Coles Family: Mini Vacation

We took the girls to Toronto for a mini-vacation. It was Alivia's first family vacation and it didn't turn out so well! We checked in and had some lunch then I had to go write an exam and Brandon and the girls TRIED to nap lol. Then my buddy Carm came and had dinner with us in the hotel restaurant, it was terrible. I asked if it was real chicken for the burger, he said yep, breast meat, it was grey processed :( It was soo expensive too. Then we got all ready to go swimming, in what was suppose to be a heated pool. One of the reasons I booked that hotel. So the water was freezing, we couldn't get in past our ankles. There was a hot tub too, of course too hot for livia so we took turns holding her with our feet in or sitting right in. There was some pre-teen girls there and alaina wanted to swim and play with them so badly. Everytime they got too hot in the whirlpool, they would jump in the icebox. We were able to sit in the hot tub, hold alaina over in the cold pool so she could kick her feet with the kids as she called them. Alaina introduced us all to them too, this is daddy right there, mommy, sister livia and this is laina right here, it was sooo cute. After we went back to our room and my other buddy Timeka and her kids came to play. Alaina had a blast! Then it was time to settle in, all in one room for the first time. It took 30mins to get Alaina to sleep. Then 30mins after that the fire alarm went off! We grabbed as much as we could, got down stairs and people in the lobby said its a false alarm and were heading back to their rooms. 15mins after settling back in, the phone rang, it was reception saying we had to vacate the building. So we grabbed the kids out of bed and went outside. We waited for the fire department to clear the building and I asked if there was really a fire, if so we were heading home, it was 11:30pm at this time. He said no so back to bed we went. About 1:30am Alaina woke screaming, I think brandon moved and startled her, which in turn woke alivia. 30mins later everyone was back to sleep. 7am, the fire alarm went off again! We grabbed the kids again (each time we were able to grab more stuff!) and part way down the hall, people were saying false alarm, well we heard that before, so we called down, they said get out until the fire dept. comes and clears it. So we did. It was false again. They thought it was someone smoking causing the problems. So of course Alaina couldn't go back to sleep, she seen it was daylight. Alivia napped a bit longer. Then we went to get our complimentary breakfast. What a joke. It was an omelette, sausage, toast and homefries. Sounds good right. Sausage was a hotdog, toast was so cold and dry it was like eating breadcrumbs, egg was cold and rubbery. Homefries were cold but edible. I was soo glad I packed a goody bag. We couldn't wait to check out, and I almost booked 2 nights. We headed over to the woodbine mall by the college I went to. It has a build in fairground. It's really neat. We met up with another buddy of mine, Marco whom I hadn't seen in 6 years! He has a baby girl Tayah, 2.5 weeks older than Alivia. Alaina really enjoyed the rides. We headed home after that and both kids were out not even 2 minutes in the car. We woke them up in london to eat supper. So it was the worst hotel stay ever but good visiting was done!