In true Dirty Dancing spirit we headed up to Mohonk Mountain House in the Catskills for a long easter weekend of family fun. This place was hilarious, we had a great time and enjoyed the spa bit alot, but there was definitely some wierd american stuff going on. I was waiting for the fat owner to come round the corner and say 'so I finally got you up here on my mountain' but alas he didn't.
It was very much a family fun place - as much (good) food as you can eat, lots of beautiful walks, hiking and scenery and activities galore. One of my favourite ones was something we didn't partake in ourselves but caught some final glimpses. Seems everyone had made their very own instruments during the session which culminated in this wonderful procession..
The weekend was seriously nice though. The place is surrounded by thousands of acres of woodland and is set upon a gorgeous lake. Ruby and Al had fun on the swings (maybe Al had more fun than Ruby) and she got quite attached to the Koi in the pond. Still can't stop saying hello koi.
We did lots of nice walks and it felt like a huge break to get out of our time square madness. Plus we were v lucky with the weather.
We did participate in a few of the activities though - including the bag-making session in anticipation of the crazy easter egg hunt organised (by age group very carefully) for Easter Sunday. I don't have any pictures of the actual hunt. I was making sure Ruby didn't get trampled on by hundreds of other children and at least picked up one chocolate while competitive dad Al was on the hunt for the top prize! He didn't get it.
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