BACK HOME AGAIN

Well, everyone made it home safely and we are headed in to a really busy start to summer! Madeline has band camp every morning and 2 basketball camps this week, and a game every Thursday night. Caitlin has Power Elite and CNHS Band camp in the evenings. The boys both have baseball games twice a week and Miss Mimi is along for the ride! So, we will keep you up to date as often as we can...

Check back in a few days and I'll try to have posts up from the last weeks of school!

CANCUN DAY 7

Today was a wet and rainy morning in town. Mom, Caitlin & I went into town after breakfast to do some last minute shopping for gifts. The boys stayed here with the other kids. It was nice to just have a morning without dragging them out of all the tourist trap stores... lol =] The kids were in the pool all day.

Thane & Seth painted by the pool a piece of ceramic art each. It was cute and I will have to take a pic of them and post it later. You will enjoy it.

Since we will be leaving early in the morning, we had to say goodbye to Kike today. He wantewd a picture of him and Mia. So here it is Kike...we hope you like it! We have had so much fun here with you! BIG HUGS from us! ( Oh...and the second one my mom snapped while you were talking...it is really good.. =] )


We took tons of pice of our kids tonight before dinner. I will post a few here. We bought each of the girls a wrap dress that you can wear 100 different ways. So they all wore them tonight. SOOO CUTE!!! And there are lots and lots of neat places to take pictures here. I think I will just do Caiti's senior pics myself on our vacation that year! lol =] Leave us some comments and let us know what you think!

Dinner pics tomorrow. As, we are headed there now....

Hugs,

The Wilson Fam- still wishing we could extend this merriment... =]

CANCUN DAY 6

Hey everyone! Well, this morning we started out with breakfast and more shopping. We went to the Plaza Coracol. It is a pretty high end mall. We picked up a few gifts and then headed over to the Isla. It is an even bigger fancier mall. Dad was looking for the Harley shop and the kids wanted to check out everything. We had reservations at the Aquarium there, to swim with the dolphins at 3pm. I FINALLY got to swim with dolphins TODAY!!! It has been a dream of mine since I was a little girl. I can’t believe I can now check it off my life list! =] yay for me! Anyway, my niece and nephew also swam with them. Check out the pic of my very special dolphin kiss! I am so excited. Altho, I have to be honest…I was a little nervous as we were entering the pool. Lol.

After all that fun, we rounded out the evening with another great meal and headed to bed pretty early. Everyone was so tired! ;) Tomorrow is our last full day in CanCun and we have lots of plans…well the kids want to be on the beach or in the pool all day!

Mom and I will most likely run into town in the morning to check out Chocolate City a store in the mall. Somehow we missed it the other day and just have to go back! =]

More pics later…thanks for staying tuned….

Hugs,

The Wilson Fam- who secretly would like to miss the plane and hang out here another week…

CANCUN DAY 5

Look what was waiting on us in our rooms last night... lol In my room they put the swans and and a monkey for Mia, in the kids room there were these puppies. Made out of towels...can you believe it? So cute.

Today we did not get as much accomplished as we hoped. We started out with a great breakfast, and a meeting with Kike. He took us to the newest resort that is owned by our resort chain. It was really nice. We then came back to crunch numbers to see if it would benefit us to upgrade our current agreement or not. It worked out for us to upgrade so we did. Yeah!! We love vacationing here.

After that, of course the kids were ready for the pool, so of course we decided to do that. We will have reservations tonight at Marco Polo restaurant. It is a 4 star place and I will post a pic later of us at dinner.

CANCUN DAY 4

Today was shopping Day! It was so much fun! We headed out to Kulkulcan Plaza to check out the deals It was so beautiful. It has been 6 years since we were here last and it has changed so much! We were able to pick up some silver chains, some blankets and lots of little souvineirs for the kids. Here are soms shots of the kids just chillin in the mall. And, of course we made our once a week trek to WalMart- even here! lol

We then came back to the hotel to relax by the pool and catch some sun before dinner. Mia is getting more comfortable in the water and Thane learned to swim on his own today! Yahoo!

Tonight we had a formal dinner for the members of the resort! STEAK & LOBSTER!!! YEAH!! It was wonderful. We were met by hors-dourves and champagne cocktails, roses and linen draped chairs! It was amazing. We were met by our Rep Kike again. He is so sweet and quite the looker.... =] We were also entertained by an amazing violinist and man on a keyboard. I will post pics of the food for my friend Karen.. Luv ya babe!

CANCUN DAY 3

Today we got up early and headed out for a 2 hour bus ride to the Myan City/Center of Chichen-Itza. We have been there before, but it is so cool to see and has recently been named as one of the new 7 wonders of the world. Our tour guide was amazing and so funny.

We enjoyed the ruins altho it was hooooooooooooooot.... I mean way hot. The humidity here is so high! So we are so sweaty...Here is Caiti with our Member representative from the hotel His name is Kike,

We then went to an incredible sink hole called a cenote to swim. It was so beautiful it looked like heaven! The water was only 65 degrees though...but we got in! My battery is dying I will post more tomorrow....enjoy!

The Wilson Fam

CANCUN DAY 2

Well, we had our first full day in CanCun today! We started the morning out at a breakfast for the members of the hotel. We were introduced to the other members who will also be here this week, and we met the staff. It was a good time and they give away alot of stuff. Gavin and I were called on stage for a dancing contest. Can you believe it? Gavin can't dance at all and I am just average. So funny….they pitted us against a couple who were taking lessons. They asked us to cha cha and meringue…lol. That is not exactly what they got, however, Gavin was a good sport and we gave them a good show. After 2 tie applause counts, we had a dance off and were finally named the VICTORS!!! YAHOO FOR US!! We won 2 t-shirts and 2 hats!

It was pretty hot so we hung out at the pool all afternoon. We went to the ‘party pool’ and the kids participated in some of the games and dances. We also walked down to the beach to check it out.

The girls decided to get their hair braided for fun. They look so cute! Mia didn’t know what to think about all of it though and got quite bored waiting. We promised her some ice cream for being a good girl and you can see she enjoyed that!

In the evening we went to the welcome dinner. They hosted it downtown at Carlos & Charlie’s Restaurant & Bar. Oh my goodness! It was soooooooo much fun. We had a blast! Everyone got a drink in a yard glass full of whatever…mine was a pina colada..lol! We danced on our chairs, were serenaded by an incredible mariachi band..check out Caitlin with the trumpet player…and the kids got balloon hats and animals! So much fun….

We then walked a bit and saw this golden man. It was a guy, in his spankies, covered in gold glitter. Yummy right? Just kidding. Anyway you could tip him to take your picture with him…so we did. Caiti was first, then mia, then made. It was hilarious. Mia was posing with him and cracking him up. I love it!

Well, that is all for today. I will try to post more tomorrow with pictures from the myan pyramid at Chichen- Itza.

Lots of love- The slightly sunburned Wilson Fam

CANCUN DAY 1

We atrrived safely in the evening after a good flight. We arrived at our hotel at about 9:30. We ate a great meal and headed off to bed. Everyone is so excited to see what the week holds for us.

We are in a suite or caribe style villa on the left side of this pic! We have an amazing ocean view from our balconies!

Stay tuned for pics....

Wilson Fam :)

CONNER PRAIRIE FIELD TRIP

I was invited as a chaperone with Madeline's class to Conner Prairie. I must admit that I have not been there since I was on m y 5th grade field trip! LOL So, I was pretty excited to see it gain myself. Although, the kids went with my mom 2 yrs ago. Anyway... sidenote ...isn't it funny how things lose their size as we get older...I mean it looked so small! When I was younger it seemed gigantic. I get the same feeling when I revist North High School and or even King's Island...anyone else feel the same? Ok moving on....

So, I rode up with 2 other moms and it was great to get to meet some other Parkside Parents!

In this house, we learned about how they spun the wool and how they dyed it different colors. to my shigrin and udder disgust, I learned that Red 40 which is a color added to lots of food and drinks that we consume EVERY DAY is derived from a maroon colored worm!! EWWW They dry the worms and crush them into a fine powder. Then mix with water to create a dye. Again, EWWWW!!! So, since then I have been label reading to see just how many worms, ack, I am consuming each day. Ack ack!

Madee never did figure these things out. I didn't even try , so don't ask! LOL. There were no backs on the benches in the classroom. We agreed that we are thankful to have those now! =]

I enjoyed the trip and got some really cute thank you notes from the girls in my group!