Maycation

At the end of May we went on a quick little vacation. It's always so nice to get away, especially at the end of school and before summer stuff kicks in. We headed down to Santa Claus, Indiana, and went to Holiday World. This is an amusement park and water park. We had never been there before, and we were very impressed and surprised at how nice it was! It's very family friendly, very clean, and they have unlimited free soft drinks (the only downer - pepsi, not coke). The water park was pretty big and very nice - I really liked it. There were also these little places where they had different displays with things like antique dolls, toys, as well as a collection of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia, since he grow up close to there. The whole experience was so great, and I highly recommend it.

The next day we headed to Kentucky and went to Mammoth Cave National Park. LOVED IT! So fascinating and so beyond what I expected. We went on 2 different cave tours and enjoyed both of them. We learned so much, and saw cool stuff. The kids all completed activities to become Junior Rangers (this whole thing was a homeschooler's dream!) and were so proud to hear their names announced on the loud speaker. Again, I highly recommend a visit.

I was so pleased with our destinations on this trip - we had such great experiences at both places. But my favorite part of the trip was the first night. We drove to Jasper, IN and stayed at a hotel before Holiday World the next day. We went swimming and hot tubbing, then got on our pajamas, watched Wipeout on tv, and ate oatmeal cream pies (see the picture above). It's the little things in life sometimes that bring the most joy.

Ryan loves this picture because he convinced the kids to pose like the Santa Claus. The funny thing is there was a real person dressed liked Santa right by this, but they wanted nothing to do with him.


Mammoth Cave pictures