Jam packed day!

Yesterday morning we left the house at 8:45am, and we didn't get home until almost 13 hours later. Our first stop was to ride a one hour trolley ride in Scranton. The ride started at the Steamtown National Historic Site. We ate our packed lunch in the van as we drove the short ride to Montage Mountain, a ski resort. At the resort we played miniature golf and then spent about four hours in the water park. They had a wave pool, lazy river, and three different types of water slides. Nadia and Ian were tall enough to ride all of them, but only Nadia rode the biggest one (with Paul). Oliver was tall enough to ride two different types, but he only rode the one where you laid on your belly on a mat. They rode that one many times. We got dinner at Burger King (using a gift card) on the way back home.

About half way home we stopped in Berwick to see Cars 3 at the movie theater. Because of our WVIA membership, the trolley ride, miniature golf, and water park were totally free. The kids also got free tickets to see the movie plus they each got a free drink and a free popcorn.

Oliver picked a bottle of water, and the other two picked a cup of fruit flavored iced tea. Paul and I had to pay for our movie tickets, which were $5 each. I didn't buy any food or drink. Paul got himself a popcorn and soda for $3 total. We also had purchased a snack at the water park that we shared. So all in all our jam packed day cost us $19.25 plus the gasoline to get there and back. My first choice would have been to take them there to see Despicable Me 3, but that would have involved making a special trip out there whereas it was on our way home to see Cars 3 last night. We'll just wait until Despicable Me 3 comes out on DVD. This was a rare treat to see a new release in the theater. Usually we just wait until we can check it out on DVD from the library (for free).

At first it was in my opinion a little too chilly to go swimming, but eventually the sun came out and I was in the wave pool, lazy river, and did the mat water slide. Ian is always the one most prone to shivering. Of the three kids he spent the most time out of the water. I would say we will definitely plan on renewing our

WVIA membership in December. It is well worth the money!

This morning we stayed home, and then after lunch we went to the Milton swimming pool. It was free to get in there today because Milton is celebrating their bicentennial this week. They were giving away many freebies today including popcorn, candy, bottles of water, etc. It was cooler today (in the 70's) so I didn't even wear my bathing suit. I read a little bit. They had a water slide that Nadia and Ian went down many times. One of Nadia's softball teammates was there, and they had fun swimming together. After swimming we went to Walmart and the library and then to horseback riding lesson #2. Ian rides Beau, Nadia rides Baye, and Oliver rides Clyde.