Home from PA

Just letting everyone know that we made it home safe and sound form our mini vacation in PA. We went with my parents, brother, and his 3 kids on a 4 day trip. It was one crazy trip with just about everything ending up more complicated than you'd imagine, but it was alot of fun! We started out spending the night in Columbus and going to the Ohio State Fair in the morning. Well, the day we decided to go there was a heat advisory out for the area with raw temps (not including humidity) at 101! Yeah...miserable hot! That night we traveld up to Pittsburg for the night. Well on the way there the town next to Mansfield had a mini tornado! So that kinda says the weather we were driving through. We got to our hotel that night at about 10:30 and of course were exausted! The next morning we were all excited about going to Idlewild amusement park (the reason we had driven 5 hours the day before.) To our surprise, the park was closed Friday because the storms that we had driven through the night before had knocked the parks power out. So...now what do you do in Pittsburg with 6 kids? We got on the internet and found an awesome children's museum in town. It's the type of place that if we lived nearby we'd have a membership. It was a total hands-on-learning experience with LOTS of free play, imagination, creativity, and of course MESS! The next day we did end up getting to use our tickets to Idlewild when they opened the park back up. It was loads of fun at the park and so neat to watch the kids enjoying themselves. The park has a storybook forest, Mr. Roger's Neighborhood Tolley, huge Kiddie Land, and the normal amusement park rides and such. The park is aimed at preschoolers but was fun for everyone. My mom actually visited the park when she was little and has pictures of the same nursery rhyme characters as my girls now do. I have lots of pictures to share with you of the trip but I will have to upload them tomorrow. Today was a busy, busy day with trying to unpack, do laundry, and all those other things that you have to catch up on after being away.