Monday, May 3, 2021

South Dakota road trip: Dinosaur Park (last day) and swimming at the hotel

 Saturday morning we took it easy in bed for a long time, then went to Dinosaur Park.  It was 100% mostly for Kellan, but the other kids had a good time too.  The views from up there were 360 degrees of awesome.  












Hotel Swimming:

Every day we'd do our outings during the day, then head back to the hotel around dinner time.  I'd watch the kids in the pool while Jonas would go scrounge something up for us.  The kids LOVED this pool.  It was mediocre at best, in my opinion, and not super large, but the water slide seemed to make up for it all.  Even Kellan loved the water slide, but he refused to go down with anyone but a parent.  As Jonas was often gone on errands, that left ME.  My heart pounded out of my chest going down the first time (it is covered, so all dark inside).  Nothing made me feel old as much as my reaction to a tame water slide like that... haha.

Kellan got to go shopping for breakfast with Jonas on Saturday morning.  It was his first time in a grocery store in 14 months, so he was pumped.






                                                                        water slide friends:


















Me, after going down the water slide.  My heart was POUNDING.  It took like 3 minutes for it to settle down after EACH time I went down.  I'm rolling my eyes at myself, believe me...