Amusement Parks and more!

With very little downtime between Ian's return from camp and my return from Israel (3 days to be exact), we had our bags packed and was ready for our next adventure! 

First a big SHOUT OUT to Jeff's parents for watching both kids the last four days before I got back from Israel.  It took a village of coordinated childcare coverage and it wouldn't have been possible without Jen Wilson, Anna Persky and Susanne Oshry, plus wonderful Gramps Camp at Marcia and Harold's house.  I am very grateful how wonderful everyone was to Jeff and the kids in my absence. 

From Monday, July 14th to Wednesday, July 16th, it was 3 days at Dutch Wonderland and Hershey Park with our friends Susanne and her 3 kids.  We did a mini-trip to Philadelphia last Summer and had an awesome time.  We continued with our tradition and picked a new spot to visit. 

We made it to Dutch Wonderland on Monday with time to enter the park for their preview period from 5:30pm to 8:30pm.  For the most part we dodged the rain and only ended up getting a bit wet.  Not too bad and we left at 7:00pm to head for dinner outside the park.  I was a bit worried that we were hitting the upper age limit for the boys to enjoy being at this park.  Dutch Wonderland is geared to younger kids.  This is most likely our last year visiting this park.  Fortunately, there were plenty of rides still peaking their interest.

On Tuesday we had a full day at Dutch Wonderland. We started out doing the dry rides and then in the late afternoon, the kids put on their swim suits and invaded the water park.  By the time the rain had come again, everyone was ready to call it a day.  Dutch Wonderland was pretty empty both days and the kids walked on each ride with no wait.  Of course, it also looked like it could rain at any moment.

Wednesday we hit Hershey Park.  It was an absolutely gorgeous day and therefore, the park was PACKED!!!!  It took us close to an hour just to get through to the parking lot.  Yowzer!!  Despite the enormous amount of people inside the park, it wasn't that bad.  We made a beeline for the water park and started our day getting wet.  What fun we had doing the lazy river, wave pool, water slides and more.  It took us until about 1:30pm before we were ready to change into dry clothes and get some lunch.  From 2:00pm until 7:00pm we did the dry rides and then headed home.  What a great 3 days!



Ian eats an ice cream cone as big as him!

Next year for Summer 2015 we've talked of doing NYC with the kids.  We're crazy like that!