Mini vaca to the Wilderness

Erik and I were thinking about our summer and realized that we had not really taken Elaina anywhere fun this summer.  Not that she has not had a great summer and she certainly isn't deprived of anything but we were thinking back, and the one vacation we took was to Vegas and she did not go.  Sooooooo, we made a last minute trip to the Wilderness... of the Smokies, that is.  It's a super fun indoor/outdoor water park.  We took Thursday off and went up for 1 night.  We got to stay 2 days at the water park.  It was fun.  I would recommend this to anyone who has a youngster - very reasonable price.  Especially, during the time we went - after school started and during the middle of the week.  Not having too many people made the time a bit more enjoyable.  This was her first time at a water park and needless to say, it was a fun time for her.  I have always loved water parks/slides/etc... so this was fun sharing it with her.

Waiting on our bus to take us down to the indoor park......

It took her a few times to go down this slide by herself but once I got her to do it, we couldn't keep her off.  We love to see her face.  This is how she look every time she went down. 

Erik and Elaina in the wave pool

She thought it was so cool to be able to crawl around the 1 foot section of the wave pool...  Here is her and Erik doing this.

This is the other slide we could not get her off of.  This was the one she was tall enough to go down with us on.  She is about 3 inches too short to go on all of them with us but by next summer, she will be good to go. She would just giggle and say "woo-hoo" all the way down.  So fun!

This last series of shots was Erik standing under huge bucket that pours out water every few minutes....  The first was the start and by the last picture you can hardly see him for all the water...  You had to hold on to your glasses and your drawers or else you might lose them.