And Charley didn't even float away!

It's March Break around here, so things are all systems go!  Keep the boys busy!  Get them out into the fresh air!  Stimulate young brains!  Work on reading, writing, etc!

I'm freakin' exhausted from March Break.  Half way done!  Half way done!

We took the boys to Niagara Falls for a couple days.  You can get the best deals online for packages to the cheese-capital of Canada.  We got so many add-ons with our package that I think our suite worked out to about $5.  The boys, having never been there, were appropriately entertained.  And the grownups had a remarkably good time too, considering that there were about 7000 other families there having 'fun' too.  Haha!  There's nothing like watching families on a March break 'fun trip'.  We saw countless crabby parents and kids either running wild or attached to electronic devices.  (Not sure which is worse...)  At one point, we were using our dining credit at The Keg (all beef, all the time!) and we saw a family with a mom drinking wine, a dad on his iphone and a teenager with their head on the table.  It was awesome.

Niagara Falls is all that I remember from my 1983 visit.  That was when my good ol' Dad, Jimmy earned his super-heroic-dad medal by taking Sarah, Ben and me for 3 days on his own.  HE-RO-IC.  It's still full of cheesy, overpriced and mega-tacky activities and adventures.  We took the boys to an arcade (Dave and Buster's, I think it's called) and overstimulated them to the max.  Hey!  We had a $50 credit from our package deal and we were darn well gonna use it.  Nothing like introducing 4 and 6 year olds to gambling nice and young, I say.  We played games for a solid 90 minutes (Charley on Skee-Ball?  Priceless.) and then got outta there.  They didn't make a nickel off our visit, but we had a blast.

Here are a series of photos from the trip.  Quite a few, actually.  Sorry!

 The view from our suite.  It was... sweet.

 Sam's expresses his true feeling about 'the man' telling him what constitutes 'dangerous'. 

 Anyone who knows Charley in even a small way, knows that allowing him near the falls is a recipe for 'heart-in-throat' parenting.  He looks so darn cute... but don't take your eyes off him for even one second.

Misty good fun.

So, got home yesterday, dropped Charley and Chris off and went straight to the walk-in clinic with Sam.  Yep, it wouldn't be late winter if Sam didn't get a rip-roaring case of bronchitis.  He sounds like a seal.  A phlegmy, barking seal.

March break hurrah!  Any suggestions on how to get through now 'til Sunday?  Already had them do yard work for 2 hours today.  Turned into a mud-pie factory, but at least they were happy.

Later!