After the chocolate factory it was lunch time. So we decided to pick up some pizzas and eat them by the water at the Mill.
After driving around for a while we finally found a parking lot for us to park. We found a nice shady spot and ate our pizza. The kids sort of ate, but seemed to play more then eat. But that's part of the fun of being on vacation and being with cousins.
After lunch we walked towards a bridge that has a playground on the other side of the water, but that bridge turned out to be closed and half missing. So we decided to walk around the Mill area and see the people in their kayaks doing cool tricks in the water. The city created some pretty cool rapids in the river where people can practice their kayaking and it was really fun to watch them.
It got pretty toasty as we were walking around the water. We put sunscreen on the kids, but did not put much on us and some of us got some pretty good sunburns. I got it mostly on the back of my neck...super red stuff. That'll teach me not to put sunscreen on back there.
After our toasty walk around we decided to go check out another playground that had a pirate ship. What else do you do with a bunch of little kids age ranging from 9 - 1 years old?
It wasn't far from where we were, but we had to go get some gas first. After that we got to the park and indeed they had a big pirate ship. The park had a nice drinking fountain so I could fill up our water bottles. We were all very thirsty after that hot walk around the water.
The park also had this really fun slide that started on the top by the pirate ship and then ended down on a path by the water. The kids loved it and would slide down and then run up the stairs to go again. Best idea ever to run out energy in children.
I tried the slide myself. I had to hand Margie my camera and water just to sit down in the slide and then lean back because it was kind of short for me, but it was a fun little slide. Even grandma got in on the slide action and loved it. We couldn't get Allie to go down the slide, she stayed up and played on the ship and in the swings. She loves her swings.
After the slide it was time to find all the fun things to do on the pirate ship. They had a plank for the kids to jump off of that had a spring board. The kids loved jumping on it a few times and then jumping off. It was noisy but super fun too.
The ship had tons fun things on it for the kids to play with. Things low for the little kids and high for the bigger kids. Josh said that this was his favorite playground and wanted us to go back there again.
After we were all parked out we decided to go back to the hotel and check out their pool.
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