Silver Dollar City

We picked a great day to do Silver Dollar City.  It was Monday and thank goodness it was pretty empty as far as amusement parks go.  Granted we went from opening and closed it down.  Gotta get your money's worth right??

Here is the gang on Dumbo as my kids call this ride.  

Papa Doc with all the stuff.  What a trooper, as he didn't go on any rides but just sat with all the stuff.

The Teacups.  "To big a Me."

Me and Papa Doc did a lot of bonding in this section of the park.  Everything went around in circles and fast and I do not do going in circles fast.

Here is Chase and Brian in the viking boats that you saw in the previous picture.

I did have to ride the Pirate Ship with Zander as we were short on adults.  For the record neither Zander or I wanted to ride this but we did what we were told.

So here's the thing about  being the oldest cousin on this vacation...You are tall enough to ride all the rides and you have to ride the kiddie roller coasters with the younger cousins.  

I guess me and Zander became quite the riding buddies.

We did find three tiny rides for the much younger cousins.

This was a ride that I thought for sure Tristen was going to throw up on.  So you see there are chairs facing forward and this huge disc spins in a circle while you go back and forth on this ramp.  Tristen looked as if he was going to die.  

See it there up in the trees as it heads up in one direction.

For lunch we ate in the caves and were very grateful for the coolness and BBQ Buffet.

Each kid had a penny to toss in the wishing well...not sure how some of the kids ended up with more than one penny when all was said and done.

Can you say "Please Papa Doc" with really pitiful little faces????  Yup as well as hook, line, and sinker.  These three managed to work on Papa Doc to buy them each a pony.  Us parents thought they would last maybe 15 minutes and then they would want us to carry them.  I have to admit that they rode them all through the park.  The saving grace was that the horses make all kinds of noise and Papa Doc didn't realize this till he was home with three very annoying and loud horses.

That is Tristen, Mary Alice, Chase, Brian, Zander, and Shannon on the American Plunge.  Poor Shannon sat in the back and ended up SOAKED !!!

Here is where I sat with the three youngest for about an hour.  Who would have thought that foam balls with shooters and vacuum hoses would keep these kids busy this long.....

Here is rounds three of four (yes, I said three or four) on this dang roller coaster.

Here we are at the end of the night on the carousel.

So Jenneth was absolutely dying to do these little kids swings.  Once she got on, she was not impressed.  She had ridden the adults swings a couple of times and every time she would go by, she would roll her eyes.  The lady next to me thought it was the funniest thing ever.

And the last photo of the night.  These two were not excited to have to leave.  "Just one more time..pleeeaassee"