Vacation!

Oh how I love the sound of that word! Our vactions for the last 2 almost 3 years have been visiting our family and friends ( which is awesome! I'm not complaining!!). This time were taking a family trip ;) just Daddy, Mommy and the babies (one day my son is going to tell me to stop categorizing him in the baby section with Essie).

Our original plan had been Chicago. Its a 4 1/2 hr drive and we could go see the Jelly Belly factory on the way, this was the main reason I wanted to go there. But then I found out that the J.B. factory isn't really a factory. Its more of the distribution center and they give a little tour with videos from the actual factory. Interesting for me? sure, interesting for my kids? Not really. I started searching up more to do in Chicago and was really coming up blank. It seemed like a long trip that was going to cost more but not be worth more then a trip to maybe... Minneapolis / St. Pual would be?

So with a new vacation site in mind, I searched the web and immediately came up with some fun ideas. Mall of America of course is always a hit spot (and it takes hours). We booked a room on Hotwire.com. I have a love/hate relationship with that website, once we got a hotel that we had never wanted to return to but this time we got lucky and from the website it looks like a great place :) (I'll let you all know next week if my opinion stays...)So next week Tuesday were off for our little vacation.

4th of July weekend,enjoy the fireworks!
-Mrs. Mommy