A Weekend with Cousins

After Saturday breakfast in Grandma Kathy’s room, the kids all went to Auntie Dot’s room, where they played with tractors and watched extreme skiing (crazy people in New Zealand zooming down vertical rock faces on the peaks of a jagged mountain range).  We were all waiting for the Iowa cousins to arrive before we invaded the waterpark.

Right after I took this picture, he cranked on the wheel and the water came splurting out of the pool at high speed and soaked me.  This boy was EVERYWHERE on the water playground and in the wave pool.  I took him on the lazy river and it was . . .uhm, not so lazy!  He brings adventures whereever he goes!  I love him.

Mr. TOF, on the other hand, was a snuggly bug on the lazy river as long as you stayed clear of the waterfalls, and he was super duper cautious wherever he was, especially after he tripped and stubbed his toe.  You would have thought the world was ending over a stubbed toe.  The big kids were all over, trying everything there was to try, of course.

Saturday afternoon Grandma Kathy watched Mr. TOF wade in the waves in the wave pool, and Dr. Peds and I went down a tube slide together on a double tube.  At the end the tube flipped over.  I think Dr. Peds did it on purpose, but he insists the slide just put us off balance a bit at the end and that he had no idea we were going to tip over.  That escapade was followed by a trip down the lazy river, where Dr. Peds tried very hard to steer the tube into every waterfall there was, which is why I am not so convinced of his innocence.  I was quite crafty and avoided nearly all the waterfalls by bouncing the tube back across the river with my foot.

We were swimming most of the time, and it was hard to bring my camera to the waterpark, except for just a few minutes at the very end of our time on Sunday morning when I came down in street clothes right before most of us climbed out of the water.  Most of the pictures from the weekend are from the motel rooms or at the Mall of America, where we ate together in the food court.

There was craziness and fun wherever we were.  It was fun for everyone to be together.