January Family Night

Friday the Second of January, the Alexander crew came to Indy! This was a Christmas present from my parents. They got two rooms: One suite and an adjoining room for the eight of us. We stayed at the Holiday Inn on Michigan Street. It has an indoor water park attached to it. It was a lot of fun. Here is how the night transpired:

We met at the hotel and headed to the water park. That is when I realized how many kids were at the same hotel I was. Don’t get me wrong, kids are cool. Kids in mass quantities? Not so much. Haha* so0o0o0o0o0o I was completely freaked out by the kids, so we left. We headed to the pool inside the hotel.

While the fam played chicken in the pool, I went to meet my husband in the lobby. He put his stuff in our room and headed downstairs with us. When he took his jacket off, he had his arm covered in a tattoo sleeve! S0o0o0o0o classy! Haha* He’s so funny! My mom hated it, but my brothers both loved it. We actually ended up giving it to them because they liked it so much.

After the pool came the hot tub.. then ten minutes in the waterpark before it closed…. then out to din din. We walked to Texas Roadhouse because it was right across the street. When the twenty minute wait we expected [because the chick on the phone told us so] turned into 25 minutes, Dad was ready to leave. We hadn’t been there for twenty five seconds!

We all went to Buffalo Wild Wings instead. Mark, Evan, and Dad decided they had to try the Blazin sauce. Blazin, for those of you who don’t know, is the insanely hot (hottest) BBQ sause BW3’s carries. There is a great video to show reactions:

After dinner we all headed to the room to play games: Seinfield Scene It and Apples to Apples. We realized that Evan is a machine at Seinfield Scene It and Dad is a sore loser at Apples to Apples. We also found out we are a loud bunch. I think we already knew this, but it was reaffirmed when a security guard banged on our door and told us hooligans to settle down. Oh sheesh.

Then I tried to be nice and make a snack for my family. I heated up some tortilla chips in the microwave and started tidying the hotel room. THREE MINUTES LATER I remembered the chips. I opened the microwave (briefly) then closed it frantically! I started running around a freaking out because I just KNEW I was going to set off the smoke alarm!!! I was so nervous!!! Turns out, the alarm didn’t go off, but the chips were burnt to a crisp.

Overall it was a wonderful night with the family! I was so happy my Mom could schedule that for all of us! I really enjoy spending time with them! It also makes for great memories… and there’s always some sort of adventure mixed in….. lol