Hawaiian Falls

I almost bailed out on Hawaiian Falls with our friends today. I still have SOOO much to do before we leave on Saturday morning (note updated TO DO list below), but I decided that Landon would love it, and we hadn't really done anything special with him this summer. I am glad we went. Landon had such a great time; and as mommy hood now goes, since he had a good time, so did I. The first two hours we were there he was a little timid about the sprayers around the park, but he warmed up pretty soon - so did the temperature!! He went down a short water slide by himself about 10 times. I was at the top to help him get started (and that no kids went before he got off) and Margaret and her sister were at the bottom to make sure he got up and out safely. After this he took his nap - YES a nap, the sweet boy ended up taking a quick nap (about an hour) on one of the lounge chairs. He did at one time, while fighting going to sleep, fall off the chair and hit his head on the pavement. He cried for a few minutes, then gave up and went to sleep. It was so hot outside, he didn't sleep for very long. When he woke up he was ready to go again. We went around the lazy river a few times with Margaret and then went over to the 12 and under section. Lets just say there were more 10 to 12 year olds here than 2 year olds. There was a big climbing structure that had about 6 or 7 different slides on it (one of which Landon went down in the morning) and lots of water falling. Landon wanted to climb up so bad, but hated it when the water would spray or shower him.

There were these sprays of water coming from the ground in one area, they looked like huge drinking fountains. I couldn't believe that of the 8 spickets 5 of them were covered up by adults with their chairs sitting right over them so that they could stay cool. There were about 10 little kids trying to play on the three remaining shoots. I was really amazed at the adults for blocking one of the few things tiny babies could play with - anyways.... After that I convinced Landon that this was not the best area for us to play in and we needed to get back to the cabana and eat some dinner. Speaking of the cabana, we rented a private cabana so that we would have shade, plenty of chairs and space, and not have to be sitting right on top of other people. The rest of the park was very crowded and the chairs were side by side, shoulder to shoulder.The cabana was really nice. They provided us with free lunch, free drinks all day, a radio, and a cabana boy to fetch our drinks and food!! After a quick dinner Landon was ready to go again. This time we found a rock waterfall on the water path. Little Landon played with this waterfall for about an hour. Check out some of these pictures and the video... I would have to say this was his favorite part, a close second would be the water slide (wish I had pics of his face as he went down that slide!). I guess this is his YOGA for the day!

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Now I MUST go to bed - I have a HUGE busy day ahead of me. I've asked Sarah to come "babysit" Landon tomorrow so I can get our bags packed, and the final things marked off my list. I'll be here, but I need a hired hand to help play with him!