Indoor Independence Day

Happy 4th of July!

It's so hot outside (heat index of 110!), so we decided to spend this Independence Day indoors.  We first hit up Nickelodeon Universe at the Mall of America.  Reese was very brave going on lots of rides.

Reese was a little scared of the Wonderpets ride, so asked me to go with her and hold her hand.  My hips barely fit into the seat and felt a absolutely ridiculous, but Reese had fun.

The Log Chute ride was the most daring of the day.  Reese and Brayden had fun UNTIL the big drop off.  As you can see from their faces, they were SCARED.  Reese cried and told me, "I don't want to do the fun part again!!!"  I felt terrible for taking them!

Luckily they were not too tramatized from the Log Chute, and Reese even told me later that is was a LITTLE bit fun.

After the amusement park, we went to the Waterpark of America to swim and stay overnight.  Reese went down the kid slides about 10,000 times (and especially liked it when Daddy would race her), and Mommy and Daddy even took a few turns going down the big slides. 

Emmy had fun staying in a hotel for the first time.

We watched some fireworks on TV, which was actually a very nice way to watch fireworks with little kids - no noise (we had the TV on mute because Emmy already fell asleep) and no mosquitos!  We all crashed early from an exhausting day indoors.