This post is picture heavy, you’ve been warned…
After I came back home from Crossfit Qualicum Beach (you can read all about that here), I had a quick breakfast and since the sun decided to make an appearance so we jumped on the occasion and made our way down to the beach with our sand pails and shovels and a skittish Rina who wasn’t enthused at all at the amount of small crabs on the beach. The tide was on its way out which meant we had about 2 km of sandbar to play with.
We came back to the condo once the clouds reappeared (it got chilly fast) for a quick lunch and finishing up a load of laundry. Ben had found a flyer at the laundromat about a place in Nanaimo called Jumping Jiminy’s. It’s an indoor playground centre. We decided to forgo the girls’ nap this afternoon to take them there. That place was the absolute bomb! I’m not sure who got the most fun out of that place, the little people or the big people enjoying supervising the whole thing! There are many huge infrastructures to climb, obstacles to avoid and crawl through and many big and fast slides. Ben and I had just as much fun getting the girls through the obstacle course as I’m sure they had.
I know this is extra blurry, but look at how much fun Daddy is having!
Ben referred to the place as the American Ninja Warrior parcour for kids. We all had so much fun and after an hour and a half, the grown ups were getting tired and sweaty. We had to bribe the girls with ice cream in order to leave the place and even with that, Rina was in tears and didn’t want to go 😦
Once we were done at the mandatory DQ pit stop, we decided to do some shopping in Nanaimo. We went to Country Club Centre where Ben was looking for a baseball hat to cover his noggin from the sun. He found one that was quite fetching in my opinion:
We went to Home Depot (of course! Now that we’re home owners, that’s our new hangout spot with Costco! 😉 ) where I bought the Better Living Foam Dispenser.
Lucas had that soap pump at CFQC this morning. I asked him where he had gotten it from and I bought 3 for the house (kitchen and both bathrooms). I had been looking for something similar for a while and I’m glad I found them for such a great price (about $16 each). After much discussion, Ben decided to purchase a new shower head (I don’t think it will get the suds out of my hair very well, but we’ll see… I have a thick head of hair and I’m picky about my shower heads). After all that fun grown-up time, we headed back to the condo to enjoy the pool and hot tub with the girls before dinner. All I have to say is that by 1730, I was ready to call it a day. I had been up for 12 hrs at that point and I was getting hungry. We packed the girls up and headed back for dinner where Béa thought this was proper table manners:
Baby feet for dinner it is!
We crammed a lot into today and we have another busy day tomorrow, a friend of ours is getting married! Let’s just hope the girls are on their best behaviour! As for Saturday, we are planning to take the girls to the Sand Sculpting Competition and we will also attempt mini golf with them! I will finish with 2 pictures I took yesterday evening:
Mandatory sunset in the clouds
Deer (or reindeer as Rina called it) just chill in’ outside our window. Rina kept calling for Santa to come on over after she saw the “reindeer”!
Ramblings of a Babymama 