"Surprise" Holiday

Jason has had this past week off work.  Tuesday after taking the boys to a matinee we were discussing what we should do with dad's week off.  It was decided on Wednesday we would head up to Red Deer to go to a tube river run, and then the rest of the week we would go to Calaway, the Southland Leisure Centre, and maybe the zoo.  Later Tuesday night Jason was checking out some prices online and found a pretty good deal at the West Edmonton Mall.  We decided to head up to Edmonton after our visit to Red Deer and surprise the boys.

After they headed to bed, I did laundry and got us packed up to go.  Jason hauled everything out to the truck to hide our luggage.  We got up early Wednesday morning, packed a picnic lunch and headed to Red Deer.  The boys had a hoot.  It was a fun little river run into a lagoon and you can rent tubes.

We stopped for lunch - played some more and then headed to Edmonton.  It was so funny the boys never noticed we were going the wrong way.  Finally as we were pulling into the mall - Ashton says "Why are we at the West Edmonton Mall?"  Then when they found out we were staying at the Fantasyland Hotel they were really excited.

We spent the whole next day at the World Waterpark.  We spent lots of time in the wave pool, sliding, and Cadence even went swimming a few times in the kiddie pool and hot tub.  I'm not sure how much she enjoyed it, but she tolerated it.

Then we hit the food court for some supper.

The next day was just as busy.  We had bought a package at the hotel for passes for the waterpark, sea life caverns, sea lion show, mini golf and breakfast.

We did a bit of  back to school shopping, had some supper and headed home around 7:00 pm.  It was a great impromptu holiday and we had some great family time.