Holiday World

May 27-30, 2016

We got off to a rough start with Holiday World this year.  Trista and Elisha couldn't come down until Sunday because they had a funeral.  So Owen was supposed to ride down with us.  Then we ended up having to have him ride with Mom and Jim and we had to leave a half day later than we had planned because Dallas was puking for a day and a half before we left.  Ugh.  But once we finally got down there, things went much more smoothly than I figured they would with 6 kids and only 4 adults for the first half of the trip....

There are 2 toads and a lizard in here that the kids caught.

Ty was tall enough this year to ride everything but the Thunderbird (not that he would anyway...)

Owen was tall enough to ride everything.  And he did...

On Ellie's favorite ride...the Raging Rapids

Ellie got up the courage to ride the Howler with me this year.  After her first ride she was hooked and the smaller kids all rode it about a hundred times over two days.

Ellie and Jack with Paisley

Back at the campground... Thankfully, we were able to get this spot.  I screwed up and somehow managed to book a non-electric site, which we didn't find out about until Jim had the camper all set up and went to plug it in. GULP!  Luckily, they had one more electric site available and gave that one to us. WHEW!  I felt horrible, of course, but the campground people saved my skin!

Day Two...

At about 4:45 some storms were in the area, so they shut the water park down.  So here are all the kids in front of the non-functioning play area.

Back to the regular park for more rides before we had to leave...

Ellie talked us in to one last trip on the raging rapids.  I got SOAKED and had to ride all the way back to the campground with wet shorts.  YUCK.

Blowing bubbles and sunflower seed spittin'