Spring Break

Spring Break has come and gone.  The kids were good but with such crappy weather this Spring it was hard to come up with things to keep us entertained.

Mitch took Monday and Tuesday off and got to hang out with us.  In between rain showers we went on a family bike ride.  This is going to be a challenging year of riding with Lucy wanting to ride her own (it is a bit of a slow ride).   A few of the kids need new bikes before summer arrives.  Natalie looks like a giant on her little bike.

We also took the family shopping at WinCo. (I mean what memories of Spring Break!)  The kids find that place fascinating.  Mitch calls it "A WinCo experience"  and if you have ever gone to the WinCo in Kent, WA then you know what I am talking about. It is a shopping trip and life lessons all rolled into one.  On the way there we passed this really cool rock climbing wall park in Kent.  We had some fun before it started to rain.

  Tuesday we spent some time in downtown Seattle on the Water Front.

The kids are really big into buying souvenirs with their allowance lately.  Sometimes I have to stop and ask them, "Is this something that we really want to spend money on remembering?"

My zoo pass is expiring at the end of the month so we spent a day at Woodland Park Zoo.  The weather couldn't decide what it wanted to do...rain, wind, sun, cold...we had it all.  We had a really fun time looking at the animals.  They have a baby gorilla that was just darling and we saw a kangaroo with a baby in its pouch.  That was probably the highlight of the trip, that and me not getting lost driving there and home.

Friday afternoon we went to see Beauty and the Beast.  Popcorn and lemonade for lunch!

By the time school started again, I needed a vacation from my kid's vacation!