And we are back home. . . .

One of the beauties of homeschooling is that you can take school with you anywhere! This week we were able to spend it with Dan in the cities. He was working at a bank there and it is much easier for him to just stay in a hotel there overnight since he usually works till at least 7, and then has at least a couple of hours of work to do after that. So we decided to go with him. We stayed at a Holiday Inn in Lakeville and had a great time. Since Dan travels so much, he has earned platinum status with Holiday Inn so we booked the cheapest hotel room and were upgraded to a 2-room suite. Of course, Dan's work pays for it anyway, but it was nice to be able to do that.

We went up Tuesday afternoon and checked in, took a nap, then hit the pool. The pool area was great. They have a HUGE hot tub, a kiddie pool that is only 8 inches deep with a slide and a few other cool things, and a separate 3 foot pool with waterslide and swim area. And the way they have it situated, I can sit in the hot tub and keep and eye on Darin and Natalie at the same time. For me, this is a great benefit since I am almost always cold at hotel pools. They just don't keep the air and water warm enough. Poor Natalie froze her tooshie off and joined me in the hot tub quite a bit.

We had planned to leave the hotel today as Dan was scheduled to be at the bank today also. But as so often happens, the bank just wasn't as ready as they thought. So we came home last night. Dan didn't find out that we were going to be coming home last night till late afternoon so we hadn't checked out of the hotel yet. So I packed everything up and we checked out around 8pm. They didn't even charge Dan for the room last night!! How's that for a late checkout. :-)

We did get quite a bit of schoolwork done and managed to also watch some HGTV--my personal favorite. And Ellie and Kara love HGTV too. That was what they wanted to watch whenever we had any free time (if we weren't swimming).

All in all, we had a great time and Dan was very glad that we were there with him. It makes travelling not so bad for him.