Go Karts

First off, we want to wish both GG and Aunt Katie "Happy Birthday!"  We hope you enjoy your day.  We love you and miss you very much.

After "much" research and debating, we decided to stay at Mt. Olympus Water and Theme Park - and we are glad to say that we were not disappointed with our choice.

The hotel/park has an outdoor theme park, an outdoor water park, an indoor theme park, and an indoor water park.  And it was all included with our stay!  We could visit the parks at any time and stay how ever little or long we wanted.  We loved this because when you visit a theme/water park such as Kings Island or Holiday World, you spend the entire day there to make it worth the cost of the ticket.  That wasn't so with our trip.  Almost every day, we would "sight see" in the mornings and then wait until the last 2-3 hours the park was open to go enjoy the rides.  The lines were super short (great for the kiddos) because of this, and we were able to do so much more!  Ok...enough of my sales pitch...pictures.
At the outdoor theme park, there were 4 wooden roller coasters and 8 go kart tracks!  While we did ride the coasters a few times, most of our time was spent on the go karts.  The kiddos LOVED them.  They weren't big enough to drive, but there were these great buddy seats that allowed them to have just as much fun.  The kiddos would continually switch up who the rode with which made it even more fun for everyone.
One of the "towers" of a go kart track

Look at that smile from Dallas - he couldn't get enough of the go karts

Taking a turn with Ma-maw

Reba with Daddy

Waiting in line

Aunt Lisa, Pa-paw, Dallas (not wanting his picture taken I'm sure), Brian, Reba and Aunt Katie

One time in particular, Doug and I had chose to ride a coaster instead of the go karts.  As we came off the coaster, the group was getting set to go racing.  I was able to get this picture on my phone of them racing!  Let's just say it was not always "clean" racing.

Starting on the far left - that's Aunt Katie and Reba knocking Pa-paw and Dallas into the wall, after Ma-maw (far right kart) had spun Pa-paw and D around.  Aunt Lisa is in the kart to the right of Pa-paw, and Brian is in the kart between Aunt Lisa and Ma-maw

The kiddos really did great on vacation.  Most days they went without an actual nap.  More than once, Reba took her nap while waiting in line for the go karts!  One time, she actually slept through the entire race.

This is looking back from Ma-maw's go kart...such focus determination happiness in those eyes!

Since I'm talking about the theme park, I'll go ahead and add these few pictures of the only "ride" the kiddos went on...the swings!

Reba loved waving at everyone as we went around...

Daddy was a real champ and went on one of the "circle" rides with Dallas (Pa-paw went one time with D as well.)  Pa-paw and Daddy don't handle the rides that go around and around very well

Aunt Lisa and Dallas having a lot of fun on the swings

Until next time...