Monday, July 16, 2012

Forgot What I Was doing!


 Last weekend, Jeremy and I had a TON to do.  And we had told the kids that we would take them to the Landing water park if they did good at swimming lessons.  They all did good but in the week or two before we went, they did awful with chores and attitude.  So many times we threaten to take stuff away or actually take stuff away and then when it comes down to actually doing it, we let them because we already had it planned or paid for or something like that.  Well, they are on to our lenient ways and tried to get by with all kinds of stuff.  Finally, we took going to the water park away from them and we stuck by our guns even though I really, really wanted to go anyway.
So, Jeremy and I decided to go get our stuff done and use the babysitting we already had lined up.  We went to Quincy and got stuff to work on our house, did some shopping, ate, ran errands, you know, all that annoying and boring stuff.  Then as we were leaving Quincy, on a whim, we decided to have a spontaneous night to ourselves at the Stoneycreek Inn.  I was pretty excited because I already had my swim bag in the car from being packed for the Landing and the hotel is supposed to have a pretty cool swim/jacuzzi area.  We checked in (they only had 2 rooms left) and went to the pool.  They had one of the half indoor/half outdoor pools.  I've been to some in the past that are flipping awesome, so I was pretty stoked.  Only to get there and realize that it is tiny and stupid.  The water was FREEZING (In 106 degree temps, wth?) and it was only 3 and 4 feet deep.  The little plastic thing to separate the indoor from the outdoor was the wrong kind and was horrible to try to get through.  So we went to the jacuzzi.  Have to say that the size of it was great!  But, that's about it.  They said that there was a poolside bar...there wasn't.  There was a beer stand,yuck.  With a tiny round table with 4 chairs around it.
The rooms were very clean and orderly but WAY tiny.  The decor is all in woods, logs, and moose.  Literally looks like they took a whole ski/western lodge and stuck it behind Steak n Shake.  Weird.  Really weird.  We just didn't get why people rave about it so much.  It's just a ho-hum average hotel.  Very disappointing.  But, I guess we are hotel snobs, lol.  Oh well.  We did have a really good nights sleep and got to finish up the rest of the stuff we had to do in Quincy the next morning instead of driving all the way back to Quincy again.  Sweet!
On the way home we passed this cool little windmill....I love windmills!  I don't know if you can read the sign of the little church that we stopped and took a picture of but it had us both laughing!!! Bahahaha!

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