The Van and Vaughan
It’s Tuesday, this morning Finn and I woke up bright and early before everyone else and headed into Barrie to the Mazda Dealership Northwood Mazda to get the Air Conditioning in the van looked at. I decided just to wait at the dealer and Andrew and the kids stayed back at the resort. After about 2 hours in the waiting room, I was starting to worry! With labour costs at $90/hour, it was starting to add up in my head. Finally the service manager came out and told me what the problem was, “rotten and corroded wires leading to the A/C compressor” 30 minutes later, I was brought my key and the receipt with the cost of………………………… ZERO dollars and ZERO cents! I must say the buying that extended warranty on our van has really paid off for us!
It was after lunch by the time I got back to the resort, so we decided it was too late to take advantage of a certain amusement park in the area, so we opted for another family friendly experience….IKEA, located in Vaughan!
I so wish we had an IKEA closer to us, we had such a blast in the showroom. We had an early dinner, where else can you get a kids meal including milk, for $1.99? The kids sat at their own little area and really enjoyed it.
Another thing I’ve always been impressed about IKEA is that they are extremely baby friendly. The have a baby food warming area, tons of highchairs and even a “Babycare Washroom”- aka Nursing Room. Although I’ve never been one to shy away from Nursing in public, I like that IKEA has nice comfortable chairs in their baby stations. I was also impressed that they had complimentary diapers in there too!
Mackenzie was very excited to get a posable artist’s doll to help her with her drawing. We then grabbed some frozen yogurts after paying for our purchases. Of course I can’t call it that to Liam…or he won’t eat it…so we grabbed some “Icecreams” on the way out. Very tasty!
On the drive back to the resort I needed to check out the “Outlet” mall in Cookston. It’s a big indoor outlet mall, with quite a few stores, but also quite a few that had closed down.
It wasn’t very busy while we were there. Ciaran was getting pretty cranky by this point so Andrew decided to carry him in the BabyHawk. What is a BabyHawk, you ask? Well there has been lots of talk about them in the Baby Wearing Board. Here’s Andrew carrying Ciaran around in ours.
Ciaran stayed in the BabyHawk until Liam discovered the “Lego Store”! It was hilarious when he spotted it. He stood outside of it with the hugest grin on his face, clapping his hands! I found a sock store and picked up five pair to try and make some DIY Baby Legs for Finn. The instructions are posted on the Green Living Board
After finishing our shopping there, the kids spotted a play structure and had a blast, but boy was it HOT!
Once we got back to the resort it was another soak for the boys in the Jacuzzi (this is becoming a favorite of theirs) and a little chasing them around to get them down for the night. As I’m typing this, I’m not so sure where there is an available bed! LOL
