Del Grosso's

On Friday (Katie's bday!) we went to Del Grosso's-- a small amusement park near Altoona, PA. We'd never been there before but wanted to try something different than the big ones. We really enjoyed it-- hardly any lines on most rides, much shade, nice price ($15 each for the day, plus coupons are available online). To celebrate Katie's bday, at the hotel we gave her a few little presents from us and a couple she got in the mail. Then on the way home, we got out chocolate muffins and I put a candle in one so we could sing to her. :) She tried hard to stay up til 10:39 (birth minute), but we got home at 10:15ish and she was exhausted.


Claire spent most of her time on the kiddie rides with Micah, which suited her just fine. She also went on the carousel and the YoYo (a swing ride which was her favorite). The worst part of the day was when she tried the Free Fall ride-- it doesn't go very high, but it goes straight up and then kinda jerks you down and up a few times. She went on it with K and J-- started screaming almost right away, and cried hard for the whole thing. It seemed like forever to us standing on the ground, watching her be terrified. That was right when we were about to leave, so we decided we had to go back and do a few more fun rides-- can't end on that!

Katie and Jenna did most of the bigger rides together; Chad and I switched off and on between big kids and little kids.

This was Micah's first time trying rides like this, and he loved them! Waved at us a lot. :)

Above is the Crazy Mouse-- probably one of the girls' favorite rides. I went on it once. It gave me a sore throat.

There was also a very nice water area-- had this part in the pic, but also 5 large water slides. We enjoyed that in the afternoon. Micah isn't all that excited about water yet, so he did a bit and then wanted to get out and cuddle. I changed him back into dry clothes and he took a nice long nap in the stroller while the kids finished in the water area.