As usual, we are playing catch-up, but I have to tell you about the fun that we had for Thanksgiving Weekend.We didn't have school the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, so Mama and Daddy took the day off work and we headed to Duluth for a mini vacation.
The vacation started off pretty rocky. Ellen decided that she did NOT want to go to sleep. I'm not just talking about in the car on the way up there...she REFUSED to go to sleep even once we got to the hotel at 10:00. Mama and Daddy were not happy. She finally fell asleep around Midnight so it made for a very short night.
The next day we woke up and it was raining, but we decided to make the best of it and headed out anyways. We started the day off by checking out some running stores for Mama, and then we headed down to the canal to wait for a boat to come in. We stopped into Duluth Pack for Daddy to look around and found these cute little chairs, but Daddy said we didn't need them.
After doing some looking we headed to the museum by the bridge. There were lots of fun ship models to look at, but Ellen and I decided that watching the movie would be the most fun. Boy were we wrong! That lasted about 30 seconds and then we agreed to move on.
After playing some more Daddy checked the boat report only to find that it was running behind and we had to wait a couple more hours.
We headed over to an indoor play area with arcade games and bounce houses to kill some time. After another phone check the boat was now arriving early so we rushed back to the bridge and got there just in time! The horn was so loud, but it was really fun getting to wave at the worker. Ellen did not like standing under the bridge when it was coming down, she thought we were going to get squished.
The main reason we went to Duluth was to check out the Bentleyville Tour of lights!
There were Millions of lights! It was so beautiful. It was still a bit rainy, but it was warm so it was pretty nice.
We got to see Santa and tell him what we wanted for Christmas. He must be pretty forgetful because I have had to remind him that I want an Art Kit a LOT this year.
Our hotel, Pier B, was pretty great, we got to walk over to the lights, this was the view from our room! Ellen was pretty grumpy by 6:30 so we headed back to Mama could put her to bed. Daddy and I tried to roast Marshmallows but they didn't have the real fires going so we pretty much just burned them all before coming back inside. Mama was waiting for us and had our swimsuits ready so we could hit the pool one more time for the day.
Speaking of pools, this place was amazing, they had an outdoor hot tub that overlooked the bridge! It was pretty cold getting to the hot tub but once you were in it, it was great!
To make the pool even better, I found a mermaid friend with a matching tail!!!
Thursday morning we drove to Grandma Carolyn's, look forward to that update soon (I hope!)
Have a great week,
Linden
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