This winter has gone on and on and on.....Josh and I decided that it would be fun to take the kids to a waterpark somewhere. We looked into just a hotel in Des Moines - but they were full. Luckily we found a small cabin at Lake Rathbun at Honeycreek Resort. They have a great indoor swimming area that is very age appropriate. Weeks later Grayson still talks about it :)
There are two pools, one very shallow with slide off a pirate ship, the other deeper with floating lily pads to jump across. They also have a large hot tub and water slide, as well as a small lazy river - all perfect for about Kenna's age!
Grayson was pretty fearless and went down the little slide all by himself! Zachey ended up loving the larger orange slide by the middle of the first day :)
We got to the water park around 1. Grayson did pretty well without a nap! We swam for a while then checked in and went to our little "cabin." It had an upstairs loft for the older two, kitchen, one bedroom and a fold out couch for Grayson. The kids oohed and ahhed and explored for quite some time - was fun to watch!
Grayson thought that having his own giant bed that folded out from a couch was pretty awesome! That night we went to dinner at the restaurant on site. The food was really good, and the kids were exhausted! The older ones played memory while I tried to get Grayson to go to sleep in our bed. Finally he fell asleep (so did I) and Josh took him out to the couch and the others fell asleep on their bunk beds.
We got up and made eggs bacon and toast, packed up and headed to the waterpark again! It is amazing how much easier things seem when your kids are pretty self sufficient! I had a few freak out moments where I lost sight of Grayson or Zachary for a minute...but other than that it was a wonderful relaxing trip!
Definitely got me excited to get them all in swimming lessons this summer!
I think the long drive home definitely shows you they were tired! All leaning the same way which I thought was funny and picture worthy! :)
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