Sometimes you need to move out of your comfort zone. For H that means breaking the mold and love of home parties for the kids. For me and The Fifth Element it means going to a place like Chuck E. Cheese where we have to interact with lots of people, deal with various types of spaces, colors, loud sounds and music and a whole mash-up of multiple whirling activities all at once for hours on end. Heaven for The Comedian getting her birthday party wish, but harder to navigate for The Fifth Element and I and our SPD issues.
Feeling perfectly at home even with a large jersey-wearing mouse.
Ticket Blaster fun!
As if that wasn’t enough we spent most of Sunday trekking through the Gaylord National hotel at the National Harbor for a taste of a Potomac Christmas.
Ice, Ice Baby
The big ice tree at the center of ICE! at the Gaylord National hotel at National Harbor.
9 degrees inside but that’s cool. We braved it, the girls went down the ice slides numerous times and we roamed the streets of an ICE! New York City. It was lots of chilly, early Christmas fun! This year’s theme is ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.
Leaving the ICE! exhibit it closes with a nativity scene.
Creating memories, holiday fun and her first gingerbread house with Gingy! Then it was time for a “snowfall” in the hotel’s atrium. A great way to close out the day and a really wonderful, fun but a bit of a sensory overload (for some of us) weekend. I would do it all again in a heartbeat!
*Thank you to the Gaylord National hotel & Christmas on the Potomac for inviting us to take part in such a fun, relaxed media event that our whole family enjoyed.
loved seeing you and hanging out with your gorgeous family at ICE!
Thanks! It was so much fun! And really good to see you guys as well!