Two Thumbs Up!

The day after my parents left Landon's Fall break started.  We didn't have any big plans.  We knew we wanted to paint our stairway since it looked really bad from when we had pulled the carpet up.  And we thought we would just hang around and maybe hit the zoo and do things around Omaha.  Wednesday afternoon I got a LivingSocials offer in my email for a one-night stay at a indoor water park hotel in Des Moines that included dinner, breakfast, and wristbands for the water park.  It took us about 10 minutes to decide that it sounded fun and we bought the deal.

We had so  much fun!  We checked in, got our goody bag filled with pirate eye patches, snacks, treats, pirate tattoos, and got our suits on and went to the water park right outside our door.  They had two 2-story slides where the kids could sit on your lap.  Kinnie and Andrew loved going down the big slides with Landon and I and Kinnie got really brave and did some of the other slides by herself.  She even learned how to jump off the top step of the pool into the water without anyone catching her.  That was a big step for her!  After swimming for awhile we ate our pizza in the room and went to the arcade room.  Landon and I let the kids drive the cars while we played the games :)  But hey, we did it so we could get tickets and buy the kids those cheap toys.  I think we had a little too much fun there.  We did some more swimming that night.  We went to the hotel grill for breakfast and swam some more!  It was a quick trip but a perfect 2 hour drive and enough fun for all of us.  We would definitely do it again!