Our Summer Mini Vacation

My husband and I took Skyler to Holiday World & Splashin' Safari this week.  It's about a 3.5 hour drive from our house to Santa Claus, Indiana.  We packed up the car with games, movies and books and headed out on Tuesday.  We arrived in the early afternoon and did the amusement park rides the first day.  Skyler's first roller coaster was The Voyage.  I rode in the car with him and Brent was behind us.  When we did that first drop I looked over at Skyler and thought he was going to pass out.  Climbing to the second drop, he looked at me and said "We are going again?" I told him to hang on thinking that he was scared.  Nope - he replied "This is AWESOME!"  After the initial drop on The Voyage, all bets were off.  He wanted to ride everything and was not afraid of anything.  Brent rode The Legend roller coaster with Skyler.  The first one beat me to death (still have the bruises to show for it).  When they came off the second coaster, Skyler came running over to me and said "Popaw screamed like a girl!"  It was too funny.  He tells everyone about that too.  I don't think my husband will live it down.
We spent the night in Jasper, Indiana which is about 30 minutes from the park. Skyler wanted Mexican food for dinner and we lucked out with a really nice restaurant right behind the hotel.  After dinner, we went back to the hotel and Skyler took advantage of the pool for a while.
On Wednesday we were headed to the water park area - Splashin' Safari. We stopped at a local store for some sunglasses for Skyler and right next door was a scrapbook store!  I couldn't believe it.  My husband (being the awesome husband) told me to go on in and he would take Skyler to get the sunglasses.  Yay me! Just walking in the door to a LSS is amazing.  There is no other smell like a scrapbook store with all of the paper.  Love it!  I ended up with a few things and a t-shirt (of course).  I checked out and went back out to the car but Brent sent me back in to get my friend a t-shirt too since we scrap together or shop together-lol. Then we were off to the water park.  I can't swim and I am not comfortable in the water so I carried the bag of dry clothes, towels and other items while following Brent and Skyler from ride to ride. My main job this day was taking pictures and relaxing in the sun.    The water park area has water roller coasters and lots of them.  They are a lot bigger than the typical water slide and you are usually in a raft type deal with 5 other people.  They rode just about everything in the water park area. They also did both wave pools and the lazy river.  By the time we were finished Skyler was exhausted.  He was asleep in the car after about 15 minutes of driving.  All in all - it was a really great mini vacation.  We could not have asked for better weather, the park was awesome, lines were short and we were together having a good time.  I am blessed.