Ella & Kate: Holiday World

Last weekend we went to Indiana to have Kate's 3 month pictures taken. We thought it would be fun to take Ella to Holiday World too (well really I thought it would be fun and Pete went along with it!). It was a beautiful day and the park wasn't too crowded and our wait for the rides was not very long at all. I have not been to Holiday World for many, many years and Pete has never been. We were both impressed at the number of rides that Ella could ride and the cleanliness of the park. Also the added bonus of free drinks and sunscreen! We went on the rides in the morning and after lunch we headed to the water park. I hadn't been to Holiday World since they had the water park - it was so much bigger than we had expected. Ella had a blast - 2 wave pools, a "sprinkler" area, a 1 foot pool with slides for young kids, and a lazy river (I think that they actually had 2 but Ella was too small to stay in the tube so it wasn't so lazy for us trying keep her in the tube - we opted not to check out the other!). These were just the things that toddlers could do - they had a ton of slides that Pete and I would love to go on if we ever go without kids! And the best part of it was that kids 2 and under are free! Mom got discounted tickets for us from a friend so it was a relatively inexpensive day as far as amusement parks go!

Yep, I took her on this ride - this is not my year for Mother of the Year. I don't remember it being this fast or "scary". And you only had to be 36" to ride - I thought that it would be fine. She cried for Daddy!