A Winter Day

Yesterday was a great day. A great winter day. It didn't start off great, but definitely made up for it by the end.

Our friends Dave and Andra and their two girls Zoey and Andy were in town for Winterlude. We were supposed to meet up with them at the Snowflake Kingdom with Kev, Sab and Kathryn. The first problem was finding parking, which we finally did at the museum. Then as we were unbuckling Max, we realized that the backpack was not in the car as I thought. Crap. Marty said he would be fine carrying him around, but I felt terrible.

Second problem, the number Dave gave us for his cell didn't work. You see, there are hundreds of families, all dressed up in their winter gear. Trying to find one family is basically like trying to find a needle in a hay stack. We met up with Kev and Sab (using the cellphone) and ended up walking around for just over an hour trying to find the others. No luck. We enjoyed the time but it was noon and we were all getting pretty hungry so we decided to head home and wait to hear from Dave and Andra. We did hear from them, just as we were getting to the car. It was decided that Marty and I would go to Kev and Sab's for lunch and Dave and Andra would call us when they got back to the hotel. The second part of our day was to go swimming with the kids at the hotel pool.

Once we finally all got together we were eight adults and six kids. Mike, Julie and their kids Jayden and Harrison arrived as well. Thank goodness it was a suite. We all hung out for a while and then headed down to the pool. Holy crap it was cold!! I was surprised that Max didn't complain. He is used to much warmer water when he swims. It was Marty's first time with Max in the pool and they both had a great time. I was very happy that Marty decided to swim.

After the swim it was back to the hotel to hang out again. We ended up ordering pizza and stayed until Max could barely keep his eyes open. He did so well even without any nap.

It's interesting how kids can bring friends together more than before kids arrived. You'd think it would be the other way around, that kids would make it more difficult to get together, but it seems that they are the ones that bring you together. We are so fortunate to have friends with such great kids. Marty and I will learn a lot from them.

This is Jayden the oldest, with Max the youngest. Is Max's head bigger than hers? Ack!