Thursday GC '08

Wow! Busy and HOT, HOT, HOT, summer has arrived!!

We started the day with karate then went straight to Splash Country. The first pictures were at the rest stop about 1/3 of the way. We played math games on the way and sang songs. John was explaining to Sam about dividing and percentages. For example, the rest stop was one third of the way if we have traveled 1/2 hour and the trip is 1 1/2 hours. Divide 1/2 into 1 1/2 to get 1/3. Also, how long does it take you to go 60 miles if you are going 60 mph? Don't know how much comprehension but it was fun and that is how it starts. When we stopped, they also stomped red ants and threw the football. We stopped for lunch at Burger King in Sevierville. That was the first real "fast food" of the two weeks, moms. John ordered a double and Mason and Sam order a cheeseburger but asked for the second one. I knew that they were going to be busy so we did and Mason ate all of the second one and Sam almost all of it. They started out on the river ride all together and came back all together. Then Mason kept going. This is the photo of the lifeguard extracting him at my request. It was only about 2+ feet but he was trying to swim up stream. Then we went to get the child locators. A great plan where you can locate everyone in your party at video stations. A person comes up on the screen with their name. Thank you Dolly! We then went to the big wading/activity pool. Now, to the wave pool. I insisted that they put on life jacket and then were on the inner tubes. I decided that I needed to put on my suit. It was so hot! When we got back to the car, the temp was 104. Of course that was in the parking lot but I would guess 95 to 97 in the park. John went on the tube slide on the inner tube by himself. We wished the others were big enough to do it. The younger boys discovered that they were big enough for the butterfly slide. You can see the result. They were next to each other so was manageable. Ice Cream and then on the Sam's house. Lauren fixed burgers, peas and mac and cheese and needless to say they devoured it, INCLUDING THE PEAS! Check out the motivating factor, Uncle Tom and whipped cream. He speaks BOY! Then they went on Sam's big swing, even Granny gave it a run. Mason could not be persuaded. John loved it after the first HELP! We drove home and all were asleep when we got here. It was a hard day and one on three isn't the best situation but we had fun and arrived back home all together. I was surprised frankly that I wasn't any more tired than I was but I crashed and for the first night, we didn't take showers, just brushed teeth, changed clothes and crashed. We are excited to see Uncle Todd tomorrow.