We spent final weekend at The Homestead on a household journey celebrating the top of the college 12 months. The boys had SO a lot enjoyable! Right here’s the recap.
The Homestead: Our Household Getaway!
A part of our targets for this 12 months are to journey extra with the boys. They LOVE to journey already and are at all times asking when our subsequent journey is developing. As I discussed in this post, our technique is to make use of bank card factors to guide these journeys so our out-of-pocket prices are solely meals.
So we booked a visit to The Homestead (which is owned by Omni) to have a good time the top of college. It’s situated slightly below 2 hours from Charlottesville in Scorching Springs, VA. Thomas and I truly went collectively again in 2016 so this was our second go to and the primary with youngsters.
This was the primary time since we went to Great Wolf Lodge when Birch was an toddler that all of us 4 shared a resort room! Birch is previous the napping / gained’t-sleep-if-he-can-see-you stage. And whereas our room was tremendous crowded with toys and beds, it was additionally very cozy and enjoyable.
Ninja Mazen
The primary evening Mazen and I shared one mattress – which was a double – and I felt like I used to be in a ninja struggle all the evening. I obtained elbowed within the head a number of occasions! We each slept horribly. The second evening we obtained a rollaway cot for him and that went MUCH higher. Birch slept in his Lotus bed.
Afternoon Tea
After we checked in, we had tea and cookies within the Nice Corridor, complimentary on the home.
Whereas I sipped tea, Thomas obtained the boys lollys on the sweet retailer (Birch ate his over the course of all the weekend one lick at a time!)
Allegany Springs Swimming pools
After which we hit the pool! The forecast wasn’t nice for Saturday, and so we didn’t know if this could be our solely pool day. (Spoiler alert: it wasn’t!)
The Allegany Springs pool advanced is nice with a sandbox, a child pool, a center pool (that’s supposedly heated however wasn’t heat), a pleasant scorching tub, a HUGE lush lazy river, and three water slides (2 large, 1 toddler sized). The workers on the pool was tremendous good, and the meals and drinks menu was nice too. A number of choices! They even introduced round free popsicles to everybody every afternoon.
The Center Pool
The Lazy River
I LOVE lazy rivers!!! One thing about being transferring retains my mind completely happy, and I most likely went across the loop 25 occasions in a row. (There have been truly an excellent quantity of individuals – I simply took this pic within the morning!)
Dinner at Woody’s
After showers, we ate exterior on the extra informal restaurant known as Woody’s. We had two pizzas and a salad.
Deep Dish Cookie
For dessert – this deep dish cookie with ice cream on prime was AMAZING!!
Our dinner was subsequent to the croquet garden, which additionally had a fireplace pit and corn gap. Mazen made pals instantly and each boys did plenty of taking part in and operating whereas we completed up dinner.
The Arcade
In fact we needed to go to the arcade which was spacious. Birch raced vehicles and Mazen performed ice hockey and bowling.
Film Theater
There’s additionally a full-size movie show with two showings every evening: early for teenagers and later for teenagers. Whereas I put Birch to mattress, Thomas and Mazen went to look at Jumanji.
Saturday Morning
On Saturday morning we obtained a light-weight breakfast on the market after which hit up the indoor pool. It was fairly chilly exterior.
Lunch at Jefferson’s
We had a lunch at Jefferson’s (on the informal facet) with soup and a wedge salad. Birch ate plenty of scrumptious rolls with honey butter!
Mini Golf
After lunch, we took somewhat relaxation after which headed out for mini golf. We had been dissatisfied that it was $15 an grownup and $10 a child, particularly once we had been already paying a $40/day resort cost. I don’t suppose it value something final time we had been there. However we already had the boys’ hopes up (as I’m positive all of the mother and father do) so we performed and had fun.
Pool Time
We had anticipated it to rain all day so we had been so completely happy when the solar got here out! Again to the pool! (Loving this new hat I simply obtained for the pool / seaside.)
Formal Evening
Each mother’s gotta make her youngsters placed on collared shirts for formal evening, amiright?!
Dinner at Jefferson’s
We went again to Jefferson’s for dinner, this time on the attractive outside patio.
Mazen devoured this lobster mac and cheese!
I liked my herby hen with kale, goat cheese, and chimichurri potatoes.
And we ended the meal with chocolate hazelnut mousse!
Guess who I bumped into!
Mazen was excused to go play corn gap and was noticed by none aside from Fannetastic Anne!! Anne and I textual content nearly each day and didn’t know one another was at The Homestead! I used to be already in my pajamas placing Birch down when Anne texted me to say she was with Thomas and Mazen. So Thomas and I switched locations and Anne and I obtained to catch up for a bit.
Sunday Morning
We had a late check-out on Sunday, however we caught round to play within the pool longer because it was considerably hotter!
The boys went to the driving vary whereas Birch and I packed up the room and went for somewhat promenade across the property. (We additionally fell in mud – yay.)
The spotlight of the pool morning was first a frog within the lazy river after which a SNAKE!!!!!!! Fortunately I used to be out of the water on the time, however we heard some girls screaming and thought somebody was damage. Seems this man went for a swim. The lifeguards used a web to get him out, but it surely took an excellent quarter-hour!
Pool Meals
We had pool meals for lunch. Mazen liked these nachos, and I had a tempeh and watermelon wrap (within the again).
We swam and floated with Anne and her fam for a bit earlier than heading dwelling to Cville.
These boys are already asking once we can return to The Homestead! I might positively suggest the summer season months as a result of the pool was the spotlight of our keep. There’s heaps to see and do on the property (in and out), and there’s much more mountain climbing across the city. And for those who’re going to The Homestead with out youngsters – positively take a look at the grownup pool + spa!!
