Wisconsin in the Dells

For Thanksgiving this year, all of my mom's family came up to the Dells. We had a great Thanksgiving meal, courtesy of Cub Foods (which was surprisingly good. Mom is considering never making Thanksgiving dinner again.)

We justified our visit to the Dells because there are 3 birthdays in our family in the next three weeks. I turn 2 next week. Mom made me an ice cream cake shaped like a car. It was good.

Oliver also had a cake. He turns 1 on December 7th. Mom forgot to take pictures because she was in shock by how much he ate. He ate 3 plates of food and then downed 2 cupcakes. We think he was still hungry. He ate so much that I refused to eat a single bite and I didn't get to share any of Oliver's cake.

Here's grandma with the 2 babies of the family.

If you don't know, the
Wisconsin Dells were once famous for their sandstone formations (there are only 3 other places in the world like them. Even Great Grandma Seibert came to see them when she was a girl). Now the Dells are much more famous for being the self proclaimed waterpark capitol of the world. We stayed at the Wilderness resort that had 3 indoor waterparks. My favorite was the big wave pool. It was mom's favorite too. Dad got to go on the grown-up rides like the Toilet Bowl and the Hurricane. Maybe next year, I'll be gutsy enough to try out some water slides on my own.

When we weren't swimming, we went back to eating cake. We celebrated Natalie's birthday last. Don't worry- she's not 21 yet. She's 2 + 1 = 3. Of all the cakes, I think her yellow cupcakes were the biggest hit.

We even remembered to get out the George party hats!

Evie and Natalie both decided to eat the frosting off their cupcakes as fast as they could.

You can see that Natalie really liked her cupcake.

And so did I!

Finally, the resort had a huge arcade and play structure. The play structure was 4 levels high and kind of intimidating for a guy like me. But it did have about 40,000 foam balls and air guns 1that shot them! My favorite was the cannon that shot the balls straight up in the air.

It worked best if you stuck about 100 balls in before you shot them in the air.

Even Dad liked it.

Dad forced me down the huge slide. I didn't want to go at first, but it was really fun.

There were also cool pipes that shot air up and kept the foam balls suspended in mid air.

Science rocks!

By the end of the weekend, I was too tired to swim or play anymore. I just wanted to watch the arcade games.

Mom and Dad even spared the 75 cents in spare change they had so I could actually play a couple games.

Watch out!

Dad had to help me push the pedals on this one.

When we got home, there was a package waiting for us. It was a Carson Palmer jersey from my Nama and Paw-paw Cooper! And then the Bengals even won today! All in all, this was the best weekend ever!