November is a wonderful month if you work for the state of Michigan. Only one week in the entire month do you have to work a five day week! Thanks to Election Day, Veterans Day, and Thanksgiving, Jonathan gets to be home a lot more! This past week he went ahead and took off Friday so he had an extra long weekend. We decided to head to Frankenmuth and stay in a hotel overnight with the kiddos. We had such a great time! We hit the Birch Run Outlet Stores, which if you have never been, are crazy cool. Tons of awesome outlet stores!! Though next time I will be going without my children, thank you very much. lol We stayed at the Bavarian Inn which, as you can see, is so beautiful!
We're finding that when you take two small children to a hotel, you have to be very resourceful and creative. For example, Addison does best sleeping when she can't see that we are still awake and having fun without her. That can be hard to do when you are in one basic room. My husband, however, is never without ideas and came up with this solution:
Transform the "hallway" into Addie's own personal bedroom! Yes, that is the comforter from Luke's bed that we managed to hang up. :)
Eating was a little tricky too but we just brought along the booster seat and fixed them up a nice little eating area.
Good morning Miss Addie!!
We let Luke watch a movie in bed...
He didn't last long, though! :)
This was our view from our room. We had a nice secluded patio on the ground floor.
And of course the kids loved swimming! This place had like four pools and a few hot tubs too!
Everything had a German feel to it (go figure!) and I loved the gazebo this hot tub was in!
There were also tons of games where you could win tickets and get prizes (just like at Chuck E. Cheese's!) so Luke was in heaven.
We made a stop at Bronner's which was overwhelming but fun. Now is not the time of year to go, however, because there were soooo many people!!!
All in all it was a great trip. Veteran's Day also happened to be a very special day for Jonathan and I. We were able to celebrate 10 years of being together. I will never forget that day, November 11, 2000, when Jonathan asked me to be his girlfriend and we started a journey that has brought us so much happiness!! :)
November is a wonderful month if you work for the state of Michigan. Only one week in the entire month do you have to work a five day week! Thanks to Election Day, Veterans Day, and Thanksgiving, Jonathan gets to be home a lot more! This past week he went ahead and took off Friday so he had an extra long weekend. We decided to head to Frankenmuth and stay in a hotel overnight with the kiddos. We had such a great time! We hit the Birch Run Outlet Stores, which if you have never been, are crazy cool. Tons of awesome outlet stores!! Though next time I will be going without my children, thank you very much. lol We stayed at the Bavarian Inn which, as you can see, is so beautiful!
We're finding that when you take two small children to a hotel, you have to be very resourceful and creative. For example, Addison does best sleeping when she can't see that we are still awake and having fun without her. That can be hard to do when you are in one basic room. My husband, however, is never without ideas and came up with this solution:
Transform the "hallway" into Addie's own personal bedroom! Yes, that is the comforter from Luke's bed that we managed to hang up. :)
Eating was a little tricky too but we just brought along the booster seat and fixed them up a nice little eating area.
Good morning Miss Addie!!
We let Luke watch a movie in bed...
He didn't last long, though! :)
This was our view from our room. We had a nice secluded patio on the ground floor.
And of course the kids loved swimming! This place had like four pools and a few hot tubs too!
Everything had a German feel to it (go figure!) and I loved the gazebo this hot tub was in!
There were also tons of games where you could win tickets and get prizes (just like at Chuck E. Cheese's!) so Luke was in heaven.
We made a stop at Bronner's which was overwhelming but fun. Now is not the time of year to go, however, because there were soooo many people!!!
All in all it was a great trip. Veteran's Day also happened to be a very special day for Jonathan and I. We were able to celebrate 10 years of being together. I will never forget that day, November 11, 2000, when Jonathan asked me to be his girlfriend and we started a journey that has brought us so much happiness!! :)
