A fun way to skip school

A couple of weeks ago, Jason and I took the boys down to Aquatica - a waterpark next to SeaWorld.  Going to a waterpark was on our Summer Fun list but summer had gotten away from us and we never made it.  So we surprised Brody on a Friday and took him down there.  He thought it was pretty cool that he didn't have to go to school, even though he had no clue where we were going.

Checking out the scenery because he has no clue where we are going - oh yeah, he's still in his pj's.

Aquatica had 2 kid areas - this one had little slides for the kids even one you could go down on a tube.  All kids under 48" had to wear a life jacket - it was actually a good thing because I didn't have to worry at all about them.

My 2 sweet boys enjoying the beautiful day at Aquatica.

This is the Dolphin tank with the Dolphin Plunge in the background.  The slide goes right through the tank - yeah it's pretty cool - Jason and I both rode it.

Here's the bigger kid area.  There was water spraying EVERYWHERE!!!

While Brody and Jason played in the big kid area, Trevor and I hung out and rested (and ate)

These slides were pretty fun.  Jason is on the blue one on the left.  Brody was actually big enough to ride it but he didn't want anything to do with it because he didn't want to go down by himself.  Brody did ride everything else he was allowed to ride even though it was just once.

Brody and I rode a big raft ride that had 3 big drops.  Brody's eyes got so big with each drop and when we hit the bottom he said "that was terrible" but no tears so that was a good sign.

This was the entrance of the Rapids which was one of the best things at the park.  It's like a Lazy River, but nothing lazy about it because it pushes you along through rapids in about 3 feet of water.  When we got there we saw all of these adults wearing life vests and we thought what in the world, but then we realized that they were wearing them to ride the Rapids.

 Somebody was so tired that he fell asleep before we got out of the parking lot.  We were hoping he would sleep most of the way home but we got stuck in some traffic and was stop and go so that woke little man up and he WAS NOT happy after that so it made it a LONG drive home.

It was a great day at the water park and I'm pretty sure the boys had fun because Brody kept saying this was a great way to spend a day off of school.