Quads First Trip to an Amusement Park
My little brother works and lives in Korea and he and his wife and kids come back to the states once a year for a visit. They've got two beautiful kids, ages 4 and 7, that our children just adore. Well, we got brave and decided we'd take all seven of the kids to the local amusement park a couple days ago. The kids have never even all been to a sit down restaurant together, they truly don't get out too much, and we were pretty nervous about taking them so my mom, mother-in-law and aunt all came along to join in the fun.
The kids turned out to be pretty great actually, they listened well and had a blast riding all the small rides. Jacob, our oldest, likes the rides the least so he spent a bunch of time in the gameroom with nana, thrilled to be winning tickets galore that he got to exchange for trinkets. The girls liked the rides the most, the little boys just kinda tagged along because they weren't about to let their sisters show them up. Amazingly, Sarah - the smallest of the four - is the biggest daredevil of them all. We went on the tilt-a-whirl and most of the kids hated it, it just spins way too fast and forces you backward in your seat. They couldn't wait to get off, a couple of them screamed the whole way, but not Sarah! When the ride stopped she wouldn't get off, just said "not done!" I had to promise her we'd ride it again before we left the park and she made sure we did - a couple times!
I'm soooo glad they had a good time cuz its gonna have to last them awhile! They were TERRIBLE for the rest of the day and have been ROYAL TOOTS for the couple days since. These kids are very set in their schedule, we've encouraged that because its the only way to get everyone to sleep at the same time, eat at the same time, etc - but they missed their nap that afternoon, slept in the next morning, and refused to give in at nap time the next day so their schedule is just all messed up and the rest of us are paying for it. By next year at this time we'll likely have forgotten about the "after ordeal" and get brave enough to try it again
The kids turned out to be pretty great actually, they listened well and had a blast riding all the small rides. Jacob, our oldest, likes the rides the least so he spent a bunch of time in the gameroom with nana, thrilled to be winning tickets galore that he got to exchange for trinkets. The girls liked the rides the most, the little boys just kinda tagged along because they weren't about to let their sisters show them up. Amazingly, Sarah - the smallest of the four - is the biggest daredevil of them all. We went on the tilt-a-whirl and most of the kids hated it, it just spins way too fast and forces you backward in your seat. They couldn't wait to get off, a couple of them screamed the whole way, but not Sarah! When the ride stopped she wouldn't get off, just said "not done!" I had to promise her we'd ride it again before we left the park and she made sure we did - a couple times!
I'm soooo glad they had a good time cuz its gonna have to last them awhile! They were TERRIBLE for the rest of the day and have been ROYAL TOOTS for the couple days since. These kids are very set in their schedule, we've encouraged that because its the only way to get everyone to sleep at the same time, eat at the same time, etc - but they missed their nap that afternoon, slept in the next morning, and refused to give in at nap time the next day so their schedule is just all messed up and the rest of us are paying for it. By next year at this time we'll likely have forgotten about the "after ordeal" and get brave enough to try it again
These pictures are just tooooo cute!! They did indeed have a great time, and two days later they were talking about riding the "up and down horseys". They had a blast!
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Jacob loved the games, especially the one where you take a club and knock the heck out of an alligator. So funny.
I had a great time, don't know about the rest of the group. And another thing his dad was just like Jacob about playing the games.
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