Ok, so I know that I'm only a few months behind on this post however, when we surprised the kids with this trip, I started it out knowing I wanted to write a blog post on it. Then, life happened and so now you have it!
A few weeks before Memorial Day (yep, the one in May...), Ray and I plotted out a surprise trip for the kids. We had never been and had heard so many wonderful reviews about it. Thus, we made the reservations and when Saturday of Memorial Day hit, we loaded the kids up in the car and said we are leaving town for the night. They begged and pleaded and wanted to know where we were going...our only response was "You'll have to wait and see!" It started off right away with excitement when we hit Kenderick and got stopped for the parade. Apparently, they were having some big festival, complete with a parade. Lucky for us, we got there just as the parade was finishing and found ourselves going through the parade route as soon as they opened the highway. It felt like we were part of the parade! The kids thought it was pretty cool.
Then it was off to Kellogg! We stopped in St. Maries for a yummy Zip's lunch (I love Zip's) and to use the bathroom...very important with three kids. As we drove into Kellogg, the kids started getting really excited, especially when we showed them the water slides on the outside of the building. Then, we told them we weren't staying there, we were staying at the motel across the street. You can only imagine what our car sounded like after that announcement! Anyway, we pulled into the Silver Mountain Lodge, got checked into our "mini apartment" and headed to the water park for a little play time before church.
The boys were in awe of the body surfing and went straight for that...I think Nicholas lived on that thing the whole time we were there!
Seanie trying out bodysurfing!
Nicholas and his first run with bodysurfing!
Elli went for the water structure
After a couple of hours playing at the water park it was time to head back to the room for some snacks and cleanup before church. The kids were excited to get back from church to explore around our room, have pizzas, and then invade the firepits that are located around the resort for s'mores. It was a great night and we had the perfect location...right outside our room was the play area and the entrance to the water park, and the pizza place was right around the corner.
A little chess and some play time while we were waiting for the pizza
Obviously after that, they were pretty wore out!
The next day was 8 hours of waterpark fun...(not sure what happened to the camera on these ones)
And we even had to have a time out...somebody learned that you just can't run to the Lily Pad toddler area without telling Mom & Dad. Wanna talk about a panic attack! Elli was playing on the slides in the water structure, I was standing in the middle of the water structure and the body surfing area watching Nicholas & Elli, Ray and Sean had just left for the lazy river and I turned around to wave to Nicholas, letting him know where I was, when I turned back around to check on Elli, she wasn't there! Phew, we found her happily playing on the slides in the toddler area. Needless to say, there were tears when Mommy took her back to the towels for a time out.
After a full day of playing, and ice cream sundaes at McDonalds, it was time to head home....with the promise we would come back someday!
