The Congdons: The Great Escape

Two weeks ago my parents took our family and my siblings (the ones currently living at home) and my sisters friend Brian to the Great Escape in Lake George, New York. It was about a two hour drive to the park and half way there Grace threw up all over herself. She must get car sick because we had been driving on the back roads and they were pretty twisty and hilly...like riding a roller coaster. Thank goodness I had the good sense to pack extra clothes for each of the kids so she had something to wear when we got there. I also got to use my wet bag (I'll post about that later...I am not completely finished with it yet) for the first time...I stuck her nasty clothes in the bag and zipped it up and didn't have to worry about getting her nastiness all over the place and having it stink up the car while we were in the park.

The girls had so much fun at the Great Escape!! They rode on so many rides that I can't even remember all of them. They had a little area at the back of the park that is called Wiggle World (The Wiggles on Disney Channel) that we went to first. The girls got to drive the big red car, ride in Dorthy's Teacups and fly an airplane. After we left there they rode on cars, motorcycles, dinosaurs, more airplanes, swings, rollercoasters, trains, boats and every other ride you can think of. If it was a kiddy ride, they rode on it. They also went on the Merry Go Round and loved that. They got to take a ride with "Cinderella" as well in her pumpkin and I think that was the highlight of their day. Towards the end of the day Grace couldn't hold out anymore and ended up falling asleep on the big train ride (for kids and adults) and took a nap. So until she woke up Gwen went on a couple more rides and we ended up in the Looney Tune section of the park (all kiddy rides) and put Gwen in her bathing suit to play in their "splash park." Grace eventually woke up and joined her, and we spent the remainder of our time there (because it was a really hot, muggy day and who can resist playing in the water when it's like that?). It was a lot of fun and Gwen is still talking about it. It was great to have the chance to go there and let Grace actually go on some rides because last year when we went to Lagoon she was either too small for the rides or she just wouldn't go on them because she was scared. Hopefully this is something we will be able to do every year with the kids, where ever we end up (oh, and check out this wild squirrel we saw by one of the kiddy rides...just taking a break to relax in a weird way).

One of the first rides of the day...dinosaurs