One Last Getaway

This past weekend, we snuck in one last little getaway before baby comes. It kind of lined itself up because we tagged along to Aleksy's business trip, where he had to stay a couple nights away for his program he's doing through work.

We left bright and early Sunday morning and they had a room available for us early at 11am! After parking valet for a totally reasonable and not overpriced at all $50 a night, we got this cute small person to wheel our luggage to our room. 

We unloaded and prepared to head over to Centre Island to Centreville - the amusement park for the day!

We were right beside the ferry to the island that this was basically right at the exit of our hotel... so convenient! It was only about $20 for the 3 of us to get on the boat and Logan was very excited for the boat ride!

There's no admission to the park (other than the ferry cost I guess). so you can wander around for free, but to go on the rides, there was the option of either buying a day pass or tickets. We opted for the tickets which put us back about $60.

What we weren't expecting is for the rides to be so independent... way different than disney! These little cars were not adult friendly, so we just gave Logan's tickets and let him ride by himself! This felt like our toddler officially became a child.

After riding the cars by himself, he asked to go on the boat ride. So we remembered seeing these boats and got him on there thinking he'd be really excited then he quickly realized there was another boat right bsdie him going way faster and flipping back and forth and he tried to get our attention by saying "I want that boat!", "I don't want this one, yuck!". This was apparently quite the disappointment because Logan wanted "the crazy boat".

Apparently the rollercoaster was also on the wish list for Logan. As long as its really fast, Logan is game. I asked after all these rides if they were scary and he assured me they are not.

Sometimes, I'm awesomely prepared and remember to make PB & J sandwiches first thing in the morning before leaving for Toronto so we can have a picnic! With our picky eater, it's basically the only way I can be sure something that Logan likes is available.

Mid day lunch break here, fighting seagulls and ducks at our feet and all.

And the moment Logan was waiting for. Crazy boat! this things goes back and forth and up and down, all the while spinning you around, what 2 year old wouldn't love it?

And me watching with my 34.5 week baby bump from the sidelines and somehow having a ton of fun just watching my kid go on rides. I don't know when I became so old and lame!

When we bought our tickets, the lady informed me that the only pregnancy friendly rides were the antique cars and the carousel. As I remember from disney, the carousel is way to dizzy for my unbalanced body, so antique cars it was!

Even this "pregnancy friendly" ride I thought may bump my baby out!

Logan proceeded to go on the carousel and ferris wheel before heading home - lots of rides in a day! Then fell asleep on the way back to the ferry while we indulged in Beavertails!

Logan had the best hotel view - and shared his view with his Peppa pig friends who all faced out toward the water. He even ate his chicken fried rice looking out the window!

Then Monday morning was a Mommy and Logan day while Aleksy was in his classes. We started our Monday like this and it was glorious. A little cartoons before hitting the hotel pool where Logan swam for a whole 2 minutes then asked to go back to the room.

After our swim, we headed out int the big city to check things out. We watched the boats coming and going for a bit from this spot, which entertained Logan temporarily, but otherwise it wasn't so kid-friendly - just fast cars, fast moving business people and no parks! Oh and of course me being crazy paranoid about Logan being beside water because my running abilities are currently non existent.

After our exploration we had nap time. Both of us.

When Aleksy got back, it was supper time! I scoped out a spot in advance - the old spaghetti factory, which seemed great because 1) it was the closest to our hotel at about a 15 min walk and 2) Logan loves his noodles. It was way better than I thought! The decor was awesome with basically an indoor carousel and Logan's plain noodles with butter and parm and vanilla ice cream needs were perfectly met. Plus my chicken parmi with spaghetti was awesome and it came with bread, salad and dessert!

This telephone booth was right beside us and Logan wanted to go in again and again. He also informed us that it wasn't a telephone. Cell phones are the only phones for 2 year olds.

It was a Cars movie night this night. Complete with candies and snacks.

And the next morning, Logan was a bit more enthusiastic about the swim. Probably because their was no one else there and I let him get in and out as much as he wanted to get new toys from the bins. We went right at the perfect time because just as he was asking to leave, about 30 old ladies came in for aquafit!

I think Logan prefers the shallow water that he doesn't have to be held the whole time in!

 After our swim, we headed out to the little green "park" (which Logan informed me wasn't a park, because playground makes a park) for a picnic lunch. More PB & J. I thought it'd be awesome to have lunch on top of this oversized picnic table, but Logan didn't agree - "I want down Mommy".

Logan's picnic spot of choice - the pink muskoka chair by the water, right beside 2 business people having lunch. I bet they were thrilled with my wiggly PB smelling man!

The Tuesday was our check out from the hotel day and we asked if we could get a late check out, but they could only stretch it to 2pm. So Logan and I had 3 hours of no home before Aleksy was done school. We went ack to the isalnd becasue it's the only palce downtown Torotno that I could see that was kid-friendly! Plus it was only $11 for Logan and I to take the ferry and the farm part of Centreville was free.

Logan was so tired from skipping nap. He played in the stones, half looked at the animals and then asked to go on all the rides, so I had to escape and go to the green space instead!

He was much happier playing on the swings and running back and forth until it was time to go back to the boat.

Heading back to the boat, that was it for this kid! He fell asleep just before we got on the boat to get back and meet Aleksy.

Then we grabbed the car and headed back to London town where Logan was all too excited to sleep in his own bed after sharing a double bed with Aleksy for the 2 nights!