Camping/Sesame Place

We had a fun weekend camping and going to Sesame Place. Sesame Place is Sesame Street characters theme park with little kid's rides. They had the blast off thing that takes you up and drops you but only from a little ways. They had a lot of spinny rides which I wasn't going to attempt many of because they make me sick. I did go on one and Syssa decided to start spinning a little and I told her she couldn't do that because Mommy gets sick. They also had quite a few water rides. By 5:00PM though it was too chilly to do any of them, well at least for us it was. Syssa and Mara found a small waterslide that they could do all by themselves. They loved being "big girls". Anyways my sister lives only 2 1/2 hours from us and only like 40 minutes away from Sesame Place now so she met us there. The campsite was a little different than what we expected since the original campsite we wanted nobody could give us directions to, even the people who worked at the pool there. Weird. Here are some of the highlights from our trip.


We took the two middle seats out of the van and packed it up middle and back. Here are the girls set and ready to go. So exciting.



We get there and start setting up the tent. Syssa and Samara dug a small hole next to the tent with their play shovels and Nattie stayed in her pack and play until we got the tent and the bug screen set up.


After we got things set up Nattie crawled over and got up into this chair. What a big girl.


They did so well with being good while we set up camp that I gave each of them a cookie. Alyssa and Samara did fine with theirs. What happened to Nattie? She made a huge mess. If you look closely the pack and play in front of her it's completely dark with chocolate. YEAH a mess for Daddy to clean up. ;-)


Nattie in my sister's sunglasses.


H-O-T This is my sister Angela. Don't we look hot?


The first thing Alyssa saw was a roller coaster from outside the park while standing in line. She kept saying I want to go on that over and over again. I thought it might be too big for her since it was a roller coaster and everything. Nope! Samara was able to go on it too. I was so nervous for them. They'd never been on a roller coaster before. I stayed behind with Nattie, she was too small, you had to be 42 inches and up or 36-42 inches could ride with an adult. So Micah, Angela, Syssa and Samara were off. Please don't cry girls


Up they go. They didn't cry they wanted to go more. They both loved it. Alyssa said she was scared but it was fun.


Mara on the carousel.


Syssa on the carousel.

Angela and Nattie on the carousel.

There were lines to see each Sesame Street character. The girls wanted to see Elmo really bad so we stood in this long line to see Abby Cadaby and Elmo. Well, as we rounded one of the queue corners we looked over at Abby Cadaby's spot and BIG BIRD was there! That made us happy because out of all the Sesame Street characters there are Alyssa and Samara's favorite are Elmo and Big Bird. Only one line for both!!! YEAH!!

We are a cute family.

Samara decided to pose in this one. Angela wanted to get in the spotlight too.

Here's the blast off ride. Samara was a little scared and almost didn't go on the ride but I talked her into it and she had a lot of fun.

We changed into our swimsuits after lunch and came back in and watched the parade. Well, we changed in the car so we could put some stuff in there that we weren't going to use and I left my camera in the car... so no pictures of the parade. Sorry.

This was one of the spinny rides I wasn't going on. While Angela and I were on one of the water rides we put our shoes in one of the shoe cubbys. When we came back after going down the slide we came back and her shoes were gone! They were flip flops so no big deal they are replaceable but who steals flip flops? Also right after the parade since I left my camera in the car Micah ran out to get it. So Angela and I took the girls into one of the pools to let them play and cool off. Micah came back and we wanted to start going on waterslides and Nattie to take a nap so I picked her up to take her to the stroller and set her on my arm. She had a swim diaper on but that didn't hold the explosion of diarhea that plopped into the water. I was so embarassed but oh well she's one what can ya do.

Back to the campsite.

We had to pack up camp pretty quick because we started to hear thunder and lightning. We made it out just in the nick of time. The girls are again set and ready for another 3 hour trip.

This road was the weirdest road ever. It was a two lane road that over this one bridge turned into a one lane road. I mean one car at a time. The speed limit on this road is 45 MPH. Kind of scary.

We are home at last.

All three girls wanted to watch the Mouse Detective on the TV in our front room but Nattie around 6:30PM couldn't handle it anymore. She fell asleep and was out until around 7:15 this morning. Poor baby.