Spring Break: Hotel

It's Spring Break in WA State. The weather's been crappy and it sort of just creeped up on us. We didn't make any plans and I was fine with that until I started hearing of the destinations other people were going to visit: Mexico, Orlando, Disneyland. Ugh. I made a mental note to book a getaway for next year. In the meantime, we were stuck at home with a climate that more resembled Christmas Break than Spring. Yeah, we're so outta here next year!

Sometime last weekend J must have figured out that we were doing nada and asked D if we could go to a hotel for Spring break. We asked which one? he said the one downtown where we stayed when we moved would be fine. Anything but home, I guess.

On Thursday we did just that. Unfortunately for J we didn't travel the five miles to the Phoenix Inn, instead we went up north to Tulalip Resort & Casino. Because we're stellar parents like that and take our kids to a casino for entertainment ☺

The kids love hotels. They went swimming, had dinner, and that's pretty much about it other than hang out in the lovely room.

He watched a movie on the comfy bed:

She watched herself in the mirror of the fabulous vanity:

The next day was sunny and perfect. We went to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival:

There were fields of flowers in all different colors: Nothing like a little taste of spring on Spring break!

It was beautiful, and all of the tulips hadn't even bloomed yet.

Upon getting home that night, I told the kids they needed to say Thank You to daddy for taking the time off to take us on this little adventure. J said we needed to say thank you to him because he's the one that thought of it.

He does have a point there. Thank You, J! It was just the getaway the family needed.

SilverWould

SilverWould be in the State of Idaho; its patrons in a State of confusion bordering on frustration.

SilverWould have several great roller coasters. With long lines and one operating car.

SilverWould and does call itself a theme park. SilverWould be better serving its visitors if they informed them that the theme of their park is "Inefficiency."

SilverWould have a wait of almost 45 minutes to get what one would normally call "fast food."

SilverWould employ a kid that made a mistake at said fast food joint giving a certain customer too much food and a side of redemption for the long wait.

SilverWould also employ filthy Garfield as its mascot; a great choice given the lazy nature

of both the cat and the establishment.

On a positive note,

SilverWould have a great water park...

at which SilverWould make you wait in yet another long line to pay $5 for a locker when similar places charge about half that much for a self-serve deal.

I'm thinking that SilverWould be doing Garfield a big favor if it made the ammenities, along with a bar of soap, part of his benefits package. Just a thought.

Other than all of that, SilverWould make some cute little kids pretty happy.

And wet!




But unless we just happen to be driving through Northern Idaho without air conditioning
on a very, very hot day,
SilverWon't be seeing the Koongs again any time soon.