Noah's Ark Trip

We went to Noah's Ark on Monday.

All 7 of us.

It was the first time for Francys, Fanny, Veronica, Katrina and Samuel.

It was my last time.

No...

Not really, but I really did not care for the rides.

I am not sure why.

I think it is because I am a mother now and I am not cut out for that sort of thrill-seeking anymore.

The 3-car caravan left Wausau at 8:30.

We made it down to the park by about 10:30.

We got ready, made our game plan and started our trek from the parking lot to the

entrance.

During that short time Katrina ran into the rearview mirror of a car and smacked her head SUPER hard.

She developed a giant goose-egg and I felt absolutely horrible about it, as did Pancho.

We got her calmed down, got into the park and tried out one of the kiddie areas.

Little did we know she took off her sandals and left them by the wave pool.

From the kiddie area we made our way to the Adventure River.

Our friends, the Bretl's, lent us a life-jacket that we put on Samuel and Katrina wore floaties.

It was a fun experience all of us together in two tubes.

We left the Adventure River.

Little did we know we left the life-jacket on a deck chair and headed towards the bumper boats.

Noah's Ark seemed so much smaller with no kids.

Finding the attractions with one child in a stroller and another wanting to be carried takes a long time.

We were almost to the bumper boats when Katrina realized she did not have her shoes.

She started wailing and crying and screaming (if you know her you can easily imagine this!).

We told her we would go back and find them after the bumper boats.

Well, she would not stop crying about her shoes.

So, we got out of the bumper boat line and began the long walk back to the Big Kahuna.

On our way there I said, "Where is the life-jacket?"

Pancho had taken it off of Samuel and we laid it down on the lawn chair to get him into the stroller and there it stayed.

I was sick.

We were barely into our day and we had already had one goose-egg, one lost pair of shoes and one lost life-jacket, that wasn't even ours.

Well, we finally made it to the Big Kahuna and Katrina quickly located her shoes.

From there we nearly ran to the place where we loaded into the Adventure River and guess what?

The life-jacket was still there!

Praise the Lord!

From there we went to the van and went home.

No, we didn't.

We went to the van for lunch.

We met up with the rest of our group and discussed our game plan for the afternoon.

My brother Nick and his wife Amber came with the 7 of us in the afternoon so Pancho and I could go on some rides while others took care of Katrina and Samuel.

We enjoyed the Black Thunder two times and then somehow I got talked into going on the Time Warp.

BAD IDEA.

Let's just say that I felt like my heart stopped during what seemed like an endless ride and I will never, never do anything like that again.

Ever.

(the picture of us getting off this ride is in the collage -- thankfully my back is to the camera or you would see me bawling my eyes out, literally)

All in all it was a fun time...

Veronica was voted as "the one who got her money's worth out of the ticket price."

She loved every single ride.

She is a bit of a dare devil!

Katrina and Samuel enjoyed themselves although they did not really do too much.

At the end of the day we found the "Octoexplorer" children's area and they had a blast in there.

Sorry there are so few pictures...

It was more important for me to watch the kids than to snap photos!

Maybe we will go back in a few years when the kids will enjoy it a bit more and I can sit in a deck chair, sip my Coca and take some better pictures.