Our Little Getaway

Since Jordan's job follows the school district's schedule, he had all last week off.. paid!

We've been busy refinishing our kitchen (pictures to follow soon!). But we wanted to do something memorable and fun for the kids with his time off. We thought about going to Santa Fe, NM to meet some friends, but it didn't work out.

We knew we wanted to go on a little bit of a road trip starting Thursday afternoon and come home Saturday at some point. Well Thursday morning came around and we were still clueless. We're extremely blessed to know an incredible travel agent. So when Levi woke up at 6:30am I texted her and after she told me tons of fun things to do in Colorado, we settled on Colorado Springs and by 2pm we were on the road. Colorado Springs is about an hour and a half from where we live, so by the time we got there the kids had taken a pretty good nap.

We took them swimming in the hotel swimming pool, had dinner at Chipotle, drove around the area a little bit and then ate Oreo Klondike bars back at the hotel room. They were excited to be sleeping in a hotel so it took them a little bit to fall asleep.

The next morning we ate breakfast at the hotel. They had a great breakfast buffet! We took the kids to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo as soon as they opened. I was expecting it to be busy because it's Spring Break, but when we got there there weren't very many people there... of course we got there 15 minutes after it opened. (Side Note: when I was about 9 years old I spent the night at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo with my Girl Scout troop!) We had such a great time there! Our favorite part was definitely feeding the giraffes!

As we were leaving the zoo it really started to get busy with people. If the main parking lot is full it can take up to an hour of sitting in your car in a huge line, just to park. So I was really glad we got there when we did.

For lunch we went to a really cool restaurant. It's actually a plane from WWII that you can eat inside. The kids were able to play in the cockpit and explore the rest of the plane. It's extremely kid friendly and the food was great. I highly recommend The Airplane Restaurant to anyone going to Colo. Springs.

That night we took the kids to their first sushi restaurant. I've only had sushi once before when I was about 12, so I was a little nervous to have it again. It was good though and a fun experience. Jayden ate all of his food, but Gabri wasn't too sure about it all.

Saturday morning we checked out of the hotel and went to Garden Of The Gods. We took the kids almost two years ago and they just rode in the stroller most of the time. This time Jayden walked and Gabri sat in the stroller while Levi rode on Jordan's back. We hiked around for over an hour and half. Jayden LOVED climbing on all the rocks. I on the other hand was a little freaked out by the whole idea. My boy is quite adventurous already!

Our timing was perfect with all the things we wanted to do. The kids enjoyed themselves and so did we. I realized by the end of our trip that I was actually relaxing and enjoying myself. Sometimes with young kids it's easy to get stressed out and not enjoy yourself even on vacation.