Part 10: Daddy goes to work..

At least it started to warm up for our first day without Mike at the hotel.  In the morning we wandered on over to get a Starbucks coffee from the restaurant, and then signed up for the kids activity "Giant Wooden Snakes".  A lady from the "fun team" hid 4 wooden snakes around the pool area which Paige and Rose tried to find.  Then they got to paint one.  I originally just paid for 1 snake to be painted, but then Rose was jealous and I asked for another one.  The lady gave the snakes to the girls on paper plates.  Rose proceeded to paint the plate and only the plate.  She was reaching in for brush after brush and mixing all the colours up in the ice cube tray that they were in.  Paige was doing a good job in switching her brushes and not mixing and I eventually gave her Rose's snake to paint and just let Rose continue on her plate. THey got soooo dirty! THe plan after the snake activity was to go to the playground so I left the snake and plate masterpieces at the activity desk to dry and took my kids who looked like ruffians to the park.  I wish I had taken a picture of them painting the snakes but I really couldn't take my hands off Rose as she was getting out of hand!

During the afternoon Paige played with  2 wooden snakes for more than an hour and a half while I read and lied down.  

After Rose's nap I took them to the small kids wading pool right outside our building.  It is only 1 foot deep but I sat on the edge as Rose could slip and go under, as she did once.  Paige likes to pretend to be a dolphin in this pool and there is a small seal spray thing on the side, but some other people had covered it up with a chair. 

Cool sky:

After the pool we proceeded to look for our lost money at the sand park but were unsuccessful.

I let the girls watch the Winnie the Pooh movie while I made dinner and then some of Rio.  They have watched Monster's Inc at least 3 times on this trip as well as Rio.  Our days are so busy that by the evening they like watching a show while I make dinner--and I like that they watch one too.  haha.

Now that they are used to sharing a room I read them books together on the spare bed, said that it was time for sleep and they gave each other hugs and kisses, we tucked Paige in and then I put Rose in her crib and I said good night and turned out the light and then they went to sleep.  hmmm...that was a long sentence, but you get the idea...