Mall of America - March 18 & 19, 2009

Mall of America - March 17, 2009

Mall of America - March 16th, 2009

Today Ed and I took most of the kids to Nickelodeon Universe. For a week or so, for every $150 spent at the mall, you earned ONE FREE ADMISSION!!! It ended on Sunday, the 15th and I think we earned like 13 FREE WRISTBANDS!!! WOO HOO!!! Jared and Addy joined up with us for lunch at Johnny Rocket's a yummy 1950's type restaurant in the mall! We went on some more rides that day and finally returned to the hotel. Later on that evening we went to TGIFridays as I had never eaten there before! I really liked Ed's appetizers... they were some yummy chicken strips in some sort of sauce... YUM!!! We then just hung out in our rooms for the rest of the night!

Mall of America - March 14th & 15th, 2009

Oliver woke up this morning not feeling well so Ed stayed with him while Jared and his girls and Eden and I ventured to the mall for a few hours. There are soooooo many great stores there that it was hard to get to all of them, but we managed... after all, we WERE there for a whole week! :O) Aubrey had wanted to go to the American Girl store since we had first gotten there and so we finally went. We looked all around the store to find a doll that resembled Aubrey and Natalie and they found "Kit" and "Molly"!!! As a wonderful surprise, Eden also was able to get a doll as well. Hers was "Ruthie"! She was just BEAMING!!!

We got back to the hotel and the girls played with their dolls for the remainder of the day. As it turned out, Ed took Oliver to a doctor up there and he had Strep Throat, probably from me since he was around me before I even knew that I had it! Poor little man. He just layed low and watched TV all day in bed. I hate seeing my kiddos not feeling well! Good thing we had MANY more days together so he didn't miss much! Nat also was a bit under the weather, but recovered surprisingly quick!

That night we ordered pizza and swam in the hotel! It was nice to cool off and relax after walking around the mall for so long. (My feet were still VERY sore from my heel spur surgery, but I think I did pretty well!)

The next day we went to the mall in the morning and ate lunch at Famous Dave's, but went back to the hotel because I wasn't feeling well and so we all just had an easy day at the hotel!

Mall of America - March 12th & 13th, 2009

The morning we left I woke up around 7:30 and just KNEW I had Strep Throat. I was like, "CRAP!!! Go freakin' figure... right when we are supposed to leave for vacation!" So, I got up and waited for Urgent Care to open at 8 am so I could be the first one seen and sure enough... STREP!!! I then went to get my meds and waited awhile for those so we didn't get to leave for the Mall of America until several hours after we planned.

Spring Break Extravaganza!

MONDAY - St. Patrick's Day GREEN Dinner (see previous blog).









TUESDAY - Lunch at Chuck E. Cheese with Brenda, Nathan, Nick & McKenzie. They had a new machine that took your picture and scanned it onto a card. Mine was a "Diva" card. Ollie had a "Firefighter" card. Eden had five different cards, including a "Hip Hop Dancer" card! I even got one of Jaren. His was a "Rock Concert Backstage Pass" card.

VIDEO: "How Eden Got Her Groove Back"

WEDNESDAY - Rollerskating and a visit to TILT, our local arcade featuring Black Light Mini Golf. The kids went skating and were even better this time! We wanted to do something with Ed during break so later in the evening we went to the arcade. Oliver and I played the Black Light Mini Golf. It was done up like we were playing under the sea. Really great artwork! Ed played some games with Ollie and I took her to Claire's, a girly store. She got some lip gloss and a pair of pink rhinestone slip on shoes that look like crocs. She still doesn't want to get her ears pierced. I figure that she'll let us know if she ever wants to go through with it!

Oliver and Eden at the Roller Rink

Entrance to the Black Light Mini Golf. Eden and Ollie.

Oliver concentrating so intently!

Ed and I had some Pirate Target Practice!

THURSDAY - A Night at the movies! My mom watched Jaren so we could take the kids to see "Horton Hears A Who". I thought it was a really cute movie! I just can't get over how much it is to take two kids to a movie and get popcorn and drinks... INSANE! We all just love seeing movies together!




FRIDAY - My mom and I took the kids to La Chapala, a mexican restaurant. We just love everything about it. I guess a cook from Las Margaritas started his own restaurant and so the food is exactly the same. Oooooohhh so good!