Please hold
I'm on vacation again. Hubby is on Vancouver Island on business, and the kids and I are tagging along. Right now I'm sitting on his laptop in the dark in a hotel room in Nanaimo, BC while the kids are trying to sleep and Hub's out at the gym. I think Devon is out cold, but Camryn isn't giving up so easily.
Hubby is working all day every day, so we've been left to find things to do within walking distance since he has the car. Today we watched Treehouse (which is exciting to the kids because we don't have cable at home) at the hotel, then went across the street to the mall. We hit paydirt there because right in the mall there is a Canadian Military Museum, and we spent a good hour looking around in there, and still didn't even see everything.
They had tons of stuff, and since I've recently realized I have a deep interest in military/war history, I found it all very fascinating. I was explaining to Devon about what these people had to do for us to be able to have a free country, and I got a lump in my throat thinking of it all. Reading all the plaques on the wall, one of a young signalman who was lost aboard a huge military ship, the Hermes, really hit home for me. He was very young, but was awarded several medals. I also read an amazing story about the elderly veteran you see pictured on the Canadian ten-dollar bill. I saw the two old veterans who were minding the place in a different light when I left than when I came in. Of course they commented on how cute they thought Camryn was, playing peek-a-boo with them behind some of the artifacts. Figures.
We wandered around the mall for a while then came back to the hotel and had some lunch. The kids enjoyed more Treehouse while Mommy crashed and had a nap. Next thing I knew Devon was shaking me awake and said, "Can we go out now? TV is boring." So I got up and we walked over to the lake near the hotel.
Long Lake is literally a five-minute walk, especially since we found a path that comes off the sidewalk from the hotel. We found a little clearing right on the water and spent part of the afternoon playing there. The water was really clear and the kids had fun playing while I sat on the beach towels and painted my toenails (they were much overdue for a new shade!!)
We came back to the hotel and Daddy was back - and he wasn't hungry for dinner so we went out to Kelsey's for the second night in a row (at the kids' request, and I was too hungry to keep searching for somewhere else). I've decided that while last night's dinner was good, (The "Trio" - half a wrap with a soup and salad) their food overall sucks (tonight's was "balsamic chicken cavatappi - waaaay too sweet, although I liked the whole wheat pasta.) Then back to the hotel for a game of Junior Scrabble and then kids to bed.
Tomorrow we are going to take the bus downtown and check out the Old City Quarter, to check out the shops. There's a store called Lobelia's Lair that I want to check out, and possibly get my palm read, then if there's time when we get back we'll go to the lake again, this time to the part that has a better beach.
We're having a pretty good time so far. Devon keeps telling me that the hotel is "way better than our house." I have to agree, when you have housekeeping coming in everyday to clean up your slovenly ass!
I might be online again during the rest of our trip, but then again, maybe not. So I hope all the links I've provided in this post will interest you in the meantime!
Hubby is working all day every day, so we've been left to find things to do within walking distance since he has the car. Today we watched Treehouse (which is exciting to the kids because we don't have cable at home) at the hotel, then went across the street to the mall. We hit paydirt there because right in the mall there is a Canadian Military Museum, and we spent a good hour looking around in there, and still didn't even see everything.
They had tons of stuff, and since I've recently realized I have a deep interest in military/war history, I found it all very fascinating. I was explaining to Devon about what these people had to do for us to be able to have a free country, and I got a lump in my throat thinking of it all. Reading all the plaques on the wall, one of a young signalman who was lost aboard a huge military ship, the Hermes, really hit home for me. He was very young, but was awarded several medals. I also read an amazing story about the elderly veteran you see pictured on the Canadian ten-dollar bill. I saw the two old veterans who were minding the place in a different light when I left than when I came in. Of course they commented on how cute they thought Camryn was, playing peek-a-boo with them behind some of the artifacts. Figures.
We wandered around the mall for a while then came back to the hotel and had some lunch. The kids enjoyed more Treehouse while Mommy crashed and had a nap. Next thing I knew Devon was shaking me awake and said, "Can we go out now? TV is boring." So I got up and we walked over to the lake near the hotel.
Long Lake is literally a five-minute walk, especially since we found a path that comes off the sidewalk from the hotel. We found a little clearing right on the water and spent part of the afternoon playing there. The water was really clear and the kids had fun playing while I sat on the beach towels and painted my toenails (they were much overdue for a new shade!!)
We came back to the hotel and Daddy was back - and he wasn't hungry for dinner so we went out to Kelsey's for the second night in a row (at the kids' request, and I was too hungry to keep searching for somewhere else). I've decided that while last night's dinner was good, (The "Trio" - half a wrap with a soup and salad) their food overall sucks (tonight's was "balsamic chicken cavatappi - waaaay too sweet, although I liked the whole wheat pasta.) Then back to the hotel for a game of Junior Scrabble and then kids to bed.
Tomorrow we are going to take the bus downtown and check out the Old City Quarter, to check out the shops. There's a store called Lobelia's Lair that I want to check out, and possibly get my palm read, then if there's time when we get back we'll go to the lake again, this time to the part that has a better beach.
We're having a pretty good time so far. Devon keeps telling me that the hotel is "way better than our house." I have to agree, when you have housekeeping coming in everyday to clean up your slovenly ass!
I might be online again during the rest of our trip, but then again, maybe not. So I hope all the links I've provided in this post will interest you in the meantime!
