We left Wednesday evening and arrived around 8pm. We walked around the hotel and checked everything out and then "tried" to get the kids to bed. Reid is just like Hayden was as a baby. A "sleep nazi" in hotels! He stayed wide awake until Paul went to Walmart and bought Benedryl to knock him out around 11pm.
Hayden kills me, she read the Holy Bible and set up everything on her nightstand. She LOVES hotels.
Don't let this cute face fool you!
The next morning we went swimming at the massive in door pool. Reid had fun going down the kiddo slides and Hayden tried out a few of the big slides with dad!
After lunch at Chic-fil-a we knew that Reid needed a nap, so Paul went back to the hotel and did some work while Reid napped and I took Hayden to the American Girl Doll Store for her first time. She was over the moon excited. She is fun to do activities like this with because she is so over the top in expressing her excitement. She has been saving up money to buy something here for quite some time. She bought a dog for her American Girl Doll Rachel and then we accessorized it a bit. Her dogs name is Peachy pup. She also got her dolls hair done at the salon! I think we walked every inch of that store two times over.
When Reid woke up dad took him to Cabella's to look around and we met them there and went out for pizza. We then headed back, got in costumes and went trick-or-treating at the hotel. They were really adorable in their costumes and a crew asked if they could film and photograph them for promotional materials. They were filming and taking pictures of Hayden in this first picture.
We also listened to story time that night and then headed to bed. Reid went to bed better but woke up in the middle of the night and talked for an hour in a half! The next morning we went to Science City which was AMAZING. It's located in an old train station and it has really fun exhibits. We spent all morning exploring it. Reid loved the helicopter and called it an "a-pee" or "airplane"
They both loved building bikes together
And of course Reid gravitated to anything that had a ball with it. He loved this, the air would blow the ball straight up and then he'd swat it away!
For lunch we went to Fritz's and the kids both had a fun time. There are trains running along the ceiling delivering everyone's food. You call your order in on a phone like the Training Table and then a train delivers it. Reid said, "choo-choo" and "where'd go" the entire time we were there.
Fritz's was located in a mall and they also had a giant crayola store there, here is the color wheel with every crayon color!
That afternoon we traveled to see some church history sites. We went to Independence Visitors center (where Reid slept in the car) and also so the RLDS Temple and then headed to Liberty Jail. I had been to these places back in 2006 but it was Paul's first time. Hayden was very reverent and quite in both places. Reid, not so much!
We got some really yummy Mexican Food in Liberty and then headed back to the hotel for a late night swim. We really packed it in the second day!
The next morning we drove to the Deanna Rose Farmstead and met our friends from Atlanta that now live in Kansas City. We had a great morning with the Sugdens! We bottle fed goats, they were crazy aggressive, they'd push each other out of the way to get a bottle and jump on you until you gave them the bottle!
Hayden got a pony ride for the first time!
Both Reid and Hayden fished for the first time. They didn't catch anything, but Paul was bound and determined. I took the kids to the next activity while Paul stayed behind until he caught something. It ended up breaking the pole so he never got it out of the water!
Hayden with her friends Hannah and Adam Sugden
We then headed to lunch at Oklahoma Joes which is a famous barbecue restaurant there and it did not disappoint! So yummy! Neither Paul and I had dinner we were still so full. We then drove back home. It was a nice little vacation before the baby comes and we go into survival mode for a bit!
