Holiday World

We took Hayden & Allie to Holiday World earlier this month.  We debated on whether or not to take Krissy and Austin, but Kevin assured me they would have more fun with their grandparents and Hayden & Allie would have more fun if it was just the two of them.  And he was right.  We picked a Monday thinking it wouldn't be too busy, and it wasn't packed, but we had to wait a bit for everything we wanted to ride.

We had a few "must ride" rides we wanted to do before we did the water park.  We rode old cars, the carousel, Raging Rapids then headed to Splashin' Safari.  We got to the park around 10am, and were there until 7pm.  We wanted to get our money's worth!

Here are a few pics from the rides before the water park.

Waiting in line to ride the old cars.

We have a picture similar to this two years ago when we took the kids.  I love it.

Me & Hayden waiting in line.

The boys rode in a car and the girls rode in another.

I held down the gas while Allie steered.

She got to ride her favorite carousel.

We spent a good portion of the day at the water park.  We sat in the lazy river a lot, rode three water slides (that scared Hayden to death - and each one we kept promising wouldn't be as scary - but he still screamed the entire way down), played in the wave pool, and in the big monsoon lagoon.  We ate lunch at the water park and spent almost $40 on 4 meals.  Food prices were pretty ridiculous.  We took advantage of the free drinks and sunscreen!

Hayden wanted his pic with the rhino on the way out of the water park.

We decided to ride the bumper cars to help us dry off, but made a pit stop at the ice cream stand.  We caught the end of a show too.  They were always a bit lame, but we were so entertained by the one we got to see (WOW: World of Wonder)!  Their performers were from all over the country and they were riding unicycles, break dancing, hanging from the ceiling doing some trapeze work - it was really neat.  I'd definitely go back and plan to watch a couple.  

Fountain picture because there were too many people in front of the Santa statue.

We let them both pick out a $5 gift from the gift shop.  I was rooting for a crazy hat, but Allie picked a pink butterfly necklace and Hayden picked a sword.

They both pooped out on the way home.  Allie's wearing her necklace and Hayden fell asleep holding his sword :)

It was a great day!  Can't wait to go back again next year!