The Clarke Chronicles

Friday, November 22, 2013

The Crayola Factory, and beyond!

Im pleased to say we are all back safe and sound from our holiday in the North!
The kiddos had a great time (as did the parentals I might add!)

We managed to split the trip in 2 parts again on the way home (thanks to the "The Blacks" and "The Fulks" for letting a few weary travelers eat and rest on our way back to Nashville!)

So this trip was really centered around the Crayola Factory experience from the beginning. Oliver had seen it on one of his shows many months ago and mentioned he would like to go there.
4 floors of exhausting crayon goodness!!
We spent a good 6 hours there - suffice to say WE ALL slept well that night!

We ended the day opening presents from Grandma, Grandad and Auntie Kelly "in England!"
They loved all their gifts, and Oliver wants to wear his glow in the dark PJ's tomorrow night when his friends have a sleepover!

I will let the pictures do the talking ...

Here we melted crayons and turned them into shapes - like dinosaurs, cars and rings!

This machine let us melt crayons and create "works of art!"

A giant jungle jim with animals to colour!

Here we made shapes filled with different coloured sand!

Airbrushing with Crayola washable marker pens :)

PRESENTS FROM ENGLAND!!!!

LOVED his personalized set of stationary!!

OMG .... C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-E!!!!

We made him close his eyes, then counted down from 5 before we blasted him party poppers!!!

Of course he just had to have a go!

What a great birthday!!

Wish you all could have been here

xxxx

Monday, November 18, 2013

Hershey Park November 2013

As we finish out day 2 of our Hershey adventure, I thought I would take a minute to share the highlights of our trip thus far!

As you all know we had a few mechanical issues before we left, however thanks to the wonderful world of Enterprise Rent-a-car, and our flexible friend Mr. Mastercard, we managed to get a 2013 Hyundai Hybrid for the journey!

I think the issue with the Jetta and the Cruiser threw Rachel and I off our usually on-the-ball game, because we somehow managed to forget not only Oliver's bag of clothes, but a few other essentials as well!
Oh well, after getting re-aquainted with our flexible friend again we quickly remedied those problems!!

The weather up here is surprisingly mild - the highest temps we have seen is 61F - about 16C. Despite it being overcast, we have managed to avoid the rain which is nice.

We bought the kids a North Face each using Daddy's discount with Zappos.com through Jetsuite -- we all feel so posh!

Our accommodations here at the Blue Green resort started off a tad disappointing being that we were right next to the train tracks. As much as I enjoy experiencing everything Hershey has to offer (including how they take their delivery of sugar and such), being woken at 3am to the sound of said delivery doesn't do it for me!
So after a chat with the manager downstairs, we were swiftly relocated to a much quieter building where we all managed to get a sound nights sleep!!