it always comes in threes

lol okay so we had a bang up weekend….

mom and i took harlie and chai to this indoor water park…my aunt and her two kiddos (jana and ben) went too….so we left thursday night….after everyone was home from school…..the place was only an hour away, but we made some stops, got the kiddos something to eat on the way up, then stopped in logan to try to find some bathingsuit coverups for me, mom and my aunt…none of us like the way we look in a suit….nothing in logan….so we stop in lancaster….and found some….back on the road….well by this time it is really dark out…and my mom doesn’t see well in the dark, so she told my aunt to turn on a road….which would have taken us to the road we needed if we would have seen road sign before we passed it lol! so we get turned around, take the right road and we’re on our way….

we get to the hotel and it is amazing….the kiddos were so excited, they got to swim in the waterpark for about half an hour that night…..after that, we go to the regular hotel pool…and let me tell you, it was nice, except for it was rather smallish…..and everyone had the idea to go there, so it was kinda packed….then we are sitting there and this guy is in the pool, drinking a beer with his one year old son in the water with him…..GRRRR completely not a good thing….i mean come on….earlier when we were on the way down to the waterpark area, the same little boy was in the hallway by himself….tried to get in the elevator with us, and here comes his dad and mom "oh there you are" WTF? even in the water park i knew exactly where the kiddos were….

so we ordered pizza that night, ate and got the kiddos in bed….then got up the next morning…here is where the title comes in….

1….i wake up to my mom on the phone…Kia hit what? my brother backed out of the driveway and ran into Chai’s bus…which i had told the day before that she wouldn’t be home so they didn’t need to stop…so now he has to go to court…..and he got fined for improperly backing up or something like that…. so that was the begining of our day…hearing about that..no one got hurt, but yanno not a good thing…

so we go on with the day, go get breakfast, then off to the waterpark…..we ended up renting a cabana which was a great idea, it’s like this little rest area that only we could use…keep our stuff in, and instead of having to wait in the long lines at the snack area, we could call a server and they would take our orders and all that…which we never actually used…we stood in the lines lol….but was a nice place for the kiddos to rest at when they were tired of swimming….and they were perfectly placed near the swimming area for the kiddos

2….somewhere between the time it opened and like 1pm, Chai decided to run up the wet steps that lead to the slides she was playing on and slipped and ended up scrapping her chin on the step….i was getting the kiddos lunch at this point…so mom took care of her….she cried for a bit, but was back to playing after she ate her lunch….

after lunch chai and i spent a bit of time in the hottub….it was nice….they also had a lazy river that we went into…chai didn’t like that, even though it was only 4 ft of water she though she was in deep deep water…maybe cause it was called a river….don’t know….but she started laughing when she got to squirt me with water lol….

after the lazy river, she went back to playing in the kiddo area….having a blast…she and harlie got along so well…i mean they were even holding hands….i was amazed…got pictures of that too! so our day was going great….then all the kids decided that they were going to rest….except for chai..she wanted to slide some more..

3….this was about 4pm….the kiddos were all getting tired….and chai just wanted to slide…so she was going down the slide….she went one time….came and said mommy i’m going again, then went twice, came and said that was fun, i’m going three times….so then she gets to the top of the slide….(i find all this out later) she trips and hits her head, gets up and comes down the slide….well the lfieguard is all flipping out, we were at the cabana door…chai comes out of the water with her head bleeding….she hit just above the left eyebrow….so we go into the first aid area and they do an awesome job with her, getting her calmed down and getting pressure on the cut….they called 911, because it was such a deep cut….and the squad gets there…Chai starts crying again, because they say she needs to go to the ER….and she doesn’t want to ride in the squad…so we follow the squad in my aunts van….the hospital was great with her, got her in quickly…and she ends up with 4 stitches in her pretty little head….which the doc told her were bows…..so that’s what we call them here lol…

so then we go back to the waterpark…cause that’s where we left everyone else….and we went to let the head lifeguard know that she was okay, that she had stitches and all that…well chai gives him a great big hug….and he’s like go out to the main desk for a second, he comes out with a game card for the game room…tells us that he’s glad she’s all right and all that..so we go and let her play in the game room….then we get ready to go….my aunt loads up the kiddos…and mom and i go to the gift shop to get dad and her and myself something….my aunt go the kiddos t-shirts while we were at the hospital…so we are checking out at the front desk/gift shop and Corey (the headlife guard) comes up to us and asks for a phone number…..so we gave him my cell # and he’s asking us if we had fun, if we were planning on coming back….which Chai wants to have her b-day there….so he writes down his name and says that when we come back to ask for him and he will take care of us….that is so above and beyond his duties…i mean it really shows that they cared that she got hurt…and it’s not like we could sue them because of it, so he wasn’t being nice just because of that….i mean we took the risk of letting her play on the slides….so yeah, we are definatly going back for her birthday….we were planning on it before any of this happened…

so that was our trip..we came home friday night….spent saturday in bed until like noon….and then cha and i spent the night watching tv together…mom n dad went to bub’s game…..mom is planning on buying a little matchbox car that is a yellow school bus….and sitting it on bub’s dresser….he teased her when the big truck hit her pt cruiser…so she says it’s her turn to tease him lol….

now i’ve got to get our room cleaned and then get all my homework done that is due by midnight tonight…not too hard to get done…but yeah, need to get motivated to do it…hope you all had a semi-better weekend lol

luvs yas

cole