What a wonderful Sunday

Because I had the weekend off, and we stayed home to clean the garage yesterday, we took a drive today to have some fun. We got up and got dressed and out the door we were. The boys had no idea what we were going. We drove down to the Great Lakes Crossings mall. I am the only "shopper" in the family, but we knew there was a BIG arcade in this mall, with a few small rides. When we got to the mall, we went right to the arcade and got some tokens for games. The boys were in heaven. They did see the bumper cars, spinnie ride and roller coaster, but didn't ask about them.....yet. After playing some games, we found Adam who was playing his own "adult" shootem up games and the boys went on 2 of the 3 rides. They went on the spinnie thing first after doing rock, paper, scissors (Bryce won) to see who's ride they'd go on. Both boys had a great time. Then they did the roller coaster. I was trying to get them to put their hands up, which they did a few times, but not the whole ride.




























We then went to grab some lunch in the mall...wow were there many different choices. We walked thru the WHOLE mall. Bryce got very tired, so I carried him a few times until we found T.J. Max and took a cart, LOL. The boys picked out a medium size sucker at the big candy store. We found a pair of nice brown Church shorts for both boys and a swim suit for them both. While I was shopping for a new purse, the boys came up to me with daddy and were wearing cool golf hats. Since they go golfing so much in the summer, we bought them these cute hats.
















At one end of the mall, they had a race track or a stunt track set up, where you were the driver of the remote control car. They chose to do the race track, even daddy drove a car. Bryce needed some help, because he was turning it too much and kept crashing, but had a blast. Not really sure who won...either Drew or daddy.


























We also went into the HUGE bass pro shop store. The boys loved looking at the fish that were swimming around. They checked out lots of neat outdoor type things in there and even sat on some really huge boats, pretending and hoping that maybe 1 day we'd own one of them!!!














After shopping, we went back to the arcade to ride the bumper cars and use the rest of their tokens. A boy gave us another ride ticket, so I bought 2 more and they rode the roller coaster again as well.











Before we left the mall, we ate at the Rain Forest Cafe. The boys really enjoyed the atmosphere. It was really neat. We've been there at least once before, but it's been awhile. I talked Bryce into walking around a bit and letting me take a few pictures. Drew posted for a picture with the fish tank behind him (well thats where we were sitting, so he didn't have to move) he also snuggled with his daddy so I could take a great picture of him being goofie. We watched a few people order a volcano so we decided to try one for our desert also. A volcano has brownie pieces going up, with ice cream in the middle, topped with cool whip and drizzled with chocolate syrup. It also has a sparkler on it!! It was by far the coolest desert we've ever seen and possibly the best we'd ever had. It was very yummy!!

Bryce fell asleep on the way home, but Drew played his DS and was HYPER from the sugar in the desert!!! Once home, they showered, had finger nails cut. Drew finished his AR book, so he can take an AR test tomorrow and off to bed they went. We had a GREAT family day!! It was wonderful, although we did spend too much money. Oh well, how often do we get to go to that amazing mall. Good thing it's far enough away, or I'd be there more often.

I didn't get my 2 mile walk in outside today, but I will guarentee we all walked much more then 2 miles today!!! Back to my routine tomorrow, probably with Daisey this time.