Coco Key

Last week I bought a Groupon for half price admission for a family of four to Coco Key. It was a great price and the kids were looking forward to it all week. Even Elliot was walking around saying "Coco Key! Swim!" I packed lunch and tons of special treats and snacks and we were there right at opening time. Then we spent the next 5 hours there playing. Little E was pretty tired by his naptime. We kept him awake longer than usual and he was playing so hard. After lunch we let him take a nap on a modified bed. Ok so it was just a table with a towel on top of it, but we had to work with what we had. If I had been thinking I would have brought in a stroller. But, Elliot loves him some naptime, so he slept about 5o minutes, which for sleeping on a hard table, I thought was pretty good. I thought for sure waking up after such a short nap and being so tired we'd have to leave. But, he immediately wanted to go swimming again. So we did.

The boys could have played till they dinner I am pretty sure, but Paul & I were pooped. We came home and had showers and washed our hair with clarifying shampoo to wash out the chlorine that had to be 10 times the normal limit (which I think is a good thing judging by all the little kids there, if you know what I mean!), had an early dinner and everyone (including Paul & I) went to bed EARLY and slept HARD! I had to wake up Noah to go to school the next morning and after school he was really tired. When I picked up Elliot from school, his teacher said "Did he have a really busy weekend? He was really tired today!" Apparently Elliot barely ate any lunch and was just ready for naptime and slept longer than usual at nap.

I love me some Groupon! You should sign up for their daily emails and check them out. I"ve bought a handful of gems like this that were great deals. Had we paid full price it would have been a $60 trip and instead, it was only $30!