Greetings from room 1130 of the Park Inn in Harrisburg, PA, where we are finishing up night two of the Club Carlson double dip.
In the last two days we’ve twisted pretzels, tie-died shirts, fed ducks, played mini-golf, swam in three different pools, had a “sophisticated” lunch at the Hotel Hershey, and spotted more horses and buggies than you could shake an Ezekiel at. While that has all been great fun, it’s not going to be my takeaway of the trip.
The Park Inn, while having it’s own mini-golf course (Awesome!), is certainly not fancy. It does, however, have a ballroom in the basement for meetings, wedding receptions, etc. Deal Niece spotted the ballroom and as we were headed up the stairs to the lobby announced that “this must be where Cinderella left her slipper”.
She has a point. In a hotel, through a kid’s eyes, anything is possible. Stuff we take for granted, like miniature bottles of shampoo or a “room service” dinner of PB&J take on much bigger space in the mind of an 8 year old than we give it credit.
So even if a full week’s vacation is out of the budget this year, I encourage you to take even one night using one of the hotel deals I’ve mentioned or even Priceline in your own backyard. Your kids will thank you for it…and maybe discover a little magic of their own.
So true! Glad she had a great time!
Thanks! It was great having a kid along who doesn’t travel as often as ours do. Ours are pretty jaded at this point!