Storyland

It was the second annual trip to Dan Hold Pond with the Devlin's and Hoffenberg's. We went up Friday afternoon and stopped at Storyland first. It was humid and cloudy; shortly after we paid to go in it started to drizzle. The drops quickly intensified to a full downpour. Luckily all the kids had happened onto the ball crawl, a covered pavilion full of plastic balls. We waited out the brunt of the storm nice and dry in there, Pip and Vivie having a blast. Of course, the sign said no running or jumping. Ring-leader Pip organized about four kids to line up at the top of the entrance ramp. "One, Two, Three .... BLAST OFF!" Then they would all run and leap into the balls. Miraculously, all the kids balanced their rough dispositions with good spirits, so there was never any fighting or crying.



Soon the rain slowed and we ventured out from the cover of the ball pit. Pip tried a few rides this year, but chickened out of the water raft ride .. bummer. Meanwhile, Vivie found the water spurters and frolicked happily.


I got screwed out of all the rides. The ones I waited in line for the kids backed down on me for ... but Phil did get to ride the super fast whale and the shoe ride.


Here are Vivie and Ella as we left. She always looks up to big girls and loves to hold their hands. Seems like this has some sort of slow motion effect on her walking though. Whenever she's holding a big-girl's hand, she goes from being a slow walker to a super-snail-slow walker. It's a wonder we made it out before they locked the gates.