Cori has been working his very attractive tukus off these last few months. He has 3-4 hours that he puts in on Saturdays pretty regularly. And he's had a very time consuming project this last month. Tuesdays, he has the fewest scheduled meetings. We decided to take advantage of that this week and he took yesterday off. We talked about a lot of different plans for our day. We wanted to stay overnight somewhere like Chicago, or in Madison or the Dells in Wisconsin. But then we remembered that we don't have spare cash to throw at such an outing. So we packed a pick-nick lunch and headed to Rockford for the day. We went to the Rockford Discovery Museum in the morning. The kids loved it more than I thought they would. We ate our pick-nick in the museum's little eating area because it was raining outside. Then Cori hung out in the car with his blackberry (he can never really take the day off after all) and a sleeping Grant while I took Grace to see the animals inside a Petco. Free entertainment for her. Then we hung out at Marshalls for a little while. Very cheap entertainment for me. After Grant woke up from his nap, Cori picked me and Gracie up and we headed to Sam's Club. We love warehouse shopping. Once we had filled our cart with food storage restocks, hundreds of diapers and an upside down patio garden we had a decision to make. Our original plan was to end the day with a finale dinner at Red Lobster. But we decided to put a few more things in our cart and food court it for dinner instead. We got home and unloaded just around PJ time. And, minus our Sam's Club purchases, we enjoyed a lovely family holiday for under $45.
These are some pictures from the museum.
3 comments:
I used to love those kind of holiday/vacations! We used to picnic everywhere! Sometimes even in the car because of the rain. So glad that you had such a fun day! I know what you mean about not being quite, completely off on a day off--Nate (oldest son) is the same way. He came to MI and they were still calling him!
It's always nice to get out and do something a little different from your everyday routine!
Oh the "Crack"berry, Don't you just want to throw those things against the wall!!! Glad you could have a nice family day.
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