Friday, December 7, 2012

Water park

We had a very interesting start to our Thanksgiving holiday this year. Instead of driving straight to Michael's parents' house (a 7 hour drive in good weather), we decided to drive 5 hours and stay at a hotel in Billings that had an indoor water park, including 2 three-story high water slides. We wanted to give our a kids a new experience and remind them that even though we don't let them buy ice cream from the ice cream truck or spend change on candy from a vending machine, we still love them and are pretty cool parents.

Michael had a lunch meeting and Annabelle had school on Tuesday, so we left early that afternoon. We didn't have great weather for driving and soon after we left, Sarah spit up quite a bit. Then 2 minutes before pulling up to the hotel, Jillian threw up pretty badly. She tends to have motion sickness. Not to mention it was way past all the kids bedtime. Needless to say, we were pretty exhausted when we got to the hotel. But as soon as Jillian got cleaned up, the kids were going crazy. They couldn't calm down. They were so excited to be at the hotel and go swimming in the morning. It took them forever to go to sleep and Annabelle was coughing all night due to a cold. Since we were all in the same room, nobody got a lot of sleep. The next morning, we ate some complimentary breakfast and got right to the pool. It was awesome!

Sarah wasn't quite sure what to make of it and Jillian had one tantrum, but overall, it was really fun. The slides were really cool. They wrapped around and twisted and even curved outside. Annabelle couldn't get enough of them. One of them was perfect for her. You rode a tube down the slide and you could go with 2 people or by yourself. Annabelle started by going with Michael, but was soon doing it by herself.

In addition to the slides, there was also a wave pool, hot tub, activity pool with a basketball hoop and lily pads to walk on, and a huge water park. I'm glad we decided to stop there. The 2 hour trip from Billings to my in-laws' house was great because everyone slept almost the whole time.

Sarah was crying because she was so tired when we got to the hotel that Michael put her in the corner. Don't worry, he only let her sit there long enough to get the picture.


Along the hallway as you walk from your hotel room to the pool, there was a video game with this gun and Michael decided we needed a picture of Annabelle holding the gun.
 




A view of the slides from the freeway.

1 comment:

Amber said...

That is so sweeeeet!