Staycation Wrap up

Vacation is over BOO!

We had a wonderful week off, but like all good things, our vacation has come to an end.

In Staycation Part 1, we had a running total of $213.

So to continue…

Wednesday’s plan

On Wednesday, we took the kids to Kings Island with another family that was also attending football camp.

We already have season passes for the year, so the only cost for the day was parking $10. (next year we will get a pass that includes parking, but that is another story altogether)

We also splurged on 3 small ice cream snacks for $12 total.

We ate lunch before we went to KI and packed a cooler with sandwiches for dinner.

Wednesday’s total was $22.

Thursday

Thursday was a less adventurous day.

After football camp, we came back to the house, ate lunch, and then packed an overnight bag for each of us.

We drove up to Columbus, OH with the plan to visit COSI on Friday.

Our only costs were dinner out $69. Yes, that feels like a lot to me, but my oldest must now order off the adult menu stoopid growing boys plus hubs and I splurged on one beer each.

Since we obviously weren’t going to sleep in our car, hubby got online at Hotwire Thursday am to find us a hotel near COSI.

We were able to book a 4 star hotel 5 minutes away from COSI in Downtown Columbus. It ended up being a Crowne Plaza hotel, complete with a swimming pool and literally within walking distance of pretty much anything we could want to do downtown.

Total cost for the hotel was $59 for the room and $21 for parking for the entire length of our stay.

Thursday’s total was $149.00

Friday

Friday was COSI day!

We got up in the morning and walked to a little diner for breakfast (Cost $33)

After Breakfast we drove over to COSI (we could have walked there and left the car at the hotel, but it was raining and we weren’t sure that little feet would have the energy to walk back after walking through the museum all day)

Parking at COSI cost $5 for the entire day.

Entrance fees to the museum for all four of us was $69. That included all exhibits as well as passes to see their IMAX movie Dolphins and Whales 3D boring boring boring

We did allow the boys to each choose something from the gift shop and of course, they went over our allotted budget of $10 apiece, but to be honest, it was so expensive in there, I don’t think they could have stuck to that budget very easily.

Gift shop total was $43.

We did eat dinner on our way home, Total cost was $39.

Friday’s total: $189.00

Saturday

Saturday we didn’t plan to do anything. We had a picnic to attend and I wanted to get some laundry, cleaning, bla bla bla done before the start of next week.

The kids had other ideas.

After our picnic, they hit hubby up to set up our tent in the backyard and have a campout.

Being the strict planners that we are.. we totally caved and set up the tent.

Hubby and the boys slept under the stars last night and I had our big bed ALL.TO.MYSELF.

Saturday’s total: $0

The total for the entire week ended up being: $573.00

$573 feels like a lot of money, but really when you compare it to a regular vacation it’s pretty cheap. If you figure an average hotel costs $89 or so dollars a night add that up for 6-7 nights and you are already over this total before you’ve even done anything or seen anything.