's museum on Saturday.

There was a play area that looked like a big tree house.  Here Jenna's sliding down the slide.

There was this maze to climb through with the smallest of spaces.  Somehow Jenna magically squeezed herself through it all the way to the bottom.

Grant crawling through the netted tunnel.

Bangin' on some drums!  He kept squatting down with his legs spread apart while he banged on them.  It was hilarious!

Jenna and Grant cooked us up some food in their little cafe. 

Then we had to do some grocery shopping.

Jenna pretended to be a veterinarian and took care of some of the animals there.

There was a dance party, so Jenna joined in.

Completely worn out from our fun and busy day!

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Drew showed us this fun trick...and the kids loved it!

More swimming!

We went to a splash park on Sunday before heading home.  The kids actually enjoyed the playground more than the splash park.  Of course, the splash park was pretty UNDERwhelming.  We weren't too impressed, but the kids still had fun.

There was a creek there too, so we stopped to explore.