Chinese Culture Weekend - Day 2

After breakfast on Saturday, we enjoyed an introduction to acupuncture. Then, we learned to cook some traditional chinese dishes.
The kids made some chinese crafts in the kids clubhouse.

Before dinner, we took the kids down to the beach at the harbor.

After dinner, the kids enjoyed a round or town of ping pong.

Lobster dinner was served, my family ate mac and cheese and hotdogs.

Ellen enjoyed her lobster though!

We ended the night with many s'mores by the fire.

Chinese Culture Weekend - Bay Leaf Cottages

Left work early on a Friday and headed up to Lincolnville, ME with our friends Ellen and Anna for a chinese culture weekend. Hosted by Ask Jane in China!! Here is a picture of our cabin, luckily it had a/c as this was the end of the week that the temp went well over 100 degrees.

Big BooBoo

That is an awful big boo boo for a little girl. She slipped on her scooter and landed on her chin. OUCH!

Swimming in the Deflated Pool

The girls enjoyed swimming in their pool in the backyard, I am just not sure if they realized it was deflating. When I asked Lexi to show me going under water, she jumped up, held her nose and dunked down - unfortunately she never went under water as the water was too shallow.

Day 4 Jamestown & Williamsburg

I must say this area is very beautiful and definately worth visiting. Olivia dips her toes into the James River and they collected some sea shells
We saw a demonstration on how they made glass back in the day.

Here is a pic of the boats from a distance.

These are a few pics from Presidents Park - we tried to go there 3 times but they were never opened, so they may be permanently closed. This place is kind of neat, I could only get a few pics from the fence. This George Bush.

And of course, George Washington

Then, we spent a few hours walking around Colonial Williamsburg, which you don't really need a ticket for. This is the shoemakers house.

When we got in to town on Saturday, there were thousands of these tents set up, with the British invading and thousands of red coats.

This is the governors palace, set up for Governor Dunsmore era.

Day 3 Busch Gardens

Today we ventured out to Busch Gardens. They say the parks open at 10am, but for both parks we arrived at 9am got prime parking and got right in, no need to get there at 10am. The perfect torture chamber for my two kids, the messy one and the one who talks too much!


Our first stop was Sesame Street, where Lexi was very excited to go on her size rides. She even went on the roller coaster in this area with me and Olivia.

After Sesame Street, Olivia and I went on the Pompei Water Ride and barely got wet. So, I suggested we ride the Roamin Rapids..not knowing just how wet we were going to get. Here is Olivia, not very happy with me that she is drenched. We got stuck under the water fall and had water pouring down on us and our backpacks. Thus, my phone no longer working and my checkbook is in shreds...luckily the camera still worked. We didn't dry off until 6pm.

I am one of those moms that makes her kids get up with the dancers, here is Olivia doing the polka.

The kids playing in dragon eggs.

Here we are crossing the rainbow bridge with the pot of gold at the end in Ireland. Oh and the stroller, if you really thought I paid for that your crazy. After a few rides, I noticed a sign that said complimentary stroller if you left your stroller on the other side of the park due to going on sky ride or train. How Stupid!! So, instead of paying $16, I just picked one up here, there were plenty for everyone :)

Need I say more - Olivia pointed this "Male" horse out to me.

We finished the park by going back to Sesame Street's water spritzer where the kids just got dry to get soaked again.

We had a great time and when we got back to the hotel, we laughed our butts off because Wally's feet were dark brown, due to the dye coming out of her sandals onto her feet. The color is still wearing off...

Day 2 Water Country

Today we went to Water Country...luckily we got there one hour before they opened and stayed in line, got front row parking and prime seating at the wave pool. Everyone had a blast! We loved the Hubba Hubba Highway.

Wallis and the girls in the wave pool

Striking a pose! Love that the girls could wear life vests all day, was one less thing I had to worry about.
Playing at the Kiddie Korral

Olivia takes a rest

At the end of the day, waiting for their non a/c taxi to pick them up!

Not a lot of pictures from Water Country as I didn't have my camera on me at all times...we may go back another day and I will try to take more pics!

Once we got back to the hotel, the girls immediately went to the pool. Didn't make much sense to me, since we just spent the entire day in water. The pool actually looks good in this pic! It is very funny, the lounge chairs are missing straps and the plastic loungers are broken. Even the life ring is broken in pieces attached to a 100 year old rope. I guess we got what we paid for! Oh and those other people in pic to the right, are what you would called trailer trash...although very nice and gave us a lot of pointers, they actually work at the other hotel that these hotel owners own and came down to swim. He didn't mind sitting in the lounge chair with just a few straps because he was totally wasted!!

One of the pointers was to eat at CiCi's Pizza. For just $5.49 it was all you can eat salad, soup, pasta, pizza and desert, the kids ate for $3.49. It was so nice to meet "the people" at the pool. I guess I shouldn't have been making jokes about the No Tell Motel and how much this hotel was a dive, because they seemed to really be enjoying it.

Lexi eating apple pie pizza - YUMMY!

Olivia enjoying Mac and Cheese Pizza!

We will see what tomorrow brings at Busch Gardens, as you know it is always an adventure with us!