Staycation

This week Daddy and Jake took Thursday off of school so that we could embark on our Powers Family Staycation. On Wednesday afternoon, as soon as the boys came home, we loaded into the car and drove the ten minutes to our staycation destination.

The Hilton Homewood Suites.

The Homewood Suites building is a hotel with little mini condos instead of hotel rooms. The kids didn't know what we were doing, they only knew that swimming was involved.


In the lobby, checking into our room and checking out the bears.


Jumping on one of the two big beds! Our room also boasted a pull-out couch.


New water wings! Time for our swimming adventure!


All the babies and all their muscles, ready to go!


Riding the elevator, just one of the many adventures that made our staycation AWESOME!


Running down the hall to the pool. "Coming, Mom?"


Swimming time!

The kids impressed us with their swimming abilities. Both Jake and Jordan are very good at swimming around in life jackets but nobody had ever worn water wings before. Jake and Jordan took off for the deep end and paddled around immediately. Joshy spent most of his time on the stairs. He was very nervous about the whole situation.

The next morning Jake even swam around with nothing but a kick board. Daddy was beaming with pride at his bravery.


This face pretty much sums up Josh's opinion of swimming in the deep pool.


This face sums up Jordy's opinion of EVERYTHING!

The hotel provided us a complimentary dinner (and breakfast the next morning) as part of our package. So after dinner I took Josh down the road to Walmart to buy fixings for ice cream sundaes while Daddy took the other two kids swimming again.


When we returned from Walmart, Joshy didn't want to go back to the pool so we played in the room instead.


Ice cream sundaes were a huge hit!


We ordered up some cartoon network too.


Time to snuggle up for movie time! We rented G-Force.


Jaycob, enjoying a life of leisure. What a goober.


All tucked into bed!

The next morning we woke up, went to our complimentary breakfast (which was SO GOOD) and then we went to the pool again for a couple more hours before checking out. Josh had more fun in the pool the second day. At noon we checked out of our hotel and drove across the street for the lunch buffet at Golden Corral. I don't care what you think, that place is GOOD.

This little adventure was such a neat family outting that didn't cost too much money. We splurged on a room bigger than we needed but this whole staycation cost us less than $200 including all meals, entertainment and travel expenses! We spend more than that in one camping trip easily.