Finally, a good nights sleep, hearty breakfast and off to Noah's Ark we go!! Nicole and Kevin went straight to the Anaconda Ride, it's a water roller coaster. Kevin loved it, thanks Nicole for going with him.
After they got off that one Kevin spotted this one right next to it and he grabbed a mat and off he went. That boy has NO fear. Heather see the one next to it (the beige one) that's the family tube ride that Michael didn't like. We kept getting airborne.
Grandpa keeping an eye on the little ones while we wait for Coley and Uncle Kevin (I was keeping an eye too it was just through the lens).
Michael waiting to go on the river ride, it was one of his favorites.
Isa with life jacket waiting to go back in the wave pool. She seemed to like it, but it really bounced her around, even when being held on to!
Kai at the wave pool, this is about as far as he wanted to go.
Kevin in front of the wave pool. At the shallow in they an area where it goes into a small pool. This allowed the little ones to be able to play in it a little easier, you just had to watch out as not to get pushed into walls! But if you did loose grip on a little one they would have been easy to grab back onto.
The little slides for the littler riders, even had a life guard to catch them at the bottom. Michael liked these a lot and did them several times. Isa did it a couple of times, she was so small though that she easily flipped around and didn't like that so that was the end of it for her. If you click on the pictures they enlarge for you and I did get her flipped around on the right bottom picture.
The kids in one of the splash areas. Kai really liked the swing, it was fun to drag his feet in the water.
I think we all enjoyed the river ride. At one point Calvin let Kevin go on it alone (we had been giving him some Independence). The first time he went on his own he did great came back to were we where sitting very pleased with himself. Then there were some medium sized water slides that ended by where we sat and we let him do those on his own also. I'd gone on the river ride with Michael and when we got off Cal asked if we'd seen Kevin? I said nope, we figured he'd just come on around in a few minutes. Well a few minutes turned into 15. We started kind of looking for him but he was no where to be seen. Cal decided to go look on one of the rides a little further up, Kevin had been told we were not about to wait an hour to go on. Sure enough the guy at the top said oh yeah, he's been here and went down already. On Cal's way down there was Kevin going back up to do it again. Our little boy is growing up.
There was so much to do at Noah's Ark, but so little if you're Isa and Kai. Calvin and Kevin headed off to do the Sponge Bob Dive Inn and we took the little ones back to the hotel to play at their splash park. The kids enjoyed it as much and no crowds so the adults could relax a little bit.
Have I mentioned how much fun this trip has been? There have been some rough spots, but all in all a good trip. We were happy that Nicoleand her two could join us. Thank you Heather and Brian for letting us take Michael on our adventure. Stay tuned there is a few more posts to come before we "get home".
Everyone that could make the lunch altogether.
Loretta, Bob's wife, Flo's sister, Kathy, Calvin, Lil, Ken and Carol.
Loretta. 
Michael and Michael enjoying their lunches, well poor Michael B. is still waiting for his to come.
Cal with Carol and Michael, Kevin and Michael, next time Laurie will need to be there so we can get a picture of all three siblings together.
After lunch we made our getaway to the border, we thought we might have some problems as we were traveling in separate cars. My van had been across the boarder a couple of times already that week, when Nicole went to pick up Mark they didn't like the fact that we'd already been across once that day and were going back already. Everything went fine, Carol was nice enough to drive down to Detroit with Calvin and Kevin so we didn't have to make two trips, we couldn't get everyone in our van. Laurie was on top of things and reserved us a room in Detroit so we didn't have to worry about that we just had to get there. We had a lot of rain while in Orlando. On one of those days everyone was dropped off closer to the hotel rooms and Isa and I went to park the van. While doing so one of her favorite songs came on the radio, so being the good meemaw that I am, I parked quickly pulled her to the front seat with me and started videoing (is that a word?) it.
All I've got to say is here is the American Idol winner 2019.
Simon better be nice to my girl!
Another picture this time with oil towers.
Isn't this sweet? Isa taking time to stop and smell some pretty pink flowers.
Auntie Laurie and the kids at the Oil Museum. Doesn't Isa look comfy, getting packed around. No walking for this princess, no sirree!
Oh, did I mention we were at an Oil Museum? Also that Isa is a girly girl, she would never and I do mean never, put her lovely little princess hands in said oil. Would she? Look at the look on her face! Here mama is having fun, trying to keep all the oil off of her princesses sweatshirt.
Finally, getting the hand cleaned up. Whew, now she can go back to being the princess we all know her to be.
The Oil Museum was very interesting. We saw a movie when we first got there, it exited through a museum of old oil type stuff (imagine that). Old cans that were used, equipment and everything else you can imagine that would have been used in manufacturing oil. Then they had an area outside to see the way the oil rigs worked (remember Isa's hands). They had old trains and such. Everyone had a great day! We ended it with a BBQ at Fred and Laurie's house, Actually it's an old schoolhouse that has been turned into a house. Fred did an awesome job grilling for us, the food was great. I'll post some pictures of them at their house later, as my camera battery died and I have to go steal them from Nicole's folder. Thanks for showing us a great time Laurie! Maybe we can do it again sometime.
After we were done with dinner we headed over to a near by playground. Again the kids loved every opportunity to run and have fun. I think they figured out if it took us a long car ride to get there another long car ride would eventually happen again.
More coming later. All about our visit to the Oil Museum.
