Feb Fam Fun

This last week we took some vacation time at a hotel about 1 1/2 hrs from our city. It would have been easier to stay in town, but it was really important to me to leave town! I'm so glad we did. We have talked about going to Malaysia or Singapore or Thailand on our next visa trip, but I think you need a vacation when it's the middle of the LONG winter! There were almost NO other guests there. Such a nice treat!

The pool was the big attraction! There were 3 indoor pools, 1 adult and 2 kid size. We spent every morning at the pool.


































Bowling was a big flop. It's harder than I remembered for a 5/6 year old to get a heavy ball down the lane to hit anything. But we were happy at the start.















Horsebackriding, on the other hand, was a big hit!



















No, I'm not trying to show off my egg head jacket, but that cheesy Ellie grin!! :)






































K especially enjoyed it, and GG, hoped you'd pass along to Ms. Linda, that she is now a "qi ma zhuan jia", that means "horse riding expert."















Here was the view out our window. A lovely, albiet frozen, winding river. Hey wait, where's the smoke stack? Where's the subway and the traffic?? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.











See the pagoda in the last picture? Here's a daddy pic with the girls from up there.



















There was also a 100 meter ski slope. I thought that meant the hill was 100 meters tall. No, it meant that from the top to the bottom of the slope was 100 meters. Here are the girls pretending they are skiing down, and a view of the unusual architecture of the building.



















To contrast the frigid temps, there was also a greenhoused tropical garden; it didn't feel like we were inside, but we were... it had lovely fountains, palm trees and berry bushes.






































All in all, a great vacation!