Watiki....Worth the Wait!

Well, yesterday afternoon we finally made it to the Watiki Water Park!!! The kids and I arrived at 4:30, just half an hour after it opened, and then Matthew and Chad met us there after they finished work. Our friends, Tod and Tarin, also came with their crew and we enjoyed our time together - especially getting to meet their new arrival for the first time! Graysen Slade was just 1 week old yesterday=)

As for our crew - they had a blast! We were there for quite a while before Matthew came and, as usual, Monica helped quite a bit with the younger two. I stuck sort of close to our table with all our stuff, purse, phone, camera, etc. so the kids were on their own for a bit but did very well. The boys spent the majority of their time on the big water slides....none of my kids have any fear of the water or the slides so they were running from one thing to the next at full-speed most of the time! (Zach is currently in a phase of making a ridiculous face any time the camera is pointed in his direction....please tell me it passes!)

The only thing that was a bit scary for Alana was a HUGE bucket of water the would slowly fill and periodically dump tons of water on the whole kids play area. But she did brave some of the little slides on her own, her biggest problem was getting cold and having to come back and warm up quite often.Those are her pink sandals you see sticking up over the edge of the slide=)Jesse's favorite thing was definitely the river...you climbed into an intertube and floated around a watery path. He went with Monica, Zach, and Daddy for a total of who knows how many trips!Here are both the daddies with their respective 2 year old's and 4 year olds - Tod with Tori and Truen, and up ahead Matthew with Jesse and Alana. "Hey, you wanna come with us next time?"