The summer is winding down and I will be starting school very soon. To top it off, we have been surrounded by terrible fires that have us socked in by a horrendous amount of smoke and we are desperate for some fresh air. Mommy and daddy planned a little getaway for us for some last minute fun. Unfortunately we didn't get away from all of the smoke, but we were still able to have a great time.
We drove south and stopped in Redding so we could play at the waterpark. It was super hot the day we went so it was a perfect reprieve from the summer time heat. We got there right when the park opened and stayed almost until closing. Daddy took a couple hour break to take Maddox back for a nap so I absolutely wore mommy out! I was big enough to ride all of the slides this year and even went on the two really big ones (we call them "the toilet bowl" and "the clam" because that's what they look like). Once I went on those two, I wanted to stick with the smaller ones because they weren't as scary. While we were at the water park, mommy treated me to my very first snow cone! I had never had one before and I thought it was pretty cool.
The following day we went to Turtle Bay Park. We were pretty worn out from the day before but we still got to see some fun things. They had a show about animals and teaching us the importance of living with them in their normal habitat. We got to see a skunk, a raccoon, a fox, a porcupine, and a bobcat. Unfortunately they didn't bring the birds out for us to see because the air quality was so poor from the smoke in the air.
Maddox:
This was my first trip to a big water park! It took me a little time to warm up to the idea but I watched sissy having fun and before long I jumped right in! I'm not big enough to go down the big slides, but I had a blast in the kiddie area. They have a few slides for me to ride there and I was happy. I would splash in the pool at the bottom for a bit with mommy and daddy but I spent most of the day running to the top and going down the slides over and over.
After we had our fill at the water park we checked in to a hotel and went straight for the pool! Daddy picked up Olive Garden and we had a little picnic right in the hotel room while sister and I watched Toy Story on the bed. We slept great that night after all of the activity.
Like sissy mentioned, we went to Turtle Bay Exploration Park the next day before heading home. The animal show was fun but I think that I liked the Bird Room the best! It is a big fenced in outdoor room that has tons of Lorikeets inside. I didn't really want to touch them but I liked to watch them fly around. A few of them even landed on mommy to eat the nectar out of the cup in her hand! One silly little bird landed right on mommys head and was licking the sweat off of her forehead! Other than the bird room, my favorite thing in the whole park was the truck that they had inside the building. I played and played in that until mommy and daddy drug me out!
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