East Coast Trip Day 12: Pool Time and Tie Dye

Today was another relaxing, go at your own pace kind of day. It was just what we all needed.

Our big plans for the day were to take the kids to the pool and to a tie dye drop-in class.

Kerrie and I decided to read Looking for Alaska by John Greene on this trip. While the kids played in the pool, we laid in the sun and began reading.

The kids like the Mountain Peak Pool more than the Woodstone Leisure Pool we went to the first day. MPP has a diving board, and the kids decided to have a cannonball contest. Kerrie and I were asked to judge who had the best cannonball; the biggest splash being the winner.

Alora was up first. 

Adam second.

Third, Kylin.

Last, Andrew.

Alora and Adam then had a cannonball-off.

Who do you think won?

Back at our units, the girls asked Grandma Hoffman to do cross stitch with them.

 Alora is working on a napping kitten.

 Kylin is working on a tiger.

Alora is a little-bit-here, little-bit-there stitcher. Kylin has spent more time working on hers' and is beginning to see the tiger come together. I love that the girls have taken an interest in cross stitch.

The tie dye class was in the Ski Lodge on the mountain. We saw two woodchucks on the slope on our way into the building. There was a big debate as to whether they were beavers or ground hogs. The tie dye leader said they were woodchucks. Tourists = 0, Woodchucks = 1

Kerrie and I decided to tie dye windsocks and the rest of the group made t-shirts.

They could choose to make one spiral or two. I'm not even going to pretend to know who made two versus one.

My windsock ended up looking like a poodle. The gal helping us dye our items promised not to turn me in for dyeing my dog. Whew! That was a close one. ;)

Unbeknownst to us, the items have to stay in the bags for 1 or more weeks. Since we fly home in 3 days, Kerrie is taking ours home with her and will mail them to us later. I didn't think it would be worth the risk of squishing wet, dyed items in our suitcases. No fun, I know.

The rest of the evening was low key. Some of us worked on a puzzle, some of us watched tv, some of us read, and some of us caught up on a few things for work. Janice made pizza for dinner, which was yummy!

A pretty good thunderstorm came in tonight. We opened the door to listen to the rain fall for a bit. Once the door was closed, Alora said, "Ohhh, we can't hear the rain now." She is definitely a Pacific Northwestern girl.

Tomorrow should be another low key day. Our big plans are to take the kids to ride go-karts and perhaps fit in 9 holes of golf (for those of us playing our first game ever).