Labor Day Weekend in the Hoosier State

We headed to southern Indiana for Labor Day weekend to spend time with our families in Evansville and Ferdinand.  We actually left Thursday night to have more day to spend at home.  We stayed at Derek's mom's house on Thursday and Friday night and spent the entire day with her on Friday.  It was a scorcher on Friday and Saturday in Indiana, so we elected to stay mostly indoors. We headed to a new inflatable play area in the morning and the kids burned off lots of evergy.  We also went to lunch at our usual Evansville lunch destination, Chik-Fil-A.  We don't have a single Chik-Fil-A anywhere near Bloomington, so it is a place we always want to eat when visitng Derek's mom.  We spent the rest of the day hanging out and playing at grandma's house.  Carter and Addy always love visiting their grandma and playing with all of her toys.

A good "brother/sister" moment

Addy loved the obstacle course!

IU!

On Saturday morning we headed to my parents' house. We were supposed to head to Holiday World that morning, but decided to rearrange our plans to head there on Sunday when it was supposed to cool down.  Rain was forcasted for Sunday, but we decided to trade the scorching heat for a rainy day and we were SO glad we did.  Even though we battled morning showers, the crowds at the park were significantly lower and the afternoon was virtually dry.  On Saturday we hung out ot Mom and Dad's.  It was nice having a day with little planned.  Mom and I took the kids to the Candy Castle in Santa Claus.  I love to go there for their Christmas themed children's books!  Derek was also super excited to get a dinner of Jenk's Pizza.  It is one of Derek's favorite southern Indiana meals!  No one makes pizze quite like Jenk's!

On Sunday  We took Carter with us in the morning to do the kiddie rides in the dry park.  He had his first ride on the bouncing fish and the train.  At lunchtime we headed back to my parents' for lunch and naps.  Then we headed back to the park with just Addy for an afternoon at the waterpark and "big girl rides" with Mommy and Daddy.She really enjoyed her alone time with us and braved a few pretty big rides.  She loved Splashin' Safari and went down two big slides with us--The Watubee and  Zimbabwe.  She really enjoyed the slides, but was a little intimidated by the height of the stairs we had to climb to get to the tops of the stairs. 

Taking a break from the rain to meet Holidog

Family pic with Santa

Carter wasn't so sure about his first ride on the fish. Check out that death grip!

In the dry park Addy continued her new found bravery and rode the Spider with me and the log ride with both of us.  After picking up a duck at the duck pond and an ice cream cone we headed to the gate to pick up a keychain at the gift shop for her collection and then we headed back to see my family. 

We had a great visit with everyone and really enjoyed just hanging out.  On Monday we headed home to Illinois and made a pitstop in Arthur, IL to check out some Amish Furniture.  Little did we know that the Arthur Cheese Festival was going on.  We explored the booths and a few furniture stores and then continued our journey home.  We had a great Labor Day weekend with family and had so much fun in southern Indiana!