Waterpark Enjoyable!! – Jo’s Nation Junction

Oops. I spotted that I forgot to indicate you footage from the water park trip…Better late than by no means. Right??

For Christmas, Arnie and I took our households to the waterpark in Dubuque, Iowa. We are engaged on the households attending to know one another. We’ve been collectively just a few instances, however not loads. So far…all is properly. My children and his children can see that we’re each pleased collectively. That makes getting them collectively a lot simpler. It was much more enjoyable this 12 months as Arnie’s brother, his spouse, and her daughter and granddaughter got here. We had been fairly the tribe.

The lodge was nice. All of our rooms had been in the identical part on the identical flooring.

Here is only a bunch of random images from the time we had been there.

Here is Gannon exhibiting off his wrinkled fingers. He was like a fish within the water!!

I snapped an image of Kalissa’s household.

Here is Lilly. I feel the image is so cute together with her goggles on.

After our Friday afternoon swim, all of us went to Pizza Ranch. It was one other wild journey, however doable.

They had an arcade at Pizza Ranch. One set of youngsters went again and began enjoying, then the opposite children needed to go. At one level, I heard Kalissa ask her siblings, “Now which one of my siblings caved and let their kids go to the arcade?” I needed to snort. Kalissa and Kelli ended up letting the youngsters go, however they had been so younger. They didn’t understand you wanted cash to play, so they simply “played” with out cash. HA!!

They have a room on the second flooring the place breakfast is within the morning. We are allowed to hang around there, and a few of us did.

We performed playing cards…and a few performed Yahtzee.

There was a hallway, so the youngsters performed duck, duck, goose and simon says.

Then Kalissa took all of them to one of many lodge rooms and obtained all of them to huddle up collectively on the mattress. They did a video that mentioned thanks for the journey on the waterpark. It’s their Christmas current, and they’re lastly getting sufficiently old to grasp that.

Then the youngsters obtained despatched to their mother and father. Buck was enjoying playing cards with us. Scotty obtained so drained, he pulled three chairs collectively and went to sleep.

The subsequent day the youngsters had been prepared to return to the waterpark. Here are Georgia and Gannon.

This is Buck and Lindsay. Lindsay’s son got here with too. I didn’t embrace any footage as I don’t have Lindsay’s permission.

This is Craig and Gannon popping out of the waterslide.

Carver…

Here is Kelli, Jason, and the twins, Eli and Emmett.

Karl and Spencer are having fun with the recent tub.

Georgia stopped on her manner as much as the waterslide to peek out and see us.

I missed footage of a number of the children. Somehow, Lucy and Jasper didn’t get an image taken by me. Jasper was sufficiently old this 12 months that he didn’t want as a lot shut supervision and will go off and play with the large children.

All in all, we had a really enjoyable time. I purposely didn’t embrace image of Arnie’s children…once more, I haven’t requested permission to share footage.

All in all, we had an exquisite time. Arnie cherished it…I cherished it, and in keeping with everybody I talked to, it was successful. Each 12 months it will get somewhat simpler. The grandkids get somewhat older, and all of us get somewhat extra conversant in the routine of issues. I’d name it a profitable Christmas giveaway.