Back to life, back to reality

Tony has been literally begging to go to Atlantic City so a while back I booked a room.  At first I was going to stay home with the babies and let him go to relax and chill out, but in the end he wanted me to come and asked his parents to watch the kids.  They agreed so we prepared our 'list' of everything we'd need to send with them for their stay.  I started with packing up some clothes for them along with disposable diapers and wipes.  I know they prefer the 'sposies' to the cloth diapers we normally use and that's fine.  I totally understand.  We then got started on their menu.  We prepped a breakfast, lunch and dinner and a snack.  Breakfast consisted of eggs, pancakes, yogurt, and banana.   Lunch consisted of chicken, carrots and noodles along with some grapes and cheese.  Dinner was steak, carrots and noodles and cheese.  We also sent over some yogurt melts, cheese crackers that Tony made and cheerios.  Oh and they had milk.
We sent over their high chairs (space saver), 2 go-pods, a bag of toys and a bag of their night time things, glo-seahorse, musical giraffe and of course the sleep sheep.  Two of the pack n plays were already over there.  We drove the van over with their car seats and all of the stuff and I walked them over in the stroller with the toddler seats attached in case they wanted to take them for a walk.
After we reviewed their schedule and contents of the bags, etc. we went back home to pick up the dog and begin the drive.  We originally forgot about the dog - he's like our fourth forgotten child that just gets in the way.  Sometimes I feel really bad for him, but he does get all of the leftovers after each of the babies meals, so he's happy.  Fat and happy!  We thought it was really pressing our luck to ask if they could look after the dog too, so we made quick plans to board him at a new place Tony had heard of that was basically along the way.  We got to the place and if I didn't know any better, I would have checked in myself.  The place was/is gorgeous!  The name is The Green Leaf Pet Resort & Spa.  This place actually has a pool that you can go swimming with your dog.  We didn't, but really cool that you can!
Anyways so we dropped Buddrick off and continued our journey to AC.  We arrived, checked in and played a little Pai Gow.  We then went to dinner at Bobby Flay Steak.  I thought that having a reservation meant that you didn't have to wait 30-45 minutes for a table, but since we didn't have anywhere else to be, we waiting (somewhat patiently).  I won't go into great detail about what we ate, but I'll say it was good, not great, but good.  We finished eating around 9:45pm and ended up going back upstairs where I got ready for bed and fell asleep.  Tony watched tv for a little while and then went back downstairs to the casino. 
The next morning, we slept in until about 10am, requested late check out and got ready and went to the buffet for breakfast.  Again, we had to wait.  Not sure why it was so busy, but we waited for at least 30 minutes.  Afterwards, we checked out and headed over to Revel - the new place.  It was really nice, very cool atmosphere and the best part - smoke free!  We ended up playing pai gow poker and won back some of the money we lost at Borgata. 
We got back to the 'burg around 6pm and slowly got everything packed back up and heard all about how active the babies are and how they wore a path in the carpet in the living room from doing laps around the floor from the kitchen through the dining room and into the living room.  They loved all of the dancing/singing animal that they had and got to see all of them, yes all of them 'dance' to the music.  So sweet to see even little Tony swaying to the music.   We missed the babies so much, but relished the time to ourselves and ability to sleep in for a change.  But all good things come to an end and that's ok.  So until the next time, it's back to life, back to reality.