Well, where should I start? Delighted to find out on Wednesday
that we had won a weekend away for the whole family at the beautiful 4*
Killashee House Hotel in Naaas, Co. Kildare, Ryan stayed at home to work in a kids
free zone and I took poor old nana as moral support, bet she wishes she had
stayed at home too.
The drive up form Cork was smooth sailing apart from the fact the
2 and 4 year old had to sit next to each other which of course meant that they
had to systematically try to kill each other resulting in me having to pull
over on the motorway 4 times to pull them apart.Finally arrived at our gorgeous fancy hotel and realized that
those poor people have no idea of the craziness that was about to ascend on
them.
- 5 minutes after having
arrived in our spacious room, Liam jumped off the couch only for his face to
meet the TV cabinet and bust his lip, blood everywhere! had to ring reception
for a first aider only to have a manager and our bellboy with a giant box of
equipment to our door within 1 minute of making the call, one big boy plaster
later, we can start to unpack
- Dinner that night ended
with Liam falling backwards off the dining room chair and then crying because
he was afraid that he had gotten our waiter Rob fired
- Breakfast next morning
in a very posh dining room was almost a success apart from Liam announcing from
across the room that he had a poo coming
- Swimming later that day
at the leisure club went well also, until that is when Liam removed his shorts
to announce this time that he had a wee coming
- We visited the Irish
National Stud and Japanese gardens which were absolutely beautiful and highly
recommend. We tagged along with a group on a guided tour until Liam got bored
of the stopping and talking so proceeded to heckle the tour guide with
'Boring.....Boring.....blah blah blah....' until we made a swift exist
- Happily we went to
McDonald's for our dinner that night, nothing can go wrong here surely.... well
you would normally be safe in thinking this however they dared to have the
wrong toy. You see, we already had a Poppa Smurf, now I did what every good Mom
would do and asked if they had any other toys but the answer was not what Liam
wanted to hear. I explained that I had spoken to the manager and that they only
had Poppa Smurfs in stock, 'what about the owner?' Liam asked as natural as
anything and paying me no more attention walked to the counter and spoke with
the manager again demanding to speak with the owner and wanting to know why
they only had Poppa Smurf when he had told him that he already had one!
- Once back at the hotel I
thought it would be safer to just stay in our room, and I can honestly say it
was a lovely evening, we got ice cream only a little on the carpet and fell
asleep watching the classic Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland for the first time
with the boys
- There was a Super Cars
Experience happening at the hotel on the Sunday where people had paid a lot of
money to drive either a Lamborghini, Corvette or a Ferrari, we stood back and
just watched while a nice young man was being coached on how to drive the white
Lamborghini until Liam got bored of watching and went right up and stuck his
head in the window and told him 'just put your foot down on the peddle' which wasn't such bad advice in retrospect
- Last morning (thank God)
almost there, at the checkout desk lovely lady asked 'how was your stay' before
I have a chance to reply, Liam quips up 'well you know those elevators you
have?' yes said the lady, 'well those elevators you have are not working
properly, we went in them yesterday and it just took us back to the same floor
every time' 'you need to get them checked out you know' (all my fault of
course) needless to say I just signed out thanked them for their wonderful
service and patience and promised never to go there again, with the kids anyway
;)
