The Final Night of Vacation

The trip home from Colorado was OK - just depressing to be leaving the mountains. The kids were good and we actually made it to St. Joseph, Missouri before we stopped. For most of you - you are thinking - you were 3 and a half hours from home, why stop? Well - we had promised our kids a hotel with a pool that evening and we wanted to make good on that promise. So, we found a hotel right off the Interstate with a water park. The kids were in heaven. There were three small waterslides for them, a bucket that dumped water on your head, one lazy river, a water basketball area, a large and fast waterslide for daddy and a hot tub for mommy. We were all excited! It actually was a great stay for our family and we had a great time. We even got up in the morning and hit the slides again before we headed home!

Kady coming out of one of the slides. The water was literally a foot deep, but they still insisted on either Chris or I catching them at the bottom.

As you can tell by the haze in this picture, the waterpark area was a balmy 86 degrees inside of it - so the camera lens was fogged over most of the evening. But - it was fun. Everyone enjoyed the slides - even daddy!

Kady and Creed going down another slide. Notice them plugging their noses. There is a SMALL stream of water coming down at the entrance of the slide, so they held their noses so they wouldn't get anything in their nose! Too silly!