Taking a Break!

I'm tired of unpacking. I'm tired of trying to figure out where to put stuff. So I quit. Well, I quit for 2 days. One of my break days was yesterday. I had planned to take the kids to the aquarium, but I got an email from a lady from church who asked if we wanted to go to the Zoo's Splash Park that day. Um... yes!

We met up with her and followed her there. It was not the way the GPS would have gone, so I'm sure we got there faster. The splash park was awesome! It was packed as well. It was also fully contained, so if I was missing a child, I at least knew they were all inside the fence. And I promptly lost most of the children. They had a marvelous time.

Delaney went down all 3 slides over and over and over. Callie hauled Rylee around and forced her to go on the slides till she cried. I took custody of Rylee's adventures after that. Delaney is at the bottom of the slide and Callie and Rylee are at the top here.

Callie is dragging Rylee through the sprayers. Rylee was less traumatized than I expected.

Rylee enjoyed this part a lot more.

Joshua told me he was bored after 30 minutes. Funny thing though, he was the last one to leave.

Marian was like a ghost. I'd see her and then she would disappear. She would just slip from one thing to another. Very hard to get pictures of her.

Delaney was skipping from the slide to go on it again. Did I mention she went on it over and over and over?! She did!

Joshua was a good brother. He played with Rylee and she got so mad at him for using "her" water. She's becoming quite the little tyrant!

Rylee, dancing in the spray. The water sprayed everywhere, so it was very dangerous territory to take the camera into!

After 2 hours of fun, it was time to head home, but we got distracted by the little play area they had. So we played for 10 minutes.

Then we got distracted by something else...

And we ended up at the petting zoo for a little while. The animals were lethargic. I didn't blame them 95 degrees and nasty humidity makes me lethargic too.

It also meant the animals let Rylee come and pet them and she felt brave.

Here's my gang. All hot and cranky and hungry and tired. It was time to head home!

Yep, distracted again!

Fortunately, the flamingos were right by the entrance and we made it out with only a minor meltdown by Delaney and grumping by Callie, who wanted to see more animals.

So, I survived our first encounter with going into the city. Since I got year passes, I expect we'll be going again. Today I have unpacked some more boxes and am condensing the "Aack!" stuff. I'll eventually have to deal with it, but not today!