IdleWild Highlights

Yes, it's been over a week since we were there and, no, I don't remember all that much but here goes. We left last Friday afternoon for the 3 hour trip to IdleWild in PA. Carla kept the kids awake till I got home so the first half of the trip was quiet and mainly involved Carla flipping flopped heads back into position in the back seat. After they woke up and listened to "Eddie Music" for a while we stopped at a rest stop for me to stretch my back and the kids to use the potty (well, for Ellie to use her diaper). We got inside and Ellie said "My tummy hurts" right before she did what's apparently a new hobby of hers. Carla caught most of it in her hand (glad I was over looking at the map) and Ellie ate a cracker and was fine. We got to the hotel an hour later, checked in, and went straight to the park where we ate dinner then the kids rode rides for a couple hours till it got too dark.

Ellie's favorite: The "Bidycles"

Here's them driving a car:

On the ferris wheel (shortly before Ellie got up).
Walker was really nice to her, trying to get her to sit back down but she decided to try as hard as she could to rip the door open as their car crested the top of the wheel. The operator brought them around and let Ellie out. She ran over to us crying and Walker just rode the rest of the time while Ellie watched:
Just had to type something between her head and her feet so it didn't look like I cut a picture of her in half . . . Apples, Alfred from Batman, The Office, Homeland Security, Boston Baked Beans, Jeep Patriot, Born on the 4th of July and other random thooughts to take up space . . .


Next they rode the dinosaur ride, which goes up in the air all of 7 feet. Ellie didn't like that either.

We didn't even try her on the Airplanes, but Walker loved them, especially the next morning when he rode them again and figured out how to make the thing lift off the ground by pulling back the stick (our camera battery was dead by then).



And a few more I thought were cute:


Ellie had a lot more fun the next day. We went to story book forest in the morning because no rides were open yet. It was basically like going to the Akron zoo except there were mostly farm animals. I guess it was more like going to the Akron farm. They both liked it there but wanted to get back to the rides. Carla and Ellie rode a couple rides while I took Walker miniature golfing, doubtless his biggest highlight of the trip. We could have done that in East Canton . . . The kids rode some more rides and I mainly limped around to try to keep my leg loose. It was about 1 o'clock before we (and, coincidentally, everyone else in the entire park) decided to eat lunch but we managed. The kids were getting pretty tired by then but we stayed long enough for dessert, ice cream for Walker and a cookie the size of her head for Ellie, doubtless her highlight. She ate all around the outside of the cookie pretty much until she fell asleep in the stroller. Carla and Walker rode the big Ferris wheel, which he loved, while I limped a sleeping Ellie around the park 14 times. When the ride was finally over, we loaded them up and headed for home. Literally one minute after we got in the durango, Walker fell asleep. He was one very happy, very tired kid. It was a pretty quiet ride home, too.