Our Weekend Away

One thing I have learned to enjoy is travelling. Such an odd thing to learn to enjoy right!? As a person who suffers from depression and anxiety any bit of travel brings out my anxiety. So, learning to love it has become a huge thing for me.

                               

This past weekend we decided to travel to England; Manchester way and have an adventure. Little did we know the adventure would start before we even got to the hotel. It took us nearly 9 hours of travel to get to the bloody hotel (should have been 4.5 hours). It was like a car park on the M6 for 4 hours. 4 HOURS!!! AHHHH…. Anyways. I was so excited to get out of the car and into our hotel room.

Little did we know it was only a double room so one bed; ONE BED! Ummm…. We have a kid and two adults. What the heck!? How are we all going to sleep in one bed with a toddler who is so little but damn does he know how to spread himself out to take up a bed. Well, I thought I would sleep on the floor the first night... yep not a good idea. Nope.  The next night I decided to listen to my husband and all share a bed… I was so ready for my own bed.

On to the actual adventure… We decided to go to the Trafford Centre for a little escapade. We went less than a year ago but Jaxson was only just starting to walk, so we thought he would enjoy a run around and explore the aquarium. WARNING to New Parents: DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT EVER LET YOUR CHILD OUT OF THE STROLLER IF YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR SANITY. LOL. My husband ended up running after Jaxson who decided to run straight for exit. Like holy shiz kid can we not look like a normal family looking at some damn fish!? HAHA!

The rest of the day went relatively smoother and my sanity was intact YAY!!

Day 2 was Chester Zoo. We have been here before but Jax was only around 8 months old and as he is in to animals we thought let’s go to a place that would have loads of animals! Parenting for the win! Ok not so much. Anyways, we were hoping for a casual day of looking at the animals with no fuss or tantrums. Wishful thinking!

Jaxson decided about 10 minutes into our peaceful (not so peaceful anymore) trip to the zoo that he wanted to walk around. Do you think we learned our lesson from the aquarium?! No, no we did not. We let Jax out to walk and oh does he run! I’m shouting, Justin is shouting, at this point Jax thinks it’s a game and is laughing hysterically. Oh what a peaceful day it was. HA! After a few minutes of chasing Jax down, we managed to get him to hold on to the stroller and walk like a big boy.

After the Zoo, momma needed a drink, but instead we all settled for a quiet night back at the hotel for a swim, food, and packing up to head back home. I love our little getaways and I hope one day Jax looks back and loves them too 😊