Slip, sliding fun

Well well I am a fortunate woman...

The weather was gorgeous today and the heat was great, I do love the return of the summer sun after a few days of gray skies.

Yesterday T, RC and I talked about a family outing (today), and we'd agreed T could bring a friend as well.

After picking up her girlfriend, we made the mid morning trek across cities till we could smell the fresh air.

It was where the air smelled like ocean and the sounds of lively amused happy people joined as one, that we pulled in to our destination.

Jumping out of the vehicle, and grabbing our day's luggage, we descended upon this place of fun.

We made camp, after finding a clear area amongst the many other families, having a very similar day to ours.

Shedding our clothes, down to our bathing suits, we sat together and ate a wonderful cold picnic lunch.

Then it happened.

We stood in line but for a few minutes before it was out turn.

Each of us grabbed an inner-tube and hoisting it over our heads, we made the climb up to the start of the Big Jim's River Run.

Quickly we four were given the nod of approval and

SPLASH

each of us drops our tubes into the water, climbs our butts inside them
and starts to shoot down, this twisty river run all the while
holding on to our tubes for dear life and
laughing at the predicaments of one another

What fun.

We ate copious amounts of bad snack foods, and hung out sunning together all day. Well, in between going down slide after slide.

Water slides are a a blast for people of any age - we got tuckered out from all the activity.

I was having such a great day that when I realized the time, it became apparent that we needed to start making our way of the park area and into the vehicle. Six and half hours of water fun is about enough in my book.

Driving home, both teenagers in the back seat fell asleep. It was a sight to behold, two very exhausted girls sleeping for the entire return trip.