Water Park!

In an attempt to stay cool and beat the heat, we visited Otter Creek Water Park yesterday.  We spent a great family morning splashing in the water, and have made it an annual summer tradition to visit this local park.  For the first time, Luke was officially tall enough (42 inches +) to ride the "big kid" water slide, and he LOVED it!  He and Mark rode in a raft down the "twisty turny" tube slide numerous times, and although you may not be able to see it in the below picture, both of my boys wore grins of pure joy!

    

Another first for Luke was that he was ready to ride down the tadpole slide without Mommy or Daddy.  We were so proud of our brave big boy, and remarked on what a change this is from last summer when Luke sat on our laps to go down this slide:

 

Leah stayed cool in the shade, tentatively splashed in the sprinklers, and loved the zero-entry pool.  She walked right into the water, and looked quite adorable wearing her required life jacket: 

As usual, Luke boldly ran through all the sprinklers, enthusiastically splashed and played, and burned a ton of energy having so much fun:

   

 After a picnic lunch, we collapsed into wet piles in the car, wiped out from our busy, full morning. Leah fell asleep practically before we pulled out of the parking lot, Mommy daydreamed about taking a long shower, Daddy looked forward to an afternoon nap, and all of the sudden we heard a little 4-year-old voice ask, "Can we come back to the water park again tomorrow?!"