Wisconsin Dells Day 2

Forgot to mention that at the end of the night on day 1 we were all getting ready to leave the dry play area and we briefly lost Max. I went back in the climbing structure, Damon looked around the outside of it. There's a huge arcade next to it, and Damon found him on the other side of it, getting ready to head out the exit! He's SO Mr. Independent these days. He won't hold your hand, wants to walk and not be carried, throws a fit when he has to sit in a cart, and thinks he needs to get in and out of the car by himself. If you do it for him, he'll get out (or in) and do it all over again. Whew. Don't know what I'm going to do with him. Giant wave pool. Noah, Will and Sam could have done this and nothing else and been totally happy!
In the following video you can hear Laura saying, "You guys all need to agree that you will not put any pictures of me in a swimsuit on a blog or on facebook. " and then my mom says something about "fat, white legs." I tried my best to honor that request.


Bathing Beauty:




Max really didn't enjoy the water much. He spent quite a bit of time sitting and watching or being held because he was intimidated by all the noise and well... water. He hated getting splashed and said "NO!" constantly. Here's one of the rare times that he was having fun, mostly because he was "splashing" Damon and getting a big reaction out of him:

Also, he's not much of a sharer.

New this year were these squirting bumper boats. (Which you had to pay extra for, of course.) This used to be a smaller wave pool.







Boredom quickly sets in for a teenager:

Max thinks this is one of the best videos ever:

In Max's eyes, Noah is the funniest boy ever!! He knows exactly how to get Max to laugh and usually it involves slapping himself, or falling down.

Time at the arcade:


Max LOVED the ski ball game, but thought the object was to roll the ball down the ramp and catch it when it comes back to you. When I'd help him roll it hard enough to 'lose' it, he'd cry. So this toddler version of the game was perfect! Lily loved it too! She's no dummy - go for the high scores!

This was the day that we had the SECOND lost child incident. We were regrouping at our table, getting shoes on, getting ready to leave the wave pool area to head back to the room. A big group of people were all exiting at the same time, and Sam assumed that he was with our group. Instead of stopping at our table like the rest of us did, (which was right by the exit), Sam just kept on going! At some point he discovered he was not with his group! He thought he'd been left behind, and that we were all somewhere up ahead. So he hurried to catch up with us. All in all, he traveled up a flight of stairs, over a walkway, down a flight of stairs, clear through another 65,000 square foot waterpark, and back into the hotel. While Damon searched the wave pool area, I walked ahead to see if Sam had gone on ahead without us. The whole time I kept thinking surely he hasn't come this far. I knew that once I reached the hotel hallway, I'd be turning around and going back. I looked down the hallway and spotted Sam waiting to get onto the elevator with a hotel maintenance worker. He'd told the man that he was lost, that his family had left him behind, and that he thought we were all back in our room, somewhere on the 2nd floor. SO glad he didn't get on that elevator! He was in tears and in a panic. From that time on we made sure we had a meeting place - (although we'd done that before too.) I told him to always go BACK to the place we were all last together - we'd never go forward without him. Whew!