Dad Makes Up for the Night Spent in the Van

We rolled into Saskatoon, Saskachewan around 1 pm on Wednesday.  Dave began the hotel availability check for the night.  He came back with one of those looks.  What???? Are there no rooms at the inn???  He replies, “No, they have rooms just no pool.”  --What a good man! 

The next hotel won the big prize!  Awesome pool area, hot tub and fantastic water slide!  We spent a few hours splashing around and judging between who could make the biggest splash coming out the slide. The life guard even let us do shoulder stand throws!!! (One more way you know you’re not in over- regulated New York.)

 Matthew and Dad kicking around in the pool.

The awesome waterslide!!!  aka:  The Swirling Blackhole!

Even Matthew took a turn on the big swirly slide!!!  Of course, Dad was holding him the whole time! :)

All smiles and beginning to "prune up"!!!

After we were all “prune-like”, we went back to the room while Dave, the hunter-provider, drove somewhere to bring back food for the starving.  All the kids were enjoying the Discovery Channel’s River Monster’s  when we realized Dave had been gone quite a while…longer then he should have been. 

 Well, those who know me well know what’s next….

…He’s dead in the ditch somewhere and I’m in Canada with 4 hungry children armed with only Doritoes, one MooTube and 3 cheese sticks to sustain us! J

He left around 4:30 so I was giving him until 6:30 pm before I went to the front desk to report a missing person.  He was lucky he came back at 6:15 with pizza and pasta in hand!  (Can you believe a 2-liter of soda costs $3 bucks!)

For those wondering, like me, where he was----His exact quote once inside the room was: “This city has terrible traffic patterns! In rush hour, it seems as though a green light is equivalent to a 4-way stop.”

Once again, Dave and the 3 “older’s”, as we call them, went back to the water extravaganza while Matt and I let our heads hit the pillow at 7:30 pm, not to rise until 7:30 am.  Aaaahhh!

Breakfast found us hungry.  The continental breakfast in the hotel was delicious with waffles, muffins, cereal and butter tarts.  That’s right.  You read correctly, butter tarts for breakfast.  I commented how I wished I had brought the camera to take a picture of Dave’s smile while eating his butter tart and Jon says, “That’s ok, mom, I can take a picture in my mind! -- CLICK! -- Oops, my thumb was in the way!” J  What a funny boy!