We may have watched Finding Dory three plus times over Thanksgiving.

Anyway…

We also headed to Niagara Falls as a family over Thanksgiving break. Friends of ours had won a free night’s stay at a hotel, but unfortunately moved out of state before they could use it. So they gifted it to us!

The original plan had been to visit the Aquarium and do some touristy things before heading to Andy’s parent’s house on Thanksgiving day. Andy wasn’t feeling great before or during the trip though so we pretty much just bummed around the hotel. The kids loved staying up late watching TV and eating snacks in bed. They slept pretty well (Cassidy and I shared a queen bed, Andy and Ben also shared a queen). Our room neighbors stayed up pretty late and woke up loud and early which was a little annoying, but I suppose nobody really goes to a hotel to sleep well.

The kids doing a puzzle the next morning. They were bright eyed and bushy tailed!

Hotel picnic breakfasts are awesome!

Poor widdle sick Andy. Haha, the poor guy did actually feel pretty crummy.

I took the kids down to the pool and we were excited to find a mini aquarium too! I’d never actually told them we were planning to do the aquarium (I tend to not tell them things ahead of time because then I have to answer questions for days).

So fun!

This one was Ben’s favorite, with sharks and stingrays.

This is a perfect depiction of the kids’ personalities :) Ben is cautious, calculating and a little hesitant to try new things (even if he is super friendly and outgoing). Cassidy just goes for it, wants to do it herself and and is very determined that she will succeed at it.

The hot tub was their favorite part!

Warm foamy bubbles!

“I want to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star BY MYSELF!”

That afternoon we headed to the arcade that was attached to our hotel. Ben had a blast.

Cassidy kept starting games, then getting bored and not finishing them! She did enjoy this one though (we didn’t win anything, surprise).

For lunch we went to Rainforest Cafe!

The kids thought it was really neat!

We had to walk around to find all the different animals.

Ben checking out the scenery.

We even splurged and bought the kids mugs and plates ;-) We’re not usually ones for cheapy souvenirs but, meh, it was a special little outing.

Saying goodbye to the rainforest.

So the outing didn’t turn out exactly as planned but I still think we had a fun adventure :)