Silver Dollar City

Rudy and I decided to take the kids to Silver Dollar City on Tuesday as a sort of "last weekday hoorah" of the summer.  Rudy has the state band conference this week (Wed-Fri) and then summer band starts on Monday, so he is basically back to work now.

We made the twisty, turny, hilly drive to SDC on Tuesday morning and got there just in time to eat lunch.  After lunch, we went over to get Caleb's official measurement and find out what all he could ride.  His first ride was the flying elephants, then we spun around for a while on the teacups.  I tried to get Caleb to ride the swinging pirate ship, but he wanted nothing to do with that!  He loved the kid-sized roller coaster and says it was his favorite of the day...

He rode several other rides with Rudy while I took Nola to an air conditioned nursing station to feed her and let her cool off.  I soaked up a lot of that air conditioning while we were in there as well.  It was HOT! 

Finally, the boys decided it was time for them to cool off by getting wet.  They rode the water battle ride where they got to shoot water at people watching and at other people on boats.  After that, they rode the river boats, where they got even wetter. 

Caleb also enjoyed playing in the treehouse.  I tried all day to get Nola to sleep a little, but she fought it with everything she had.  She did snooze a little at one point, but it was just too hot and noisy to stay asleep.  She was a trooper, though.  She watched the sights and was pretty happy as long as we were in motion.  She didn't like sitting still at all.

We all rode the train - Nola's only ride of the day besides her stroller - and Caleb was more interested in watching a daddy long legs than watching the classic SDC train robbery.  After our train ride, we ate dinner and then called it a night.  We made the trip home with 2 very tired kids (and 2 very tired parents) and finally got Caleb in the bed at 11:00.