Grandma's Birthday Weekend

This past weekend the entire Puzey clan headed to Edmonton to celebrate Grandma's birthday.  We pulled the boys from school and after a quick trip to the barber shop for haircuts we headed on our way Thursday morning.  We arrived in Edmonton around 4:00 p.m. checked into our hotel and then went over to the West Edmonton Mall.

After a bit of shopping we met everyone at the Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner.  We had a great meal together with all 19 of us at the same table.

After having a yummy breakfast at the hotel Friday morning we headed back to the West Edmonton Mall and spent the entire day at the Waterpark. The boys had so much fun with their cousins.  They swam in the wave pool and rode the slides all day.  Bowen was so adventurous and went on lots of slides he had never been on before.

Bowen, Ashton and Jason also decided to try the new zipline that goes the entire length of the park.  I couldn't believe Bowen agreed.  He told me he was nervous but still wanted to do it.  He ended up thinking it was awesome.  Ashton of course wasn't hesitant at all to go as he is our daredevil.

After they kicked us out of the waterpark we got a bite to eat and went back to the hotel.  The boys were pretty quick to fall asleep.

Saturday started with breakfast again at the hotel and then we went back to the mall to spend the day at Galaxyland.  Again I was so proud of Bowen he tried so many new rides.

The boys even tried one call Space Shot that shoots you 130 ft in the air at 3G's.  Bowen didn't like this one very much, but Ashton went on it 3 more times.

You can see the difference between my boys in this picture.  One in sheer joy, the other sheer panic!!

We opened and closed galaxyland as well as the waterpark the day before.  We went to Earl's for dinner and then back to the hotel.  Straight to bed again for all of us.  We were all tuckered out.  We headed home on Sunday and were very fortunate to have good roads to travel on.  We had such a great time with everyone.  Mom was pleased to have her whole family together for her birthday!  We'll have to do it again in a few years.