Yeah. Water parks.
Yay. Not a big fan.
Kids and Huzbend are though.
So, I had to suck it up.
Of course the day we planned to go, it was breezy and chilly.
We opted to visit the amusement park half of the place in the morning, hoping the sun would pop out in the afternoon and save us from shivering.
Didn't quite work out that way.
Carousel time!
Then it was on to some hoppy kangaroos.
Katie really dug these guys.
Mikey and Katie had fun riding some rides. Just them.
It's great watching them have such a good time together.
Then it was time to swim.
The kiddie water playground section of the park was FRIGID.
We kept running back and forth to the hot tub.
Sitting in that was like sharing a bathtub with 20+ other humans; some of them kids in swim diapers.
Y-U-C-K!
To my relief, we moved over to the wave pool. It was semi-heated and tolerable.
And, I guess it wasn't AS gross. It was a bigger pool, so the pee could dissipate a little......
Ew.
The kids had a great time and were starving when we got back to the car to leave.
Huzbend went straight to work finding a place for us to eat.
Yay for Mexican food! Again.
The next day we headed over to The EMP in Seattle.
EMP = Experience Music Project
(also a Sci-Fi museum, of sorts.)
There was a fantasy exhibit and it was supposed to have the "Iron Throne" on display. You could sit on it and take pictures and stuff.
But......as is our luck....we missed the "Iron Throne" by, like, a week.
Oh well.
We DID get to see The Captain's Chair and TRIBBLES!
The kids thought they were amusing.
Then we got to play with a green screen.
Watch out! DRAGON!
Katie was most impressed with the sign for the sci-fi display.
She liked all the little pictures and naming the ones she knew.
Then we visited the fantasy exhibit and met a very sleepy
Mommy Dragon.
On to the music section of the museum for a little jam session.
Here's some video.....
And to finish off the week of crazy vacation stuff strong,
we visited the local Renaissance Faire.
Okay. Personal beef. Why "Renaissance Faire"?
I have never understood that.
Why not "Fantasy Faire"?
Or would that be uber-dorky instead of just dorky?
I don't know.
I DO know that the kids had a great time.
Mikey dressed up as a dragon and Katie as her alter-ego, Sara The Elf.
They met fairies!
They met pirates!
Mommy threw axes!
We ate a Medieval Icee and then enjoyed the joust competition.
On the way out, Katie decided to spend a bit of her hard earned
chore money on some most excellent face painting.
It was beautiful. She was beautiful.
And she knew it.
: )
Next up, a slight detour to talk about summer camps.
