Vacation Day 3

Day three of the vacation started off early in the morning because I thought the Dell Boat Tour left at 9 am and lasted 3 hours (or so said the website).  When we arrived there was no line & I was thinking - finally!  All the planning paid off!!!  Well, wrong I was!  The boat tour didn't start until 10 am and only lasted 2 hours, which turned out to be a blessing because it was one hot day on the river!

Thankfully we packed the baby carrier, so we set off on a hike along the riverside.  It was a nice little detour for the kids so we didn't have to sit and wait on the tour.

The kids insisted we sit on the top deck of the boat tour - it was bright but there was a nice breeze going so we survived!  I bought a book of the tour we took that describes all the beautiful sights; these are just some of the pictures we took.  Unfortunately, I can't figure out if any of these are in the book but these are pretty too!

This was taken somewhere within Witches Gulch - a nice cool canyon during our hot boat ride.

This is Stand Rock where H.H. Bennett captured the first stop-action photo of his son Ashley leaping the five-foot gap from the mainland cliff to Stand Rock.  A german shepard leaped across the gap while we were there, but we were a little trigger slow!

After the boat tour we were just in time to see the Glockenspiel Reenactment of the Pied Piper.  It was pretty cute, short and didn't hold the kids attention at all!  They were more amused with the wishing well.

After all that activity and a quick nap, we decided to hit the water park again!  The kids couldn't get enough of the water and they slept great at night. . . so I thought, why not!  Each time we went to the elevator it was a huge ordeal over who got to push the button!  Thankfully Caleb pushed the right button each time, of course under Sarah's direct supervision!

Sarah tried so hard, but she just couldn't get this to work!

One of Sarah's favorite rides was the water slide where you had to use these mats.  I couldn't believe she did it and by herself!  I was so proud of her!!!

Caleb on his favorite water activity!  This was just perfect for him.

Daddy took a wrong step right when this huge bucket of water spilled down by the little slide the kids were using - he said it felt refreshing!