And we’re back! Did you miss us? We were off vacationing at a water/amusement park by Starved Rock State Park. This place was pretty cool – we had our own house, got to ride a train trolley to the different buildings, played in the waterpark, and rode carnival rides and played games in the amusement park. We tried to go hiking at Starved Rock, but the mosquitos ate us up so bad before we even started that we decided not to go. We’ll have to go back – maybe camping next time.

I liked the rides a lot. There was one ride that was really high and spun around and around with lots of flashing lights and music. The carousel was more my speed, but I had to hang on because the horses went up and down and around. But my favorite part was the water jets in the pool. I played there all day! It was fun to splash and run around them.

It should have tired me out, but it made me pretty crabby (maybe staying up late and missing naps was part of it too). I would wake up in the middle of the night and cry. Mommy and Daddy tried to calm me down and have me go back to sleep, but the only thing that worked was to put me in my own room and let me cry it out.

I liked the rides too, but the waterpark was the most fun! I even got to go in the lazy river by myself in my own tube! And the wave pool was fun when Daddy came with me – those waves got so big! And I even made some friends and we played “hop” and we pushed the water as a game. At the rides, I was “this much” away from going on the rides by myself, but Daddy wanted to go on them anyways. We went on the tilt-a-whirl, a car spinning one, a tall drop one and the Growler. I went on the rollercoaster by myself. And of course the carousel – I can do that. I rode on a beautiful horse.

Did I forget to mention that we went pontooning too? We went on a boat on the Illinois River and took it to a beach and had lunch. The water was really warm and I found lots of rocks and shells. And the sun was shining… had to wear lots of sunblock, but we still got some sunburn (not too bad). But I lost my swimsuit. I was changing and I kicked my suit over the edge of the boat! We tried to find it, but it sank. I’m really sad and I want to throw away all my swimsuits now. My brother Daddy’s fishing pole in the river too, but he doesn’t seem sad at all.

When we got home from vacation, we went to fireworks! We took our blanket and sat on the sledding hill. We got blinky necklaces and had ice cream. The fireworks were so cool! And BIG! And LOUD! (And we got to stay up really really late again.)

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