Our Mini Vacay

The company Kevin works for was doing some work on the Hilton in Downtown, and we were able to go down for a night last monday, and enjoy a pretend vacation with the girls! We were planning on going to "the Aquarium" to hang out and enjoy some rides and then stay for dinner. It ended up being way too late, so we just had dinner and enjoyed the scenery inside the restaurant before heading to the hotel. We set up for the night and got the girls situated and as soon as that was done, Kevin had something in mind that he wanted to do......it wasn't what you're thinking. The Hilton is right next door to the Toyota Center, and there was a rockets game. That's right, he left us to go see the game, and he even got in, without a ticket. I don't know how that boy does that, but he always manages to get things for free!

The next morning we headed to a park next to the hotel, they have an outdoor ice skating rink there, which I really wanted to do, but it didn't work out, instead the girls played on a playground right there, and I was able to play with my new telephoto lens for my camera, yeah! Once they were done there, we headed back to the Aquarium to play a little bit more. It was tons of fun and it was great to feel like we got to have a little vacation not far from home. Lexie could have slept a little better, we were both a little tired the second day, but other than that, we had an amazing time and it was great to just hang out with our little family and enjoy the moment!

Look at some of these awesome fish! The girls loved it here!

The middle picture is the inside of the restaurant. It totally felt like you were underwater. Halli thought it was cool to be like a mermaid.

Our cozy and comfy hotel stay. The girls slept great, except for Lexie, who slept great on me all night, so I had a very sore back the next morning. I guess she just didn't like the closet. That or the fact that she had her shots that day, not such great timing.

The view from our hotel, not our room but in the hotel, you can see it looks down on the toyota center. Yeah, Kevin was lovin that.

This was at the park the next day, tons of fun!

Halli actually smiled at the camera! I think she hates it, she always turns her back to it and tries to avoid it, so yeah for the smiling happy picture!

This is inside the shark tank, we went twice and both times as soon as we got outside, Peyton was saying "more" and wanting to go back.

Riding the carousel, nothing's better than that!

The ferris wheel, looking down on houston! The other girls were there too, they just didn't look as happy in their pictures, I don't think they really cared.

This is pretty cool you could touch the sting rays, or go underneath and look at them through the glass. The girls loved this and stayed under there for quite a long time!

All-in-all it was a great mini-vacation,and we thoroughly enjoyed our time together, we just might make a mini-vacation over christmas break an annual tradition!