Kalahari Trip

OMG...it's been a month and a half since we went to Kalahari and I haven't posted the pics yet..I was scrolling through my posts and found this one was still a draft! Seems it was waiting for the rest of the pictures. Sorry...hopefully no one was holding their breath, waiting for that post. But, here it is!

So, Kalahari was a great time. We arrived Tuesday afternoon about 2pm and waited about 20 minutes for them to find us a room. Technically check-in time is noon for the water park, but you can't get into your room until 4pm. But, I told them I needed a place to nurse, and they got us a room quickly. Of course, that may not have been the greatest idea; our room was second to the last farthest room from everything....like a mile away from the lobby, water park and all the fun stuff. Needless to say, we did a lot of walking!

The weather was crappy; cold and rainy when we got there. It was a perfect time to stay at an indoor water park.

Once we got our stuff in our room and ate lunch, we went to the water park. It was the perfect time as most people must have been eating dinner; it wasn't too packed. Once we talked the kids into trying the kid-sized water slides, we couldn't keep them off of them; they loved them!

We played there for quite awhile. Here is Allison getting dumped on by the huge water bucket.

Mason liked the water on his feet, but that was it; it was kind of cold.

After all the initial excitement; he fell asleep and slept through a lot of it; which was a blessing for the rest of us.

We ordered pizza in our room for dinner..it was the largest pizza ever; 20 inches! And, it was good!

That evening, after dinner, we enjoyed playing in the arcade, where you earn tickets from playing the games, and can then turn in the tickets for prizes. (Similar to Chuck E. Cheese's). We got 100 credits with our room package for the arcade. This was a great time-filler and a nice way to wind down the evening.

The next morning, we got up early, had breakfast at the buffet (which was awesome!) then Allison, Preston and I went and painted pottery. We received $40 towards pottery with our room package. It was so fun and relaxing and I let the kids do whatever they wanted with their pieces. Of course, I touched them up a bit when the kids were done painting. This was probably the most fun for me; something that I would like to do.

We went back to the water park after painting. Had another fun time, but it was in the middle of the day, so it was pretty busy in the park. Mason got overstimulated I think...so, we cut that trip short, went and got lunch and went back to our room to eat. I nursed Mason and took a nap with him while everyone just chilled out and watched some t.v. for some down time. When the kids were ready to get up and go; David took them to the putt-putt course, which had only 9 holes. I stayed back and fed Mason again and then headed out to meet the family. By the time I got there, the kids were done golfing...so there aren't any pictures of that, but they both shot the same number of holes, so no winner and no loser, which equals no fighting.

By this time, it was closer to dinner time for everyone else (but we had a late lunch, so we were ready to play), so the water park wasn't so packed. We had a more enjoyable time this time. The kids loved the lazy river. David and I took turns going with the kids, but they also went through it by themselves several times.

And, again, Mason slept through most of it...

I even talked the kids to going on a big water slide with me; it was in a big raft...unfortunately, David is even worse with the camera than I am, so these are the pictures of that...but I'm not too worried about it since I was in a bathing suit, on film. HA!

After going on the big water-slide with mom, the kids were brave enough to go on the big slides by themselves; they graduated from the kiddie area...

The kids' favorite part of the whole trip was the "Wave Pool". They loved it, and every time they went in, they got deeper and deeper. There were a few times that we told them it was time to get out and they told us no and went closer to the wall...obviously, we eventually fished them out.

We ended up leaving the resort for dinner...wanted to get out and maybe not spend $60 on dinner. It was about 8:45 and apparently, the city of Sandusky shuts down at 9:00 pm in the off-season. So, all the local restaurants were closing when we were looking to eat...we ended up at Wendy's, but at least it didn't cost us a fortune!

After dinner, we stopped and got some candy from the Sweets area; can't remember the name of the shop. Then we headed back to our room to wind down. The kids watched t.v. in the living room and David and Mason hung out in the bedroom while I took a bath in the whirlpool tub...I cannot remember the last time I took a bath instead of a shower, but it was so relaxing. I even dropped in a few drops of the lavender body wash they supplied in the room. Needless to say I was totally relaxed and ready for bed. The kids slept great and Mason was so easy going for being an 8 week old on vacation. It was so nice.

Thursday morning we packed everything up, loaded the car, went back to the buffet breakfast and then picked up our finished pottery. We let the kids finish off the last of the credits for the arcade and pick out prizes (junk) with their winning tickets.

We then headed home...and the weather was beautiful, which was great since we were headed home and would be spending the rest of the week outside.

So, there you have it...our Kalahari trip from spring break over a month ago! If you want to see ALL of the pictures (as if I didn't post enough), you can see them here. These include the pictures of the room, our view from our room and everything else. Hope this post was worth the wait, if not, at least I got this page on my "scrapbook" done!

Until next time.