EASTER MORNING

At about 3:15 AM Easter morning I was woken from a deep sleep by this alarm sound. I thought it was Brent's phone but as I woke up more I realized it was the fire alarm in the hotel. Of course my first instinct was that it was going off as a mistake. However in my sleepy state I was pretty freaked out when someone pounded on our door. I looked in the hall and people were evacuating and they told me there was smoke on our floor. So of course I am freaked out now and we get up the kids. I am trying to think of what I need and suddenly I realize I don't need anything, what I need is to get my kids out so off we went. Of course Stella was freaking out and I admit I was a little bit too, because at this point I didn't know what we were dealing with. We came outside to find six fire trucks, several ambulances, with more on the way. Turned out that one of the rooms on our floor had an air conditioning system that was smoking and after the front desk checked it out they decided to get us all up and out. We were only outside for about a half and hour and we made it back to bed. But our little middle of the morning adventure made us a bit sleepy. I had all of these grand plans to get to John and Valerie's house kind of early that next morning, but after that we all slept in pretty late.

When the girls did wake up that morning they found out that no fires or stays in far away hotels can keep away the Easter Bunny. It was fun because it was Vivi's first holiday that we were sharing with her for the second time, and it was delightful to see how much she has changed. She was excited for the baskets and knew what to do with the hidden eggs. The Easter Bunny left a note telling them to hunt for different colors. Stella's eggs were a bit harder to find and it was fun to watch her finally find some of the trickier hiding spots.

After our hunt we headed down for our hotel breakfast which was very tasty. Despite the middle of the night fire, I did really enjoy our hotel.