Confessions of a Stay Home Mom: A mini Holiday

Since summer is Dustin's busiest time at work, we prefer to take longer holidays in winter. So in summer, we try and do a few nights away just so that it doesn't feel like it's been months in between breaks. Ideally we go camping, but seeing as how it's rained most weekends, and the mosquito population is bursting in numbers after every rain, we opted for something indoor.

We booked a family theme room at CanadInns Grand Forks for a night. It's only a few hours away but feels like a major change since the stores and restaurants are all a novelty in the States.
We got a "Caveman" themed room. The boys had bunk-beds, and a cable tv with a ps2 all to themselves in their own little room within the room. They were in heaven with it, and Dustin and I could watch something other than cartoons in the evening on the flat screen by the Queen bed. We were really impressed with the room and the hotel.

Mmm, donuts for night snack!

The water park was another hit! It was fairly big, and we thought the separate entrance fee to use it was completely reasonable. We've spent almost as much using the town's pool and it doesn't have nearly all the things the water park here did.
It was super family friendly, our kids could ride everything with us, or separately, although Zach opted to ride with a lifejacket on one that had a height restriction to ride solo on.
With lots of lifeguards and seating all over for parents to take a break and still be able to watch their kids, again, we were really impressed!
We will definitely be back!

Water slides, a huge bucket than dumps water, and valves and hoses to spray each other! So much to do on this platform!

We named this one the 'toilet bowl'. It was a tube ride that sent you down a regular waterslide, then around and around in this big thing, and then "flushed" you down another slide to the pool below. It was SO fun!
There was also a Lazy River that floated around this slide.