Phoenix Trip 2015 - Part 2: At the Hote

We stayed in several different hotels on the trip down, then a really nice hotel right in downtown Phoenix. Both David and I were worried about how sleeping was going to go with two kids. For the weeks and months before we left it was like "Yay - Phoenix is going to be so awesome." And then the day before we left it was like "Hey, what about sleeping? Are they going to sleep? Maybe this isn't such a good idea after all." We brought our pack and play and Sue brought her pack and play so we had a bed for both of them. They both did surprisingly well! Most of the time we had Lydia set up in the bathroom, and Austin stuck in a corner of the room that we tried to keep separate from where we were sleeping. (In the picture below we moved two chairs to create a barrier - the pack and play is hidden behind them.) They both slept pretty good the whole time, although our favorite hotel was a cheap little hotel outside of the Lake Powell-ish area that had two separate rooms and a hallway for Austin to sleep in. Everyone slept awesome, even Austin only woke up once. 

David had to go to work every day, so the kids and I spent most of each morning hanging out at the Hotel and then met up with Grandma and Grandpa Peaden to go play in the afternoon. At the end of each day, we were all pretty wiped out and had some good lounge time back at our room. 

(Also, we held as a bribe a pair of minnie mouse pajamas because Lydia has this pair of minnie mouse pajama pants that are size 12 month and she still requests to wear them all the time. (We got them in a box of hand-me-downs and they were too small even then.) They are ridiculous but she loves them. So we held on to them and gave them to her one night when she was fighting bedtime and it worked like a charm.  Ah, bribery. A great parenting moment for us. 

Cal and Sue stayed at a different hotel than we did because it was much more expensive than other options, then on Friday night we packed up and moved over to the same hotel as them because David's work had stopped paying for our other one. It was fun to stay in the same hotel as them and I wish we had been able to make it work all week!