Harriman Cousins

This week we had a visit from the other Harriman clan, Randy, Lindsay, Reese, Eli, and Hannah came too. They stayed for a few days before traveling on down to Destin for the rest of the week. Wish I was going with them! But we found some fun things to do here, and Mary Ella always loves playing with her cousins!

Sunday we went to the Children's Museum. It was fun for all! This tractor is ME's favorite thing...Daddy enjoyed it too. It was the first time he had been, and I think he expected it to be boring because it is a "museum."

The big boys helping ME move logs.

And working the crane...where are the kids?

Typical Ranjo face

Eli milking the cow.

ME trying to hang upside down like Reese.

Back to the tractor

We promised the boys a trip to Bass Pro if they went to the museum (like they didn't have enough fun). We played in the kid section and tried to keep them awake.

They were pooped!

Monday was an adventure. We got up, got ready, packed a lunch, and drove an hour to Geyser Falls, a water park, in Philadelphia. When we got there it was closed because of the weather. It wasn't raining, but they said there was a flash flood watch. We knew there was a chance of rain, and I could understand if it had been lightning or storming, but there was no flood, and who closes a water park because of a 40% chance of rain? So, we had lunch on a picnic table outside of the water park, packed it up, and headed home. We decided to drive to the Jackson Zoo, which took an hour and a half from where we were. The skies were clear until we got there, and then it started raining. The train was closed, the carousel was closed. Hmmm...we went in anyway. It sprinkled just enough to keep us cool, the animals were out, and we had the place all to ourselves. I think I would have preferred getting rained on at a water park as opposed to a zoo, but at this point we didn't care. And we were in our bathing suits and coverups anyway. After our short excursion to the zoo, I suggested taking the kids to the splash area at the Renaissance since they were all looking forward to getting in the water. Even Mary Ella was expecting "the pool."

I think they enjoyed it as much as anything, and the adults got to sit down and rest and watch. Don't think the water park would have been so relaxing.

And we found that all of the Harriman cousins enjoy squatting down and letting water shoot them in the rear. Ha!

Plus Geyser Falls doesn't have a Maggie Moos! Yum!

Is that a sprinkle? ME was covered in her blue cotton candy ice cream, but I just threw her back in the fountains. Fun times with the cousins!