So after the 'Peterson Death March" -y-ness of yesterday, Marisa had declared today to be a catch up day and said that we weren't going to leave the resort and the kids could just hang out and take part in the activities, which was necessary. It was also false. Anyone who knows my lovely wife knows that she can't stay in one place for a full day. Be it this resort, or a five star resort in Mexico. An excuse must be made to leave or she gets at loose ends about mid way thru the day. Even at home, if there is a full day where she doesn't leave the house, she'll make a drive down the hill just to "get a coffee" to get out of the house. I don't know why she gets that way, I just know she does. So it was no surprise that midway thru the morning she was on the internet in the lodge trying to find something, anything remotely interesting in the vicinity to go and do.
We put the kids into the kids camp here for the morning (9-1) while we relaxed and got some laundry done. I got a workout in, Marisa surfed the internet for an excuse, we went to the pool and read and relaxed. The kids had a blast at kids camp, going on the bungie trampoline, making clay sculptures, building a fort, playing four square and having lunch. After we picked them up we finished up our activites, Tanner and Faith going for a trail ride, Jake riding the ATV's and everyone jumping on the bungie trampoline again. After a quick folding of the laundry and clean up, we were back in the car and out to dinner/the store.
To be fair, the food here is awful. We have been at highs and lows for food on this trip, but this resort has been the low at every meal we have had to eat here. So Marisa kind of seized on that to get a trip into town for an early dinner (combined with a side trip to a town of movie settings advertised online and in the Kanab Times newspaper). Again, to be fair, it might have been the best Mexican food I have ever eaten. It was easily the best refried beans that I have ever had and it was all uphill from there. We hit the grocery store for some supplies as things are looking like they might get dicey in our next stop (side note - the details of this next stop have been leaked out to me little-by-little for the last few months, things like; "we have to share a bathroom", I was told last month. "There might not be wi-fi" came a little bit later. Today over a lovely Mexican dinner I was told, "there's not any electricity"). Plus the excuse for a drive got us further into "A Series of Unfortunate Events" Book 2. I have forgotten how much I enjoyed reading these books a few years ago and I am REALLY enjoying listening to Tim Curry read them as the desert landscape rolls by out the window. We are trying to get the next two books in some audible format as we have gone thru the first two WAY faster than we had intended. We tried Audible (too expensive), tried the library free loan of audio books (they have it but Marisa's library card isn't set up to check them out), and even looked into getting it on kindle and having it read in the monotone compu-voice (but quickly decided against that idea). Marisa is going to try to sign up for a free trial on Audible.com using Jake's name after I type this.
We were all full and happy after dinner and, her need to escape satiated, we didn't even try to find the "movie town", we just headed back to the lodge. We went back to the pool with the little kids while Jake was off to the rec barn again to pretend to be an orphan and hang out with anyone but his own family. He has been going there every spare minute that we let him, to hang out with teenagers. Anytime we walk in he pretends he doesn't know us. He won't play anything in there with his brother or sister in case anyone were to see him, so I have played both pool and ping-pong with Tanner and Faith. It's like he's 15 already and it's driving me crazy. Is this what our future holds???
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