top off

To top off the week...and top off our tanks...we did convince daddy that a trip to the water park was in order.  We felt like we hit the gold rush at Pete the Prospector's Water Mine.  It took Aiden over an hour to stop saying to his brother or any one that would listen, "Oh, look at that, you are not going to believe your eyes!"  J and Aiden took round one and I caught them rush past at 2.5 mph on the rattlesnake lazy river, but quickly lost them in the crowd.  Then Aiden and I were onto round two, where he showed me around like Pete's assistant water prospector.  There were huge rafts to venture through the lazy river complete with jets and a tunnel, big floaty tippy animals to float on, and tons of slides big and small.  The biggest slides allowed for kids to ride in their parent's lap.  Big Pete, the tallest slide, was the first I rode with Aiden and I learned to keep my mouth shut on the way into the water.  It still amazes me that these resort-like parks are owned by the county park system.  Can't wait for KC to join in the water fun, but he loves chillaxin in the shade.  Then we were off to a winery not too far up the road (although the early traffic bug bit us at 3:30ish - boo) to meet my friend and her great friends... The hit of the party was this set of wooden donuts with wooden icing attached by velcro.  Simple toys are so much fun especially when dad makes them disappear and reappear...  After the magician dad finished his wine, we headed off to some turkey lurky dinner at Bobby Evan's!  Ooh, yum.  Then to finish off a nice day we cruised over to the grocery mecca Wegman's (which has a steeple like thing on the roof, so Aiden asked if we were going to church) and we walked around in awe and moaned that there wasn't one closer for us to go to all the time.