Weekend road trip to Delaware! Part 2.

We didn't have any concrete plans while we were visiting Ben's Grand-Mom other than actually going to Rehoboth beach, we've been to Delaware several times and always stayed close to "home". On the drive in I saw a sign for a community yard sale just a few blocks away. Cordelia and I were up early and after she finished her 1st breakfast ( a bowl) of cereal we headed to check out the yard sale. We spent a grand total of $1.50!

I wasn't looking for anything in particular but found these few gems-healthy toes-toe stretcher, twlight, chutes and ladders and a small flower saucer! I was most excited about the toe stretchers, which sounds a bit torturous but is apparently supposed to be really go for you. I see them advertised in my yoga magazine and they've caught my eye several times. They usually run around $30.00 but I was able to get these for a $1 and got the book and flower saucer for free. I had already read the twilight series (before it was all the rage) when I was pregnant with Cordelia. But I had borrowed the first two books and have always thought to add them to the last two books in the series I own.

Before we left to check out the garage sales Grand-Mom had promised eggs and bacon for breakfast. We were only gone about an hour but half way through Cordelia complains that she wants to leave before Ben eats all the eggs and bacon! She cracks me up.

Once breakfast was done we headed to the beach. On the way we stopped to check out a thrift store 

(I found some great jeans) and Ben and Cordelia noticed a little amusement place that had go karts. So Cordy and I hoped in one and Ben in another and we were off! So much fun!

 

 By the time we reached Rehoboth beach and found parking-it was suprisingly busy- it was lunch time so we stopped at a place called Nicola Pizza. The service was great and the food was yummy.

We were finally ready to head to the beach. It wasn't that warm out, though there were plenty of people in bathing suits so I figured we would just pull up our pants and just dip our feet in the sea. After a few minutes and Cordelia thoroughly enjoying it Ben suggested Cordy put her bathing suit on. I figured she'd be okay without it. Well I ate my words with the very next wave. Cordelia decided she didn't want to run away from it and she got soaked up to her waist!

Needless to say out came her bathing suit! And this is when I realized I hadn't put her change of clothes in our bag. DOH!

Cordelia sassing the waves!

After getting soaked it was times for ice cream and to head home for dinner. Cordelia had to travel home toga style with a towel wrapped around her waist, but she was thrilled that she got carried back to the car and didn't have to walk.

Cordelia was wiped out!

Once we got back we helped get dinner ready and relaxed while it cooked. We traveled home on Sunday after hanging out with Grand-Mom and Uncle Joe in the morning and enjoyed lunch with them. Thanks for having us!

 

 

Weekend road trip to Delaware! Part 1.

So we had made plans this past weekend to visit Ben's Grand-mom in Delaware. She is only a few hours away, so we loaded up the family in the Jeep and hit the road.

 

 It was a little crowded with 3 people, 2 dogs and 1 cat. But we made the best of it. We played "I spy" and the alphabet game. The alphabet game started off a little slow, it took us about 15 minutes to find the letter B but it was so fun! Cordelia was so excited with every letter we found. However, the novelty wore off by the time we got to F or maybe G!

  

 Juju wasn't so pleased riding in the Jeep, though she did a lot better this time compared to previous trips. She choose to do this half hanging off the seat thing, leaning on the bags that were on the floor.

 

 We finally made it. We hit a little traffic and with having to stop to get dinner it took a little longer than it could. Everyone was happy to arrive and get out of the Jeep!

Turning 30!

So this was not a day I've been looking forward to, but here it is, I turned 30 today(this was written on Saturday : )). I decided awhile ago that I should definitely celebrate this mile stone. My usual celebrations are pretty low key and laid back. For example I love nothing better than to order take out and have a transformer marathon for valentine's day. But I knew I would regret not making the effort to make this celebration stand out. And because Ben is fabulous he was on board.

I didn't have anything extravagant in mind so we decided to take a trip to Atlantic City. We live less than 2 hours away and I love the beach and there is just so much to see. We found a deal on-line for one of the higher end hotels that had its own spa. Well I was in desperate need of a pedicure and an eye brow wax so we left right after work (on Friday) so we could get down there in time for me to go and partake. I didn't get any pictures of the spa but had a wonderful experience. Then it was up to the hotel room to get ready for the night.

All ready for dinner and a good time!

 Once I was ready and we finally decided where we were going to eat we headed out for a walk on the boardwalk down to Caesar's the hotel/ casino where we decided we would eat. This was disastrous for 2 reasons:- 1) I was wearing heels and the "short" walk wasn't so short and 2) The wind was a menace. My hair got ruined...beyond belief. So after a few shed tears and an attempt to fix my hair I forgot about it and went on to enjoy the evening. I say a few tears but it may or may not have been a full scale melt down in the ladies bathroom...opps!  It's a good thing it was dark in the restaurant; that helps when you're having a bad hair evening!

The rest of the evening was perfect-we enjoyed our meal and I got to watch some of the Philly's baseball game out the corner of my eye as I ate (The restaurant had a bar section with sports playing). After the meal we headed to Tropicana another hotel/casino where they had a night club called boogie nights-1 requisite I had was I wanted to dance. Well  as we were walking around the casino I saw an advertisement that said that if we had eaten at a Tropicana restaurant we could get into the night club for free. I hate to pay for something that could be free so we ended up at a bar called Tango's. They had a lounge with sofas where we could relax but they were also playing some good music.

Well we weren't even there 5 minutes when they had a DJ set up. And this is when the real fun began. Ben and I love to people watch and there were a bunch of hilarious people in the bar that night. It began with a older, heavier guy trying to get down with the ladies from the few bachelorette parties that were there. And then add in a group of young guys and the next thing we know one of the guys was shirtless...needless to say endless entertainment.

We called it a night pretty early, shortly after midnight, as we knew it would be a fairly early morning. The deal we got included breakfast at the restaurant in the hotel. Ben enjoyed an omelet and I enjoyed granola and banana's. It was delicious. We had to do a few logistical moves with our car and in the process noticed that there was an imax 3d movie theater at the Tropicana so we purchased tickets and headed to enjoy the beach for awhile and get Ben's art project completed.

Enjoying breakfast

Yeah! The beach

Ben's art project

Shoes and shells!

After the movie-which was awesome- we headed back home to scoop up Cordelia and head out to dinner. We ended up at a local German restaurant. we had a wonderful time and as Cordelia and I declared in the car on the way home...It was THE BEST DAY EVER : )!

Cordy holding the flowers she cut for me with Mom-Mom

Enjoying dinner