We opened and closed the mall today!  We hit the mall about 10am and did some shopping while we waited for Dana to arrive with Kaden, Caleb & Kaylynne to go to Mobius Children’s Museum, which by the way is an awesome one if you are ever in the Spokane area!

After a few hours at Mobius, the girls were beyond tired, but it was to late for them to nap, so I took them for a walk in hopes of them resting and both of them conked out in the stroller!  Apparently both were tired because they both were out cold!

While the girls napped we decided to go paint some pottery.  The boys were really excited to pick their pieces, that turned out to be quite a chore though.  In the end Aiden got a snake and Connor chose a trophy “vase”.  Julia & I each made a piggy bank for the girls.  I made Annika’s pink with brown polka-dots, and Julia made MacKenzie’s blue with brown flowers. 

Things were going real swell until right before we were done…the girls woke up, the boys were wandering around and Julia decided to do some “touch-up” on Aiden’s snake.  Needless to say, Aiden was LIVID because Julia had “ruined” his snake.  They tried to wipe it off, but it wouldn’t work so we finally gave the girls Aiden’s snake to paint and Aiden got to start over. 

While the girls and Aiden were painting, Connor decided to touch his up….it’s amazing what runny puff-paint can do to a “perfect” piece.  Yes, he was “ruined”.  Julia did a great job of “fixing" it.  But now Connor was angry and thought he could start over, because Aiden did.  Sorry Connor, it doesn’t always work that way, life sucks at times!  We ended up leaving having painted two adorable pigs, a near “perfect” Aiden snake, a very colorful (and BROWN due to paint mixing) and a “ruined” trophy/vase.  Ahhh memories!  

Connor’s trophy/vase before the disaster!

  Helping the girls paint their snake

     
Mine & Julia’s Piggies!

Julia had a taste tonight for The Melting Pot for dinner.  We met up with Ashli & Brooklynn, her mom Stacie and grandma Jackie.  I had never been there before so I didn’t quite know what to expect.  It was fun, it was just a long, late adventure.  Took over 2 hours to get through the 4 courses and with four little ones it was hard.  Everyone did really well until we were waiting for the chocolate dessert…which was yummy I might add!

The Gang minus yours truly

 
Dipping some bread in cheese dip!

Yum!

We didn’t get back to the hotel until 8:30 tonight, so when we did we all were done!  Time for the kids to go to bed, so Julia and I could just sit down and relax.  I finally called my mom and got a hold of her and talked for awhile, so that was nice.  We’ve played phone tag all week.  Yesterday I went as far as telling her to add me to her calendar at 3:30 when she said she was free…she forgot!  So it was time for us to catch-up!  I love my mommy! 

I believe the plan is to head back in the morning to Seattle!  Sad that this vacation is over already.  But at the same time, I think we’re all ready to get back to normalcy and routine!

Wow what an adventure my flight turned out to be…well not actually my flight, but the boarding the flight.  Last time I left you when I was talking about the Toys & Togs Totals in my last post (see below for my post earlier this evening), was I was getting ready to go get on my plane.  Yeah…well that was the beginning of the adventure.

I go back to the gate and realize my flight isn’t listed on the board, so I go up and ask the attendent and she reassured me that my flight was the next one to go out.  So I sat down and waited.  I still felt uneasy so an older couple came and sat down next to me and I asked them if they were going on the Horizon flight to Spokane, they were so I felt better.

A few minutes later a gentleman came up to the desk to ask “why was the flight cancelled?”.  Both myself and the couple jumped up and they lady said that “there was a possibility the flight would be cancelled and to go to talk to the Customer Service Desk”.  So off we went immediatly, we got to the desk and the people behind the desk asked why we thought it was cancelled, we said the lady behind the other desk (Cathy by the way) told us.  They told us that it wasn’t cancelled.  So bak we go to wait.

A few minutes later the attendant comes on the intercom to tell us “there is a problem with the plane and maintence was working on it.  Stay close because they hoped to board in 20-25minutes maybe sooner”.  Great, were gonna be late, but I can deal with that, I suppose.

I continue waiting, then I get a text from Alaska Airlines (actually 4 times for some reason) telling me the flight has been cancelled.  I chuckle, show my old couple friend and the man behind me, who I realized was the pilot.  It was a good 5 minutes before the attendent came back on again to tell us “yes the flight has been cancelled, and to go to the Customer Service Desk to rebook”, however, she records the message and then plays it.  I was sitting right in front of her desk so heard her make the recorded announcement before it played so I immedialty jumped up and got inline. 

I was one of the lucky ones, it didn’t sound like everyone on the 5:00 Horizon flight was going to make the new now 6:00 Alaska flight.  I was booked and then wandered down to the new gate.  Instead of the little communter plane, we were in a 737, and apparently those are faster because we arrived in 41 minutes opposed to the 59 minutes on the commuter plane.

So here we are now.  All the kids are asleep next  to Julia & I and we are playing on our laptops and watching Law and Order.  I probably should get some sleep because she said morning came at 4:30am this morning….so not gonna be fun!!

Good night all!!