Vacation 2009 - The Dells

Once again we headed to the Dells for vacation. Last year we went with Chris and Amy. This year we drug everyone else with us. We had our own room, but the rest of them stayed together - complete family vacation with Amy's shower getting interrupted in by my Dad. We let Amy pick the hotel again this year and she did a good job. This is an inside family joke - but really don't stay at the Country Squire something. It is not as nice as the internet makes it appear and that is why it is cheap. I would recommend the Atlantis which gave us free tickets to Mt. Olympus everyday.

Jason carrying Lauryn in the carrier - this was hers but is graciously letting us use it since our carseat was expired in January.

Mt. Olympus is an indoor/outdoor water and indoor/outdoor amusement park. Due to the strange and cold summer we were having it was nice to have all four options. This year we went in July to not get a cold week like last year, but we ended up with an even COLDER week. They set a record low high one of the days we were there. We braved the outdoor water park every day though - one day the high was 64. It isn't too bad after you lose feeling in your extremities.

Kaylee is in the first pink slide and Ally is in the yellow - click it to make it bigger.

This year Ally and Drew were tall enough for most of the roller coasters and could ride with us on all the slides. It took a little coaxing to get Drew on his first roller coaster, but he would drag us to them after that. After one Chad and I were a little sore and Ally's head hurt, but Drew was ready to head back up the stairs.

You could always tell that Ally was coming down the slide since she screamed her head off the WHOLE way down (with a smile on her face though). She loved the racer slides again and even got Kaylee to race with her. We never did get Drew up this one and Amy was also chicken.

We spent our evenings golfing and eating ice cream.

Family vacations are stressful, but fun - hopefully next year everyone will get to head to Arizona and California - maybe the whole Klaassen clan can join us - Hint hint. Forget the consession stand Chuck!

Being at a waterpark - the camera is not often out so enjoy the few pictures that we did have.