{"id":288,"date":"2015-03-29T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/29\/vacation-at-home"},"modified":"2015-03-29T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T21:36:00","slug":"vacation-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2015\/03\/29\/vacation-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation at home"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week Ben took a couple days off so we could relax and spend more time together.\u00a0 We decided to pretend we were visiting Denver, so we would do things we normally ignore.<\/p>\n

Thursday Amanda came to stay with the boys so we could have 24 hours to ourselves.\u00a0 We shopped Cherry Creek, went to the Mark Mothersbaugh art exhibit, had dinner at the Cheesecake Factory, strolled 16th Street Mall, then went to our hotel for a long night’s sleep.\u00a0 The next morning we had breakfast at DJ Berkley’s cafe in the Highlands.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Sam missed us, but Jack bemoaned our return, a testament to Amanda’s tremendous babysitting skills.\u00a0 All day I heard “too bad Amanda had to go home [pout pout].”<\/p>\n

We cheered them up with a visit to the gym.\u00a0 Yes, we go there four or five times a week already, but this time we went swimming!\u00a0 The indoor pool there is really great, with slides and whirlpools<\/a> and jungle gyms<\/a>.\u00a0 Jack went completely bonkers loving it.\u00a0 Sam was not so keen, but eventually sat in the kid area and splashed a little.\u00a0 Friday night was regular dinner for the boys, take-out Indian food for us, and a movie in the basement theater after bedtimes.<\/p>\n

Saturday we took the family to the Denver Aquarium.\u00a0 It’s one of those places we never bothered to visit even though it’s right there downtown.\u00a0 It was nice.\u00a0 A bit overpriced, a bit schlocky over science (you can tell it’s owned by a restaurant corporation now rather education based).\u00a0 But we saw a lot of fish, some fiesty otters, a regal tiger, and a mermaid performance I’m embarrassed to admit that I loved.\u00a0 We didn’t spend more than an hour there before we felt done.\u00a0 Just as well since Sam was feeling the effects of a skipped nap.<\/p>\n

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Lunch at McDonalds, because why not, if we are on vacation?\u00a0 The boys took long naps while I finished sewing a shirt.<\/p>\n

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Later we had another babysitter come so we could enjoy one last dinner out together.\u00a0 We planned to stay local, but then I found a place in Boulder that looked good.\u00a0 We visit so infrequently now, I’m always astonished at how much has changed and how much has stayed the same over all this time.\u00a0 We briefly browsed Pearl Street, only to find the restaurant, Centro, had a 40 minute wait.\u00a0 Yeesh.\u00a0 By stroke of luck we found another place<\/a> a few doors down that could seat us right away and had a similar menu.\u00a0 The tacos really hit the spot for me, exactly what I was looking for (I blame Jason’s Mexico vacation).<\/p>\n

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(snuggled watching TV together, waiting for the sitter)
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So that’s it, our little “stay-cation” at the media types like to call it.\u00a0 Fun to try new things while spending time together.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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