Idlewild and second lost tooth

On Sunday, we drove to Idlewild for the day.  It's about a 2.5 hour drive for us.  We left around 8am.  We arrived at 11am after stopping at McDonald's for the kids. They love pancakes so we got them some before arriving at the park.  The first thing we wanted to do there was the Daniel Tiger trolley ride.  That is always the one with the biggest wait.  However it didn't open until 12pm.  It was annoying because I thought it opened at 11am.  Nevertheless, we decided to go the jungle area.

Austin and Sydney played in the ball pit.  They loved it.  They enjoyed throwing balls at targets and swimming in the balls.  Then they went and climbed the rope climb.  They liked the playground at the end of it too.

After they played there, at 12pm we went right to Daniel Tiger's Trolley.  We waited about 15 minutes.  During the wait, the kids were sitting with me.  We were talking and they started fighting.  Brian took Sydney to separate them.  As Austin was talking to me, I noticed his other bottom tooth was missing.  I asked him about it and he didn't have a clue when it fell out. I called Brian over and he started looking for it.  Amazingly he found it under were we were sitting.  We couldn't believe it.  Then we didn't really have anything to put it in so Brian ended up putting it in a multiple colored pen and put in his camera bag.

We rode the trolley and Sydney enjoyed it.  Austin was not impressed and made comments about it being a baby ride.  Then they went and rode little kids rides.  The loved the push cars they had to pedal with their hands.  They rode all the rides there.  This was the first year, we didn't ride anything with them.  They were both big enough to do it by themselves.  They always have fun riding the rides together.

Then it was time for lunch. I packed some lunchables.  Austin didn't like any of it.  He ate a granola bar.  After lunch, we went to story book forest.  One of Austin's assignments for kindergarten is to learned several nursery rhymes.  It was cool to do story book forest with them knowing all the nursery rhymes and saying them.  One of Austin's favorites is Pease Porridge.  However while looking at the sign, Sydney sounded it out and knew what nursery rhyme it was.   We enjoyed walking though it.  There were several characters along with way too including Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood.  At the end, there was a new castle with a princess inside.  Sydney was so excited!

Austin and Sydney went back to the ball pit area and rope area.  Then it was time for them to see Danial Tiger.  We went there and got a picture.  The kids played in the kids rides for a bit again too.  Then we went and rode some bigger kid rides.  We rode the Scrambler, Storm Tripper twice, and then the spider.  The spider was terrible.  Austin and Sydney loved it.  Brian and I not so much!  In fact, we I got off with Austin I made him come with me to the bathroom (Brian was still on the ride) because I had to get sick.  It was bad!  I will never ride that again!

Then we needed to relax a bit so more little kid rides and then the big train ride.  Austin wanted to ride the train badly.  He enjoyed it.  After the train, it was about time for the park to close.  The kids wanted to ride Storm Tropper again so we did that and then drove home.

We stopped for dinner at Wendy's at ate in the car.  I drove there and back.  I enjoy driving since I don't do anything else in the car.  We had a great day there.  It's important to make these memories with the kids!