From Mommy: We certainly saw some interesting architecture on our drive. The Dells is a tourist trap akin to a mini Las Vegas. This place here is a replica of the White House, except up-side-down.
Ooooh, there's our park! Check out the Trojan Horse!
Here's where we stayed for a couple of days. It was a long drive, we were hot, and ready to get out of the car and play!
The water park didn't open until later, so we started with the theme park. Can you make out Micah and the boys at the entrance?
The boys didn't meet the height requirement on most of the big coasters, so Micah and I tag-teamed riding them while the other took the boys on the kiddie stuff. It being the off-season, there were maybe 10 other people in the whole place. Most of the time the roller coasters carried ONLY Micah or me. It was a kind of unsettling feeling being the only one riding. Kinda creepy, really.
We had fun on the Tea Cups, Bumper Cars and Play Structures.
Then it was time to cool off in the indoor water park!
Ooooo! The place was HUGE. The pics don't adequately relate the scale of this stuff.
The pirate ship was very cool....
But Kai wasn't too sure about the slides on the other side. Daddy says, "It's OK! Daddy will catch you!"
After much coaching and prompting....
"I did it!!"
Solomon, the kid who hollers if water gets on his face in the tub, surprised us. At first he was very cautiously checking things out. Then this little girl squeezed past him as he was contemplating using the slide. With a quick, "Excuse me!" she ran past him and dove down the slide on her tummy, face first, giggling all the way down. It wasn't long after that that he was shooting down that slide Superman style. At the end of the ride he even followed the example of the little girl and wiped his face with his hands with a big smile, like water and him had been best buds all along. Gotta love peer pressure.
Emboldened by his success, he decided to go with Daddy down the biggest slide in the place. They climbed and climbed up about 8 stories with their 2-person intertube in tow. You can just barely make out Micah at the very top of the stares, I held my breath as I waited with Kai at the bottom. That's an awfully big slide for such a little guy...
...then there they came! Laughing and wiping their eyes!
"Let's go again, Daddy!!"
Kai did end up trying one of the milder adult slides but was unimpressed by the walls of water you slide under at different intervals along the way. And he was completely unimpressed with the amount of water involved with exiting the slide at the end.
He said, " I liked the part where I slided, but not the part where I drownded." So Daddy and I took turns taking Solly on the big slides and playing on the pirate ship with Kai, who eventually became comfortable with the littler slides, fountains and pools.
My guys and me.
OK. This slide to the left and below is the one. The slide I figured I could handle when I asked the lifeguard, "Which one is the fastest?" He pointed out which one it was with raised eyebrows as I nodded and headed that way. I emerged disoriented, half-drowned and bloody. Seriously. I needed the first-aid station for my gashed baby toe and the chunk missing out of my knee. Micah took stock of his sputtering, bloody wife, made sure she was going to live, then headed off to conquer the offending slide. He fared better than I did and, in fact, went 5 or 6 more times in a row to prove his dominance. I still have painful wounds and band-aids lining my bruised knee..
.
...but we had just the BEST time. The place was gorgeous and filled with little stone critters and beautiful murals. The resort was full of everything Greek and it was all very impressive. We met some real nice folks (a shout out to Terry, a sister in Christ whom we met in the gift shop) and just plain had a great time. If any of y'all are ever in the Wisconsin/Minnesota area....it's worth the trip.
We took our tired selves back to our room at the end of the day and ordered a movie, Evan Almighty, for our TV and munched our TV dinners. It was a great movie and our night wrapped up with 2 wiped-out little guys and 2 happy parents.
Ooooh, there's our park! Check out the Trojan Horse!
Here's where we stayed for a couple of days. It was a long drive, we were hot, and ready to get out of the car and play!
The water park didn't open until later, so we started with the theme park. Can you make out Micah and the boys at the entrance?
The boys didn't meet the height requirement on most of the big coasters, so Micah and I tag-teamed riding them while the other took the boys on the kiddie stuff. It being the off-season, there were maybe 10 other people in the whole place. Most of the time the roller coasters carried ONLY Micah or me. It was a kind of unsettling feeling being the only one riding. Kinda creepy, really.
We had fun on the Tea Cups, Bumper Cars and Play Structures.
Then it was time to cool off in the indoor water park!
Ooooo! The place was HUGE. The pics don't adequately relate the scale of this stuff.
The pirate ship was very cool....
But Kai wasn't too sure about the slides on the other side. Daddy says, "It's OK! Daddy will catch you!"
After much coaching and prompting....
"I did it!!"
Solomon, the kid who hollers if water gets on his face in the tub, surprised us. At first he was very cautiously checking things out. Then this little girl squeezed past him as he was contemplating using the slide. With a quick, "Excuse me!" she ran past him and dove down the slide on her tummy, face first, giggling all the way down. It wasn't long after that that he was shooting down that slide Superman style. At the end of the ride he even followed the example of the little girl and wiped his face with his hands with a big smile, like water and him had been best buds all along. Gotta love peer pressure.
Emboldened by his success, he decided to go with Daddy down the biggest slide in the place. They climbed and climbed up about 8 stories with their 2-person intertube in tow. You can just barely make out Micah at the very top of the stares, I held my breath as I waited with Kai at the bottom. That's an awfully big slide for such a little guy...
...then there they came! Laughing and wiping their eyes!
"Let's go again, Daddy!!"
Kai did end up trying one of the milder adult slides but was unimpressed by the walls of water you slide under at different intervals along the way. And he was completely unimpressed with the amount of water involved with exiting the slide at the end. He said, " I liked the part where I slided, but not the part where I drownded." So Daddy and I took turns taking Solly on the big slides and playing on the pirate ship with Kai, who eventually became comfortable with the littler slides, fountains and pools.
My guys and me.
OK. This slide to the left and below is the one. The slide I figured I could handle when I asked the lifeguard, "Which one is the fastest?" He pointed out which one it was with raised eyebrows as I nodded and headed that way. I emerged disoriented, half-drowned and bloody. Seriously. I needed the first-aid station for my gashed baby toe and the chunk missing out of my knee. Micah took stock of his sputtering, bloody wife, made sure she was going to live, then headed off to conquer the offending slide. He fared better than I did and, in fact, went 5 or 6 more times in a row to prove his dominance. I still have painful wounds and band-aids lining my bruised knee..
.
...but we had just the BEST time. The place was gorgeous and filled with little stone critters and beautiful murals. The resort was full of everything Greek and it was all very impressive. We met some real nice folks (a shout out to Terry, a sister in Christ whom we met in the gift shop) and just plain had a great time. If any of y'all are ever in the Wisconsin/Minnesota area....it's worth the trip.
We took our tired selves back to our room at the end of the day and ordered a movie, Evan Almighty, for our TV and munched our TV dinners. It was a great movie and our night wrapped up with 2 wiped-out little guys and 2 happy parents.
1 comment:
What a blast! I'm so jealous!! How wonderful that you basically had the place to yourselves - I don't see any other "bodies" around anywhere in your pictures.
So glad you are having such a great time, but I sure miss you!!!
Mom / Nana
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