Adventureland!

After our successful trip to Adventureland last year and good results at Arnold's Park in Okoboji, we were pretty excited to take P back to Adventureland this year.  We took Piper to daycare and headed out!  We were hoping that she would have a good time! We noticed at Arnold's Park the 'kid' rides were a little too boring for her, as it turns out she is just about exactly 42 inches to ride the big rides...and that is what she wanted to do! It is just hard for me to fathom my baby girl is riding the big rides and WANTS to!

Steve was willing to ride most of the rides with her.  I can't do spin-in-circles kind of rides anymore

So I rode on the kiddie rides with her! LOL! The three of us did the Raging River and the Log Ride....she LOVED them all!

Our friend Brandon was in town for the weekend and his family was enjoying the water park there. So we joined them....I'm sure I mentioned it last year, but the water park is surprisingly awesome! There is so much for all kids and adults to do! If you are questioning going....just do it!

Am I wrong to think she is just freaking adorable?

She LOVED the waterpark too, she did the little kid slides and even rode down one of the big slides with Steve. We did the lazy river, the splash pad area, the little kid pool, the wave pool and we even had some moments of just laying out.

We left the water park about 5:30 and tried out a few more rides. Brandon and Steve wanted to ride this stupid ride.

Then somehow they convinced me that I should ride it too. Dumb.

Last year when she rode the planes she wouldn't pull the handle to make it 'fly'...this year, she didn't care. She was ready and willing to go on even more rides after this.

However, Presley took a hard fall on her way out of the airplane ride.....skinned up, bleeding knees...it was time to leave. It was 7:30, we got there at 10 am....she did SO good and it sucked that our day ended this way.

 

Originally we were going to try to tent camp with Brandon and had my mom watch Piper overnight for us!  But after a long, late day, scraped up knees and Steve ended up having to work Friday morning so camping was moved to the back burner. Overall, it was a fun, successful day with the three of us!