Josh and Becca Thrap and Family

For those of you not on Facebook, our plan for Spring Break this year was to follow Josh to work in Omaha and hang out at the hotel pool etc. I asked for many suggestions of things that the kids might enjoy doing in the Omaha area, but for the most part we really did just hang out in the hotel. Although, after weeks of telling the kids we were going to Omaha, as it turns out, the hotel Josh stays at is in Council Bluffs! So we had to give him a bit of a hard time about that one. We did have a nice room though and our tv had spots to plug in our video camera so we spent a lot of time just relaxing and watching old home movies from when the kids were babies and toddlers. Of course the kids enjoyed the pool!

On St. Patrick’s Day of course we all wore green and Josh took part of the afternoon off so we could go shopping and we took the kids out for a fancy fondue dinner at the Melting Pot. They all tried lobster and filet mignon for the first time and mostly enjoyed it! On our last day there we went to the Children’s Museum. The kids of all ages enjoyed the ball room and the construction zone! Then we found some costumes and sat through a puppet show.

On our way home, we made a detour up to Ames to see Percy Jackson and the Olympians the Lightning Theif. We’d been warned it was not great but the kids wanted to see it anyway. Jacob is reading the book. The movie exceeded my expectations, but Jacob agreed that the book is way way better and therefore the movie stunk. LOL Completely unrelated, yesterday we made the kids swap bedrooms. It was quite an undertaking and I don’t have any pictures yet, but I’ll take some when the process is finished. I do have some pictures of what I did today, here, enjoy!