On Sunday night we decided to take a very last minute trip up to Kalahari, supposedly the largest indoor water park in the US. Ryan had Monday and Tuesday off of school because we were originally going to go visit a practice for sale, but that had to be rescheduled. So on Sunday, when I found a great deal online (1/2 price!) we decided we were ready for a fun getaway.
We arrived Mon. afternoon, played in the park all day, finally convinced the boys to fall asleep around 8:30 (which is late for them), played all Tues and finally headed home around 5pm. Tate was so exhausted, he literally fell asleep in less than a minute after we strapped him into the car! We had a blast though and would definitely go back.
Grant said his favorite part was the wave pool. Tate also really loved it. We would take them out on inner tubes to float over the waves and then Grant would ride the waves in, spinning, almost crashing several times, and laughing like a crazy person. The kids also loved to float around and play in the shallow end and I enjoyed just being able to sit and relax in the warm water.
On Tues morning we were some of the first people at the park so Ryan and I took turns riding all the big slides, without having to wait in any lines. Unfortunately, their famous "roller coaster" waterslide wasn't working, so we never got to try it out.
We even let the kiddies try out some slides that seemed a little too big for them. Grant did fine and loved it, but here is the picture Ryan got of Tate after he finished. He ended up head first on his back and couldn't get up. He was screaming by the time I picked him up and stayed close to me for a while after that.
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| I felt like we were always eating on this trip, but I guess what are vacations for? |
Besides the wave pool we spent the most time at the kiddie play area which had tons of slides and places for the kids to climb on. They were in heaven!
Another one of the play areas.
After we got all dried up and ready to head home, we stopped by the indoor dry play area and ended up staying there for another couple of hours. Ryan and I both agreed it was the coolest play/gym area we had ever seen (and they have a really great one at the zoo here, but this beat that). It was so fun, Ryan and I took turns "helping" Tate get around so we could have an excuse to get up there and play. I'm pretty sure the attendant figured out what we were doing, but he was cool and didn't make us leave :)
Traveling with kids can be exhausting but overall this was a lot of fun and it was so nice to feel like we got away from the blah Ohio weather for a couple days!
