WaTeR PaRk FuN!!

This past weekend was super fun! Ry, J.J, Lil Man, myself and our friends with their two kids went to an indoor water park. It was spring break and we all wanted to do something fun without spending an astronomical amount of money. Our solution was to drive 45 minutes away and hit one of the indoor water parks. I was a little nervous about this at first because J.J and Lil Man don't know how to swim all that well and the thought of all those pools scared me a bit. However, I had nothing to fear the kids did GREAT!!! All eight of us had TONS of fun and it was so nice to get some to spend with our friends while the four kids were splashing around. Just so that you know, us adults did our fair share of splashing around in the pools and water slides too. I'm not lying when I tell you I took over 50 pictures. Don't worry, I'm not going to show you all of them just a few that I happen to like the most.

We got to the park a little after 12:30 in the afternoon on Friday. By 1:00 the kids were all in their suits and ready to hit the pool. We played in the park from 1:00 until 4:30 when we went back up to our room to get ready for our dinner out. We really had to talk the kids into getting out of the water to go and eat. After three and a half hours the adults were kind of ready for a break, but the kids just wanted to stay and play. However, the adults won out and we all went back to our hotel room and changed for dinner. By 6:30 we were back in our room and the kids were back in their suits ready to swim and go down the slides. We stayed in the park until 9:00 and then got the kids ready because we were all starting to get a lot sleepy.

We went back to our room, ordered pizza. Yeah, I know we had already eaten dinner but swimming that long makes a person hungry! After the pizza three out of the four kids crashed and were out like lights. The adults watched a movie on TV and sat their talking. Before we knew it all eight of us were out! Every single person in the hotel room (we all shared a family loft) was fast alseep by 11:30. We were all exhausted from all the swimming!

We were all starting to wake up by 8:30. Well all of us except for Lil Man, he was still out like a light! We needed to be down to eat breakfast, in our jammies (the kids thought this was great) by 9:30. After a very yummy all you can eat breakfast buffet we headed back to our room, changed into our suits yet again and went back to the park until 4:00 when it was time to check out of our room and the hotel.

It was a quick over night trip but everyone had a blast and we are already talking about doing it again next year. Now...are you ready for some pictures??? I know you are:)



Here is a picture of some of the lazy river. It was so nice just to sit in a tube in the nice warm water and just float. J.J loved pulling me along in my tube. The little stinker would go under the big stream just to get me wet...she loved it!
Here is a picture of the two "big" water slides that the park had. I had never been to a water park before and had no idea how fast you zipped down that thing!!! Boy was that fun. Ry and I went down a few times on the double tube and then Ry took Lil Man down a whole bunch, he loved it! J.J said she wanted nothing to do with going down something that went that fast. The rest of us thought it was great fun.
Lil Man zipping down the "famous" purple slide. This slide was all he was talking about. In a matter of 20 minutes he felt comfortable enough to go down the slide without his life jacket. He would hit the water, stand up, wipe his face and head to the end of the line for more!

J.J and Lil Man in the hot tub! We all loved the hot tub!!

J.J floating down the lazy river.

J.J and JenJen. I tell you it was a brilliant idea to wear mascara to the water park. NOT! Pardon the black smear running under my eyes.

Lil Man totally zonked out in the morning. I took this right before I woke him up. He was not so happy with me. Then he remembered where he was at and was all about getting up and going swimming.

This picture was taken at breakfast. Like I said we all ate breakfast in the hotel restaurant in our jammies and the kids thought that was the coolest thing. A few of you who I am friends with on FaceBook commented on you liking my hair color. I have to tell you that made me laugh hard. My hair in this picture had not been washed in a day and had been curly, wet, dry, curly, wet, and dry about ten times during the day. Not to mention I slept all night on wet hair. I got up in the morning and could not even get a brush through it because it was so tangled. So I gave up and just put a clip in. Thanks for the compliment, but it made me laugh...so not a good hair day at the water park!!

Daddy and J.J

Love, love, love this picture of Ry and J.J.

Here is one of the four of us. J.J and Lil Man wanted us all to be sitting on the alligator, but lets just say it's meant for only little bodies.

We all had a great time, but we all came back totally 100% exhausted and wore out. We did nothing but lay around Saturday when we got back. As a matter of fact, it's now Monday and I'm still just as tired. Swimming and playing in the water for a day and a half really takes it out of you. But it was so much fun and I'm so glad we all decided to go on a little get away