Well...
Here it is about 5 hours until I was expected home actually.
We got home about midnight last night because when I got back to the cabin in the Dells, my mom informed me that the teenage girl next door who was watching my animals...couldn't capture my 7yr. old dd's cat and he'd been out over 24 hours.
Well, he means the world to dd and I just couldn't risk anything bad happening to him. I wouldn't have been able to sleep or enjoyed a half day at the pool not knowing his where abouts.
Within 5 minutes of pulling into the drive...I had him. Praise the Lord.
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Soooo....we went to a really nifty place in the dells--my mom rented us a cabin on the once lake Delevan, until it was just recently washed away by the flooding. Each of us four sisters and our families got our own room.
My husband is in Iraq---so I had my 2 little girls, 7 and 2, and they of course chose the room with the chunky wood bunk bed. Which had a pull out sleeper in the loveseat...which led to my back burning & on fire the next day...so I slept with my 2 yr. old on the bottom bunk...with her swinging limbs bashing me in the face every so often...anything was better than that sleeper.
The hotel had a bus we called that came to pick us up when ever we wanted to go to the hotel resort/golf club areas. They had 3 indoor water parks. It was massive. They also had an arcade and indoor play land.
We were SUPPOSED to check out the 3rd water park today but I left early because of the cat...
We went down one water slide were you climb all these flights of stairs and you get on this tube that accomodates plenty of people and so one of my sister's opted to go down with me and my 2 girls--holding on to my oldest and me holding on to my youngest and whoosh---down we went and it was pitch black!
We yelled at her and the other one's husband for not warning us it was completely black. They had a good laugh. My oldest was scared but my 2 year old started up the stairs to do it again.
There were these other kid slides that didn't really empty out...the slide just came down and straightened out into it's own pool so I would go down, then my sister's 3 year old, then my 2 year old, and then my 7 year old. And we did this over and over and over....
And frankly my legs are weak from all the stair climbing. But it was SOO worth it. My girls and my sister's kids (5 under 7yrs., one infant, and one teen-2 other teens unable to attend) enjoyed ourselves thoroughly.
Each sister had a night to make dinner. I cooked 3 of my birds last night and it was well recieved.
We took a tour of Lost Canyon--horse drawn wagon ride and it was loads of fun. We had a young man as our guide that took my family's ribbing very well. One funny part was going through this tight canyon, where at times you could touch the rock if you wanted to and under this one over hang there was this thin stick that was wedged in vertically and he stops the wagon and says, "If you look over to your right under this ledge...you will see a small stick...that stick is the only thing holding up this massive wall of rock."
I said, "Yooouuu put it there." And he said, no, but he knew who did. Another time we pass another wagon and he's making small talk with the driver Jake...and he says to Jake, I like when we have these small talks...and Jake proceeds to go the other direction and so I yell, "Jake, iiiii'lll miiiiiiss yooooouu!" Laughter ensues.
At any rate it was a fun trip.
***BUT one of the major events that happened was on Sat. night at the water park when I went into a bathroom stahl with my 2 year old...noticed a pouch...opened it up found a small straw and this elaborately folded paper inside---and of course I opened it to inspect and a white powder was inside.
So I stuck it in my bra before my 2 year old noticed and we finished getting our suits on and I cupped it in my hand and took it to a plain clothes woman (after asking a lifeguard) who took it and said she'd call security.
And I made the drop off without my kids knowing anything was up. And I was disappointed the pouch wasn't full of money with no id. Because that's what I was hoping for. ha ha.
The arcade was fun because in the crawl area with nets and slides...they have these air guns that are big animals that shoot out baseball sized foam balls out of their mouths and a beaver that shoots out of his hind end.
My bro-in-law who's a police officer had fun shooting me multiple times in the face and head. I would try to retaliate but he'd duck for cover. And then I'd remember, oh, I better look around and make sure I know where our kids are...and it would never fail...he'd remerge and clobber me again.
Then I saw a little girl both nights actually, who had trouble manuevering the guns--they were big--big as her really---so I'd aim the guns at unsuspecting people and she'd put the balls in and push the fire button. Our main targets were unsuspecting dads and teenage boys. Us girls just looked too innocent to be the ones firing on them so we had dad's pointing fingers at us and teenage boys who were in their own wars with their friends smile big because they were caught off guard...which left them wide open and vulnerable. na na.
It was quite some time.
And there MAY have been kids that ate too much junk, didn't get enough sleep, were overly tired, whiney REALLY whiney at times, and there may have been one kid that puked...not including the infant.
Loads and loads of fun--I'd recommend this place to anyone in the area.
http://www.wildernessresort.com/resort-waterparks/resort-waterparks.html
me,
g
Here it is about 5 hours until I was expected home actually.
We got home about midnight last night because when I got back to the cabin in the Dells, my mom informed me that the teenage girl next door who was watching my animals...couldn't capture my 7yr. old dd's cat and he'd been out over 24 hours.
Well, he means the world to dd and I just couldn't risk anything bad happening to him. I wouldn't have been able to sleep or enjoyed a half day at the pool not knowing his where abouts.
Within 5 minutes of pulling into the drive...I had him. Praise the Lord.
_____________________________________
Soooo....we went to a really nifty place in the dells--my mom rented us a cabin on the once lake Delevan, until it was just recently washed away by the flooding. Each of us four sisters and our families got our own room.
My husband is in Iraq---so I had my 2 little girls, 7 and 2, and they of course chose the room with the chunky wood bunk bed. Which had a pull out sleeper in the loveseat...which led to my back burning & on fire the next day...so I slept with my 2 yr. old on the bottom bunk...with her swinging limbs bashing me in the face every so often...anything was better than that sleeper.
The hotel had a bus we called that came to pick us up when ever we wanted to go to the hotel resort/golf club areas. They had 3 indoor water parks. It was massive. They also had an arcade and indoor play land.
We were SUPPOSED to check out the 3rd water park today but I left early because of the cat...
We went down one water slide were you climb all these flights of stairs and you get on this tube that accomodates plenty of people and so one of my sister's opted to go down with me and my 2 girls--holding on to my oldest and me holding on to my youngest and whoosh---down we went and it was pitch black!
We yelled at her and the other one's husband for not warning us it was completely black. They had a good laugh. My oldest was scared but my 2 year old started up the stairs to do it again.
There were these other kid slides that didn't really empty out...the slide just came down and straightened out into it's own pool so I would go down, then my sister's 3 year old, then my 2 year old, and then my 7 year old. And we did this over and over and over....
And frankly my legs are weak from all the stair climbing. But it was SOO worth it. My girls and my sister's kids (5 under 7yrs., one infant, and one teen-2 other teens unable to attend) enjoyed ourselves thoroughly.
Each sister had a night to make dinner. I cooked 3 of my birds last night and it was well recieved.
We took a tour of Lost Canyon--horse drawn wagon ride and it was loads of fun. We had a young man as our guide that took my family's ribbing very well. One funny part was going through this tight canyon, where at times you could touch the rock if you wanted to and under this one over hang there was this thin stick that was wedged in vertically and he stops the wagon and says, "If you look over to your right under this ledge...you will see a small stick...that stick is the only thing holding up this massive wall of rock."
I said, "Yooouuu put it there." And he said, no, but he knew who did. Another time we pass another wagon and he's making small talk with the driver Jake...and he says to Jake, I like when we have these small talks...and Jake proceeds to go the other direction and so I yell, "Jake, iiiii'lll miiiiiiss yooooouu!" Laughter ensues.
At any rate it was a fun trip.
***BUT one of the major events that happened was on Sat. night at the water park when I went into a bathroom stahl with my 2 year old...noticed a pouch...opened it up found a small straw and this elaborately folded paper inside---and of course I opened it to inspect and a white powder was inside.
So I stuck it in my bra before my 2 year old noticed and we finished getting our suits on and I cupped it in my hand and took it to a plain clothes woman (after asking a lifeguard) who took it and said she'd call security.
And I made the drop off without my kids knowing anything was up. And I was disappointed the pouch wasn't full of money with no id. Because that's what I was hoping for. ha ha.
The arcade was fun because in the crawl area with nets and slides...they have these air guns that are big animals that shoot out baseball sized foam balls out of their mouths and a beaver that shoots out of his hind end.
My bro-in-law who's a police officer had fun shooting me multiple times in the face and head. I would try to retaliate but he'd duck for cover. And then I'd remember, oh, I better look around and make sure I know where our kids are...and it would never fail...he'd remerge and clobber me again.
Then I saw a little girl both nights actually, who had trouble manuevering the guns--they were big--big as her really---so I'd aim the guns at unsuspecting people and she'd put the balls in and push the fire button. Our main targets were unsuspecting dads and teenage boys. Us girls just looked too innocent to be the ones firing on them so we had dad's pointing fingers at us and teenage boys who were in their own wars with their friends smile big because they were caught off guard...which left them wide open and vulnerable. na na.
It was quite some time.
And there MAY have been kids that ate too much junk, didn't get enough sleep, were overly tired, whiney REALLY whiney at times, and there may have been one kid that puked...not including the infant.
Loads and loads of fun--I'd recommend this place to anyone in the area.
http://www.wildernessresort.com/resort-waterparks/resort-waterparks.html
me,
g
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