Freezing Fun =)

After Christmas we headed north to visit family outside of DC. What started as a fun get-away turned into an extremely rainy, splitting headache, longest wait in history for a table, incredibly moody 3 year old kind of day. We made the best of the terrible weather and ventured out to the Gaylord hotel. They had a really cool ice sculpture display using Disney characters. The rooms were constructed completely out of ice - walls, stairs, animals, slides. It was neat! They handed out heavy parkas for everyone to use - extra nice considering it was only 9 degrees in that tent! The best part of the whole thing was that we got to go for FREE! As we were in line waiting to purchase tickets a lady came up and offered us 8 tickets!! Part of her group had failed to show and she was generous enough to offer us the extras - saving us almost 300 bucks!

After leaving the Gaylord the skies cleared - Mike & Jennifer treated us to dinner at this greek tapas restaurant. FUN!

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After a quick stop at our house we went to Tennessee to see Great Memaw. Lillianne and Granddad explored every single closet in the house while we played games, ate, watched sports & relaxed. I am sad that I did not get one single picture the entire trip --- but it was the perfect end to our 2011 year!