Sesame Place

One of our favorite places to go in the summer with the kids is Sesame Place.  We made sure we made reservations after NBA Finals were over.  We left a little after 9am on Saturday.  I drove all way.  I like driving since I can't really do anything else in the car.  We had one stop at a rest area for a potty break.  The kids do great traveling and always let us know with plenty of time if they need to go potty.  We checked into our hotel.  We were hungry so ran over to McDonald's across the street for dinner.  Austin and Sydney ordered pancakes.  That is one of their favorite foods.  They love that they can get pancakes for dinner there.

After dinner, we went to Sesame Place.  We got there around 6pm.  We rode the rides.  We got Sydney on the roller coaster.  She really wanted a piece of candy.  We said if she tried the roller coaster she could have candy.  She was scared at first but Brian told her to scream if she was scared and then she loved it.  She loves to scream.  She is definitely loud.  She even rode it again.  This was a big step for her.  She's never was a big fan of bigger rides until now.  It turned out to be her favorite ride.  She also tried the Elmo drop and was scared at first but loved that too.  We ended the night watching the night parade with some popcorn

On Sunday, we got to the park when it opened.  We listened to the Star Spangled Banner.  Austin and Sydney know most of the words because of the Cavs games.  The first ride we went on was the roller coaster.  Again everyone loved it.  Then we went on more rides at the back of the park.  Another favorite ride is the swings.  Austin wasn't feeling well so I took him to minute clinic.  Brian stayed with Sydney and watched a show and rode some rides.  Austin and I were gone for about 2 hours.  I brought Austin and activity book at CVS for something to do while we waited.  Austin did a great job waiting.  He was placed on antibiotics.

I picked up lunch on way back, chicken nuggets and milkshake.  Kids were super happy especially about the milkshake.   Then we went to water park in Sesame place, lazy river, water slides with double tube. Sydney loved that ride.  Austin went down big water slide and liked it.  Sydney was sad she was not tall enough. Hopefully next year she will be tall enough.

That night we had dinner reservation at Elmo and Friends.  We got dinner, pictures with characters then interacting with characters.  Kids decided to honk characters noses.  They thought it was so funny! Sydney loved the dinner and danced with characters.  Austin still wasn’t feeling that well and wasn’t as interactive. We rode rides until the night parade.  We all like the night parade.  

On Monday we had breakfast at our hotel.  Once again we did the roller coaster first when we got the the park.  However we decided by 11am that we wanted to do the water park.  We changed and went to the big duck water slide first.  The kids loved it.  They wanted to do it again but the line was too long.  Then went back of park and did other water slides.  Sydney enjoyed the double inter-tube slide.  Austin had issues with life jacket needing to be off for one of the bigger water slides and he cried.  He was really tired.  We played in the big bucket area then played in the splash pad.

We were down swimming by then so we changed back into dry clothes.  The kids played in the train car area.  This was the first time the kids played there even though it was our 3-4th time to Sesame Place.  They really liked being in charge and pushing other kids.   They saw a kid doing that so Austin really took charge and played there for a long while.

We watched the Abby art show.  It was cute.  We rode more rides and ended the evening once again a the parade.  We decided to go to Friendly's for dinner.  We don't have one near us so we decided on that.  We even order ice cream for dessert.  It was a great way to end a fun trip.  

On Tuesday, we left at 730 am.  However there were traffic problems for about 30 minutes.  We got home around 3 pm.  Once we got home we had to grocery shop and Brian cut the grass.  And that evening kids had T-ball.