Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Winter Adventures and a Trip to Kalahari

 

Wipeout!! 

Sledding across the street


Sorting and downsizing the vast candy stockpiles



Playing in Sauk City








Valentines at the library




Snow Mountain!!!

Hanging out with Nibbles and Chicken Nugget

Hide-and-seek with Nibbles and Chicken Nugget??

Loungin' at the movie theater.  We saw Smallfoot.

Exhausted after snowshoeing up our hill.

Working on a fort on the hill.



New fort area under the stairs because we just have too much storage space....

Ice bowl from freezing a balloon. 

Ice egg.

Lazy bums.




Playing in the hotel pool in Wausau on our way up to look at the cabin.




Delicious breakfast at Era Pancakes & Cafe next to our hotel


Back to the pool for a quick morning swim.



Checking out the cabin!




Huggy Wuggy

Snowman leaning a little after a couple sunny days...

Spa time at dinner... no one ever accused us of being too classy.



Elly delivered posters her class made to the post office and police department in Cross Plains

Sledding in Baraboo with Shenny and Will

....there was just enough snow





Nathan explored the woods instead of sledding and found some good sticks to bring home...

First day at Kalahari.  Nathan spent most of it in the 1 ft deep kid lazy river

Turning the hotel room into an obstacle course. 


Pizza!


Taking a break on the long walk to the waterpark on our first full day


Exploring while we wait for the park to open


Shopping for some candy


Sour gummy worms and candy legos

Heading into the water




Hitting the wave pool

Slide into the wave pool!

Lazy river.



Quick snack break.




Lunch time


Relaxing in the outdoor hot tub


Picking out some cupcakes after a long day of slides and pools

Nathan declaring the elevator is the best ride

Running through the skywalk back to our room

Pretzel, rainbow cupcake and oreo something



Beware giraffes. 

Quick look around Tom Foolerys



Moosejaw with Papa, Shenny, and Will




Building with lego candy.

The traditional trip to Cracker Barrel for breakfast

Cheesin'

Nathan's favorite waterpark activity... playing with a ball in the pool



Trip to Knuckleheads


Axe throwing













Hitting the ropes course



Nathan didn't do too much before he wanted to come down, but did really well

Elly went all over the place




Space Invaders!!





Go karts!



Flashing all the tickets they won.


Starting the painful process of trying to pick out 5 cents worth of junk they 'won'.  Nathan decided to keep most of his tickets.



Train track at Buffalo Phil's (restaurant that delivers your food by train)

Unloading dinner from the train.



Back to the pool on our last morning


View from near the top of one of the slides.





Outdoor hot tub was very steamy when the air temperature was around 20.


Lunch at MACs, the mac & cheese restaurant that we always say we shouldn't go back to.

Presents and a signature Doodles face attack.

Minecrafter's Cookbook!

...and a Harry Potter cookbook!

Dodging flailing Doodle arms

Ice cream cake from Chocolate Shoppe

Painting with a foil ball on one of the 2 unexpected snow days



Snow days are a good time to make slime.

I don't know man.
(Actually this was Sonic the Hedgehog pushing baby sonic around in a stroller.  Baby sonic was a blue, inflated nitrile glove)

Trying out pumpkin juice recipe from the Harry Potter cookbook.

Elly's Juice Bar menu

Nathan ordered pumpkin juice and tomato juice.

Juice bar instructions. 


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