**The next two paragraphs are just boring processing of what NOT to do**
Very exciting, but first I just need to vent/process a poor decision that we made. I wish I had more time to make a better decision. Gary's parents were able to come watch the boys and they are super easy to put to bed. Nya, on the other hand, needs to feed around 6 pm and then go to sleep. It is the one time I def. feed her to sleep. So, being that I assumed it would take longer to get down to the game, we were going to leave around 5:30pm so we decided to take her with us. I assumed that she would nap on the way. I assumed she would feed in the van before we went to the game. I hoped she would fall asleep in the Ergo. Wow. So wrong. Looking back, we should've stayed home until 6 pm, put her to bed, and then left. It only took us one hour to get from our front door to our seats.
'If you were given $150.00 for a date, and had to spend it all, what would you do?'
She loved the loud noise, the music (she clapped), the loud guy behind us etc. However, there was also a point in which she spit up on the guys jacket in front of us. I was mortified. M.O.R.T.I.F.I.E.D. Thankfully his wife was super okay with it and thought Nya was adorable. There was the whole walking around trying to find a quiet place to breastfeed. I ended up breastfeeding her in the Ergo while standing in the bathroom stall for 10 minutes. After the first period, she was not happy. So, not a very great date with Nya along. I have learned a lot. It has also freaked me out about the 16 hour flight to SE Asia!! I need to find which drugs will make her sleep!! The better option would've been to arrive 5 minutes late to the game. OR, I really need to put in the work to get her to take a bottle every day. Regardless, I'm so thankful for the tickets. It was the second hockey game I've ever been to and it was fun to go and do something different.
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One of my thoughts as I looked around was `Oh my goodness, each person has paid $70 to who knows what for a ticket. So my question for you is the following:
Go. Everyone has to answer. Just kidding :) But I'm curious!!!
Tickets to a play in Stratford (Ontario) or Toronto.
ReplyDeleteProbably go to a Canucks game :). Or get a hotel downtown
ReplyDeletefor the night and walk the seawall or the downtown streets. Yeah, probably that.
We would spend it at Bravo (Chilliwack's fine dining restaurant) Mike and I could spend $150 there way too easily.
ReplyDeleteI hear you on the baby/nursing issue - I never did the bottle thing with my babies and then got stuck not being able to go out until after 6:30/7 for the first year of their lives. I'm typically a home body so this was generally OK, but there are times when it made things tricky! The one thing I don't miss about breastfeeding.
A night at a nice hotel :)
ReplyDeleteis it bad that my first thought was forget the date...I'm going to the spa?! :)
ReplyDeleteProbably a nice dinner, get dressed up and even order dessert :)
Oh! or go to a concert/play
ReplyDeleteI would go out for a "day". A nice lunch and dinner with some glorious hours to chat in between:)
ReplyDeleteSide by side massages, or tickets to see a play
ReplyDeleteMaria V
pay for a milker to do chores and then go ANYWHERE for supper without the kids. Amywhere - as long as it means a night off work & a quiet meal :)
ReplyDeleteHmm...it would probably involve a hike, sushi and a show of sorts (either a movie or I'd really like to go to the VSO...though that would probably be a sacrifice for Alf :)
ReplyDeleteDepends on how much time we had, but if time was tighter, definitely a relaxed meal at a good restaurant (appys, drinks, dessert and all!)
ReplyDeleteTia
Probably a fancy dinner in Calgary or even a night in Banff without the children. Although we could easily blow that on a regular trip to Red Deer or Calgary so I would really have to plan it to make it stretch!
ReplyDeleteGary's answer: Nice meal in Vancouver and then tandem bike the seawall.
ReplyDeleteMy answer: Night away at a place like Harrison Hot Springs (the Resort and Spa). Guess we wouldn't have enough leftover for massages but maybe there would be a great deal?! Then we would do free stuff like going for walks and bike rides etc. And sleep. Straight through the night and past 6 am.
Hotel, room service and a good drink! Although $150 wouldnt near cover it over here.... its too expensive!
ReplyDeleteEither a nice dinner out, which would probably blow most of the $150, or, tickets to the VSO or a ballet and coffee or dinner after. But Stewart would much prefer a gourmet meal over the ballet. :)
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