Mini Vacation

This year we never got around to planning a big summer vacation, so we thought we needed to do some kind of trip with the kids. So we packed up the car and drove down to Utah. We dropped off Damon at my parents house and stayed in a hotel in Sandy.

When we first got there, we decided to go to the South Towne Mall, which was right across the street from our hotel. Yay! We shopped around a little bit then we let the kids ride on the Merry Go Round that is in the food court...

Here are the cool kids waiting to get on the ride.
Blake on his dragon
Ashlyn on her kitty.

The next day we woke up to head to the "main attraction" of our vacation,
Seven Peaks Water Park in Orem.

Here is a picture of the main structure.
There were also some other big slides that weren't connected to this main one, but I didn't get a picture of them.


Here is Ashlyn hanging out at the wave pool. She enjoyed swimming but once the waves got started they were a little to rough for her, so she had to get out.
The kids and I pose for a quick picture.
And of course one with Dad.
Here is Ashlyn showing off her mad modeling skills!

This was Ashlyn's favorite part of the park. Though she was too scared to go down that teeny slide. She is such a chicken!




Blake absolutely LOVED the water park. He wasn't afraid to do any of the slides. There was one in particular that was really steep, that I'm not even sure I would have done, but he did it and wasn't a bit scared.
(He actually wan't even big enough to ride it, but Terry snuck him on it a few times!)
I wasn't able to get any pictures of him on it though!





That night after the water park, we took the kids to eat dinner at The Mayan. It is this fun Mexican restaurant that does a show while you are eating. They have these cliff divers that dive and do tricks into this pool of water. It is fun to watch though the food isn't anything to write about!

This snake statue is right outside of The Mayan, so the kids had to get a picture inside of its mouth.

Here the kids got to take a picture with one of the guys who are in the show.

(Ashlyn was a little afraid of this guy. But can you blame her? Look at that creepy looking smile!)

Here the kids and I are waiting for another show to start.

Same with Terry.

Of course, the best part about staying in a hotel is the swimming pool right! The kids got to swim both nights we stayed and enjoyed every minute of it.

Miss Ashlyn Jade

Here I kept trying to get an action shot of Blake jumping in, but my camera has too much of a delay, so this is the best I could get!

So that ended our Mini Vacation. We were glad we were able to make this memory with our two big kids. We already have our resort booked for Disney Land next year, so we have that to look forward to. So watch out California, the Olsons are coming!