Arizona - Day 5 & 6

Guess what??? MORE pool pictures!!

Ella really wanted to go over and play with the big girls in the other pool. Cirdan bought her a life jacket so she could. She loved it!

Water slide

We realized on the last day at the pool that they sell inflatable toys there for only a few dollars. DUH!!!

Mr. Turtle hat

Cool guys

love them

Jett kept doing this and he would walk around the pool like that. It was entertaining.

Ready...Set....

Go!

doing tricks

and falling after....

This unfortunately was our last day at the pool.

We wanted to do something fun so we took the kids to go see a movie, Hotel Transylvania. After dinner we went to Rainforest Cafe. Jett loved the animals! The elephants were his favorite.

There was a carousal at the mall. So we had to take a ride.

Last day in Az

Say goodbye to shorts Cannon. It will be a while before you can wear them again.

He had such cute summer clothes that were barely worn. So sad.

We had a little balcony out of our hotel with a table and chairs.

We walked past this fountain whenever we got on the elevator up to our room. Jett loved the water.

The kids were great and we only saw faces like this a few times.

Our side of the hotel

I took a picture of this house that we could see from the parking lot. I took the picture because the bellman was saying someone lives there for half a year. That will be me one of these years. :)

I love cactus. I told Kaylee I would pay her if she sat on one. She wouldn't go for it.

I booked the flight later in the afternoon so that we could have the morning to take our time and not have to rush. The hotel said that we had to check out at 11:00 so we had time to kill. We drove around Phoenix before heading to the airport. It was very strange to drive downtown, in the middle of a work day. There was hardly anyone down there. It was very different from Seattle. It was really like a ghost town. Cirdan and I were shocked!

We got to the airport with plenty of time. If anyone knows me...I am kind of high strung. I like to arrive at the airport and have time to sit and relax before feeling all the stresses on the airplane. The first security line we stood through took a while. It was super slow. A worker came through talking to us welcoming us back from Mexico. I was confused but thought he was kidding or something. We finally got up to the guy checking our ID and he told us that we were in the wrong security line! We had wasted so much time. Grrrr. We headed over to the correct one and went through the family security line which went really fast. As soon as we got to our gate Cirdan went to go grab some food. We sat across from the gate since there was a little table for the kids to sit at. Some time went by and a few of us had to use the restroom. Kaiya wanted to go to the store to get some Arizona things. I took the girls and we hung out at the stores for a bit. I thought we had about an hour or so still...while we walked back I saw Cirdan with Jett and he looked rushed to go to the bathroom. He looked panicked. I asked him what the problem was and he said we were boarding! Jett was poopy! I looked over at our gate and   I only saw the tail end of the people. I almost died!!! The girls and I grabbed our stuff, threw away the garbage and ran get on the plane. I had my ticket and knew I had someone else's. Thankfully I had Ella's. Kaylee and Kaiya stood out waiting for Cirdan while I told the guy we were late and missed the family check in and I have Cirdan and another kid that were also coming. He could tell I was freaking out inside and was nice enough to walk Ella, Cannon and I past all the people so we could get on the plane. He helped fold up the stroller and everything. So nice! There was only 3 rows of seats open and at the back of the plane. I grabbed one row for Cannon, Jett, Cirdan and I and then had Ella sit in the row behind and put her bag to save a seat for Kaiya and Kaylee. It was so close!! That is so not like me to be so rushed. I hated every second of it! I can tell you that it will never happen again. If Cirdan thought I was high strung before...he hasn't seen anything yet. Ha ha