Too Busy Living to Write about Living

Summer is advancing all too quickly. It is not only my ES who is feeling it. I am feeling it as well. He totally feels like his summer is already over. I keep reassuring him that he has loads more fun to get through first.

We were planning to make a trip to visit Holiday World in southern Indiana this past weekend. After realizing how much we spent on our last trip to Indiana Beach, we decided that we really couldn't afford the trip to Holiday World, but would happily return to IB again. So, we opted for their Monday Madness offer (if you arrive after 4 p.m. on a Monday and pay for a full price ticket, then you get the whole next day's ticket for free).

It turned out to be one of the best trips to Indiana Beach we have ever had. We dropped ES off at IB by himself and took the little boys to check into the hotel and swim in the hotel pool. Then, we met ES for dinner and rode rides. I don't know if it was just a lucky night for us, but the ticket clerk gave YS a wrist band for free for both days. She said they usually offer kids 2 and under for free (we'd never heard this before).

I think we all enjoyed this trip because MS and YS are growing more courageous. This meant that we broke off into different pairings more often. MS and ES rode the Galaxy roller coaster (YS still calls them roaster coasters). Hubby and I both took turns riding the new Steel Hawg roller coaster with ES. I think hubby thought that I would not take the challenge or would freak out. He rode it once with ES. When I rode it, ES commented that he thought I would have reacted more strongly. I merely said, "Let's ride it again, since the line is really short."

Later in the evening on Tuesday, we had all headed over near the swings because MS wanted to ride the ride opposite of the swings (Star-something?). It is a large ride where you are seated towards the lake and the giant arm swings you around and around one direction then slows and swings you around and around the other direction. MS rode it over and over with each of us.

Then, YS wanted to ride the Music Express. (If you go here you can view all the rides, to get more of a picture of what kind of ride we were one.) This is one of those rides where you spin forward and then backward, and the momentum makes your partner slide into you. Since he is 36 inches tall and met the height requirements, I decided I would go ahead and take him on the ride. MS rode with ES. It was so fun and YS absolutely loved it. I couldn't stop giggling the whole time because YS was having so much fun on it and MS was trying so hard not to lean against ES.

We ended our evening with elephant ears and I drove home (since I'm the total night owl). I wish I could have given more time to this post, but I am really short on time right now. We are planning on leaving for CBLI tomorrow and will spend the night at my in-laws (this breaks up the drive and means we won't have to leave quite so early in the morning on Friday). I did manage to get several things packed today, but had hoped to be able to write a few posts for my absence. Alas, it just didn't happen.

I did receive a beautiful netbook for my birthday and had planned to trek over to the lodge in the evenings to access their wifi and write posts while there at CBLI. Alas, they have changed the age divisions and placed my ES in the teen track (I understand the argument, since, at 13, he is really already a teen). This means he will sleep in a teen cabin and not with us. Therefore, I won't be able to leave the little boys alone in the cabin while I wander off to write a post.

Sorry for the haphazard post, but sometimes life gets too busy to snatch up moments to write about what we are busy doing.