Spring Break???

Yes it's Spring Break for our kids this week (starting 4/13) and we decided to join Rich in Long Island NY while he works. It's been an interesting trip...

We actually left on Thursday evening to head down to Lancaster PA to spend Fri-Sun with Rich's parents for Easter. Traffic was HORRIBLE - getting through "construction" in PA was a slow crawl. It took us about 2 extra hours to get there. There was no real construction going on - just a bunch of cones and merges in anticipation of construction. PA is not known for their efficient and timely manner for construction projects.

Friday we visited some of the fun spots that we enjoyed in PA - the pretzel shop, the Children's museum "Hands on House" and a petting zoo.

Saturday was a low key day - we colored Easter eggs, graded papers with Annie (her High School German students could use to study more), the boys built a "Syracuse Orange" birdhouse with Papa, we had our Easter dinner, and played the Telephone game.

Sunday was Easter - easy morning, afternoon church, and then a drive to Long Island (with more traffic - this time just congestion).

Leaving PA the boys both ended up sick with either a cold/flu or allergies. There's a lot of nasty stuff coming out of their nose! My guess it whatever it is, it was triggered by the blossoms in PA - beautiful, but deadly.

Monday we had Mc'Ds for lunch, went to Barnes n' Noble for books, food shopping for the week, and a stay at home movie night.

Yesterday we went to Chuck E Cheese for some fun and pizza. I then went to IKEA for my fun. It was a quick run through IKEA since the boys didn't feel that same sense of fun. I think I told them probably 100 times to stop it, knock it off, don't touch that, leave him alone, get over here.... so it was a quick trip, no time for browsing. We finished the day off with a movie. We went to see Monsters vs. Aliens in 3D. It was really funny. I had some serious sticker shock when I bought the tickets. $52 dollars for 2 Adults and 2 kids. Long Island is expensive, and when you add the 3D extras... ugh!

Today it's gloomy and cold rain. I'm kind of tired lugging the kids around, so we'll be doing something simple today.

We were going to try to go into the city on Friday, however I totally forgot about Rich's knee not being completely up to snuff - and walking NYC is not an easy thing to do. So we're going to just head home and enjoy our weekend at home.

I think next week when the kids are back in school I'll take MY spring break!