A whole lot of WILDERNESS!

We had a great time at our hotel these past few days, but before I delve into how much fun we had, I thought I’d catch up on the few days before that.

On Thursday night of last week I took the free movie theater ticket we have had sitting at home since the beginning of the school year and used it on the movie Remember Me. Technically, it was Ayden’s ticket, but he won’t know the difference because he probably doesn’t even remember that we had it. And… I really wanted to see the movie Remember Me (despite the not so good reviews it was good, but mostly for the fact that Robert Pattinson was in it and personally I think he’s pretty easy on the eyes). I get to the movie theater and since it was a 5pm showing, I thought I might get the whole theater to myself and it started out that way. I picked the perfect seat and then of course some more people came into the theater and where did they sit… the row right in front of me! I couldn’t believe it… a whole theater empty and you need to sit in the row right in front of me! Thankfully they didn’t sit in the seats directly in front of me, but off to the side a little bit.

On the whole I thought that the movie was pretty good. I still think that Rob’s acting is a little influent at times, or awkward, but maybe that is what the script calls for. The ending was definitely a surprise! I was pretty pissed at the ending, but only because it made me leave the moving with tears streaming down my face. Damn writers, hate that they know how to play on human emotions like that! Just once I want a movie to end happily where I am smiling and not crying, lol!

Speaking of movies (this skips ahead over our trip to yesterday afternoon), I got the New Moon DVD that just came out, although wasn’t one of the people who needed to get it at the midnight release of it, and watched it last night. Of course I’d seen it already, but I could watch it over and over. I can’t wait until Eclipse comes out! Thankfully it is this summer and not next fall! And then I found out that they haven’t even started filming for Breaking Dawn yet and won’t until this fall and there is the possibility that it could be broken into two parts/movies! UGH! I’d definitely hate that, but also know that if they did that that they could put a lot more of the book into it since the last book is the longest. So that means no Breaking Dawn in theaters until the summer of 2011. Bummer! Oh well though! Just means I’ll probably reread the book another five times until then, lol! I’m not a Twilight fanatic, but I’m definitely a Twilight fan! Give me those books any day! Definitely good reads!

Anyways, Friday was any other normal day… on campus and then home for the night. We left Saturday morning to go ‘home’. We were going to watch the elementary school play of Willie Wanka! (Which incidentally I am watching the movie on the Disney channel as we speak since I haven’t seen the one with Johnny Depp yet). For being an elementary school play I thought that it was pretty good. One of my cousins even had a solo and I thought that she did a great job!

After that play we went to my mom’s house for a quick visit and to let her see how Ayden could ride a two wheeler. He did great still! And then it was back to Jay’s parent’s house for a nap. Well Ayden anyways because he was SO crabby at my mom’s house and wasn’t listening at ALL! He definitely needed it and fell asleep for about an hour. I was surprised because I didn’t think that he would nap at all, but he woke up in a much better mood. While he was resting, Jay and I practiced our Wii skills because we were heading to a Wii tournament at his aunt’s house that night. Unfortunately, I didn’t end up winning the Wii tournament, not by a long shot! But it was still super fun!

Jay’s aunt had to the new Wii fit plus that has some new games compared to the first Wii fit games out there. Anyways, I hadn’t seen any of these games yet and one of them was a game where you were a bird flying to a boat and had to flap your arms to get the birds wings to flap. So his aunt showed us how it was done and let me tell you, I have not laughed that hard in FOREVER! It was SO funny! Ah, what a night! Lots of fun! And Ayden had a great time playing with Quinn (Jay’s younger cousin) who is always in such a great mood! What a cute little guy! Love ‘em!

It was a late night Saturday and an early morning Sunday. We left midmorning for the Dells and Ayden stayed awake for most of the ride. I was pretty surprised because normally he still falls asleep for the longer rides. It took us almost two hours to get there from Jay’s parent’s house, but by the time that we did it was SO worth it.

The hotel was ginormous! So much walking! But SO worth it as well! We checked in, but we weren’t able to get into our room right away so we checked out one of the water parks and the game room and the play area. We played a round of mini golf and by that time our room was ready. We hauled all of our gear into our room and changed into our swimsuits to check out the water parks! There were three indoor water parks at our hotel so lots to keep us busy!Ayden was brave enough to get ‘dumped’ on by the huge water fall! He was so excited when the bell went off signaling that it was going to dump! He would run right down there to get underneath it!Daddy and Ayden in the wave pool! Where are the waves?! We want waves!!!Ayden was attacked by the shark during mini golfing! He couldn’t get away fast enough! Here are those waves that we wanted so badly! Oh they were so much fun! My favorite part of all the water parks!

It was a full three days, but we had tons of fun! I’m still tired from all of the swimming and walking we did. Maybe by this weekend I will have caught up on my sleep because even though we were busy all day long swimming and playing, Ayden didn’t sleep any later than normal and sleeping in a different bed definitely didn’t leave me sleeping soundly all night long. I was so happy to come home and sleep in my own bed last night and sleep through the night, even if I did have to get up to my alarm clock this morning, ugh! On Spring Break even!

I need to get started on my studying for my Hearing Science exam and on my hearing science presentation of which I just found out our rough draft of our power point presentation is due on April 8th, a presentation that I haven’t even started yet. Although, I suppose that I still have two weeks yet, so not too bad, eh?! I have a few articles picked out that I want to use for it.

Lunch time!

CIAO! LOVE ME!