We had a nice time on our little get-away. It is only a little over an hour away. We could actually go there on a day trip at some point if we want. Camping was fun. The boys had been asking to do that for quite awhile, so it was great to watch them enjoy it. I personally was quite happy to take a nice long hot shower and put anti-itch cream on my mosquito bites when we got home. The weather was great. A bit hot at times, but very enjoyable. It ended up raining early this morning, so of course we had to pack up everything wet. We were home by 9:45 this morning (they are an hour ahead in Indiana). The tents are out drying now. The laundry mountain is huge, the kitchen is full of food that needs to be put away, but the memories made make it all worth it! So we unpacked the car, did the little things that needed to be done and all of us but Ryan crashed this afternoon with nice long naps. Ryan slept 12 hours last night so he was doing okay. He had to go to bed early because he was so worn out.

We spent Wednesday on the rides. Dane even joined in the fun on the kiddie rides and had a great time. Christian is right in the between stage where he finds the kiddie rides a bit boring, but he’s not quite tall enough to go on most of the big kid rides. His favorite was the log plume thing. He thought the paratrouper was pretty fun too. Ryan was tall enough to go on most rides. He even hopped on two BIG roller coasters with daddy! They had five there but a couple he wasn’t tall enough to get on and the other one we plain ran out of time before he got a chance to ride. The ride passes were good from 11-6 and we took a couple hours out to rest. Ryan has never been my big ride guy, so I was shocked to hear that he loved the coasters! I didn’t bother getting a ride pass since I have never been a huge ride fan.

Thursday was water day. We were going to go to the new water park that was at the campground. It is smaller than the one at the actual park, and looked like something all of the boys would enjoy. However, when we went to purchase our tickets we found out that Dane wasn’t tall enough to go in. So….that ideas was nixed and we headed over to the sandy beach and “Splash N’ Bash” at the big park. The beach is on a man made swimming area that pumps in nice cold filtered well water. (One of the original reasons we had decided to go to the campground park was because we heard the water was much warmer than the Indiana Beach Water Park. ) However it was quite warm out and we actually got used to the cold water after a bit. Ryan was also tall enough to go on the lazy river so he and Matt did that as well. We didn’t buy tickets to the actual big water slides since Ryan was the only one tall enough to do those. Anyway, the kids had a wonderful time playing in the sand and water. They of course were totally exhausted afterwards. Both Christian and Dane fell asleep on the tram ride back to the campground and Ryan hopped into bed pretty soon after we got back – he didn’t even eat dinner.

All right, so here are some pictures for you.

This evening we took Christian in to register for preschool and to meet his teacher. I really like his teacher from our first meeting tonight. His class consists of 7 BOYS and no girls. Should be interesting! I’m sure Christian will love it, the teacher on the other hand I am sure would like some girls. The class is quite large for only 7 little ones and the schedule looks outstanding. From my initial visit I would say this is the best preschool we have had so far! After registration we headed out for dinner at our favorite pizza place in the area.

The countdown is on! 4 more days until school starts and 5 more days until Ryan’s birthday! His birthday presents arrived today, so we’re all set in that department. They just need to get wrapped up and we’ll be good to go.

C-