East Coast Trip Day 6: Our First Day at Massanutten

It felt so good to sleep in a king size bed last night! I forget how much I love having room to spread out and get all cozy for a good nights' sleep until I have to sleep in a comfortable, but smaller bed. In proper Crone family fashion, I did not wake up until about 9:30am.

Our day started slowly, which was perfect. There was time to relax, have a cup of coffee (or two), catch up on Facebook, and blogs before we got moving for the day.

The units we are in have a hallway behind an exterior door. When we get up, we prop the unit doors open so we can come and go between the units as we please. It's kind of fun to get up and pop next door for coffee, or a snack or just to visit.

Dad's door

Our door

Janice was at her family reunion over the weekend and drove to Massanutten today. She arrived around 11am. Dad and Janice each had some business calls to make before they were able to really start relaxing.

Our big plans for the day was to take the kids swimming at one of the pools. Janice, Dad, the girls and I went to the Woodstone Leisure Pool just down the street from our units. Kerrie's family joined us not long after we got there. As we were heading to the car to go, Kylin says to me,

K: Are our cousins going to be there?
M: Yes
K: Oh good, it was going to be boring otherwise.

Thanks kid. ;)

The girls did have to manage for a bit on their own in the pool as the adults manned their lounge chair posts and hoped for a little more sunshine to break through the cloud cover.

Once the boys arrived, it was full fun ahead!

Andrew towing Alora, Kylin and Adam swimming to jump on, too.

You likely hear Kerrie telling us about a conversation at Cross Fit this morning. :) 

I tried to get a picture of the girls in the pool, but Alora was not cooperating or holding still long enough to get a decent picture of the two of them. So, this is the best of what I got.

Our pool stay was about 2 hours and it went by really fast!

Another trip to the store was next. Janice, Adam, Alora, Kylin and I piled in her car and headed to the trusty Food Lion and Rite Aid for more provisions. It's been like a game figuring out what food we left back at the house in Severna Park. :)

The best game ever. "Poke" your cousin. They play this game a lot!

The rest of the Barney family greeted us when we returned from our excursion. The kids played Skip-Bo, Apples to Apples, and Truth or Dare to pass the time before and after our taco salad dinner.

Before we all turned in for the night, we wanted to sit down and check out what everyone wanted to do of the many, many, many activity choices here.

Look at that motley crew!

Great face, Kylin! It might rival Andrew's weevil face.

Todd "loving" on Adam. :) It was great to hear their laughter!

Kerrie and I decided it would be easiest to create a table of our activities on the computer. I made a table in Word, which isn't as anal retentive as if I had made an Excel spreadsheet, right? We took a lot of head shaking and teasing about this. There is a lot of information to keep track of. Such as:

Activity, day, location, extension/advanced reservation needed, who wants to do it, and the cost.

Making an organized table is completely appropriate in this situation. It is a Common Core State Standard to know and apply appropriate tools for the situation. I'm practicing what I teach. ;)

As we were working on the schedule, I noticed some darkness on the ceiling of our kitchen. Luckily, we have 2 very tall guys here who could easily touch it. Yup, it was wet. Dad had to call a few different numbers to get a hold of someone to come look at it...at 9 something on a Monday night. Close to 10pm a security man stopped in. He went to get someone else to look at it and then they said they will be back at 8:30 in the morning.

Tomorrow will include a maintenance visit, getting activity cards, mini golf and an evening Zumba class for Kerrie and I. Oh, and I'm setting an alarm to get up at 7:30am. :)