After picking corn, we headed home to pack up for a little family vacation. We left town at about 4pm and headed for Topeka.
We stayed the night in Topeka and got up the next morning to go to an airshow at Forbes Field. Truman is really into airplanes right now. He loves to sit with Travis and watch YouTube videos of planes taking off. It was a rainy day. We walked around and looked at the planes for awhile, then decided to go to the mall for lunch and to walk around inside and get dry.
That afternoon we headed on to Kansas City to stay with Hollie and Michael for a couple of days.
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| Talking to Turkey the cat. |
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| Grilling squash on the elephant grill. |
Amelia got ahold of my camera during several points of our trip. I think her little snapshots are a fun view into what she saw.
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| Dueling laptops. |
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| A delicious meal. | | |
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Monday we went to Crown Center to Sea Life Aquarium. It was a nice place and the kids loved watching all of the fish.
At Crown Center the was a Curious George exhibit with a lot of little hands on activities for the kids to do. Truman really loved the Curious George statue. Right when we walked in he went to hug and kiss him on the lips. And he had to do the same as we left, even though I tried to stop him from kissing him. Germs!
Legoland is also at Crown Center, but we didn't go in. We thought that would be too much for one day and we'll save it for another trip when the kids are a bit bigger.
Another delicious meal was made, fish tacos with crappie we took with us.
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| I love the big, mature trees at Hollie and Michael's house. I forget what it's like to have them. |
Tuesday we went to Schlitterbahn water park. It was great! There was a kinder area for the kids to play, slide and splash. And alot of rivers to ride on tubes in. The kids had a good time and so did Travis and I. It was a beautiful day, the water was just right and it wasnt too crowded. We rode through the different rivers several times, Amelia on a double tube with Travis and Truman with me, and by the last trip, Truman was nodding off. He crawled over and fell alseep as we floated down the river.
After the waterpark, we headed to Ottawa to stay the night at Gigi's house.
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| Gigi was playing and Amelia was making up her own song. |
More of Amelia's snapshots...
Another first for our trip, escalators. I don't think the kids had ever been on one. Between the Topeka mall and Towne East in Wichita, they now have it mastered.
It was a great vacation, fun, sometimes stressful with two little people, but a great get away that we all needed.
While we were gone, Greensburg got over 5 inches of rain in two days. There is flooding in the central parts of the state and more rain on it's way now. It's amazing how different this is than the typical hot, dry and windy August that we've had the past couple of years.
