A Fun Trip

Daniel and I returned last night from an overnight trip with some of the kids to a water park and amusement park. This trip was a reward for those children who have been on the top level of the behavioral system for four straight weeks and who also did well in school (the school year here ended in October and a new one will begin in January).

We left early Thursday morning and it took us about 4 hours to get there. We were very impressed by how nice both of the parks were! They were clean, well-landscaped and had a variety of great rides. They also were not very crowded so it was great not having to wait in long lines. It was so neat to watch the kids' reactions because most, if not all, had never seen an amusement park before. Their faces lit up and some weren't sure what to do.

The kids had a great time and so did we.... inspite of a wipeout that Daniel and I had on one of the water slides. We were on a two-person raft in an inclosed tunnel that let out into a large funnel, where we were whirled around and sucked throught the bottom of the funnel into another tube which let out into the pool. The problem occurred when we were sucked through the funnel backwards and with our weight differences, when Daniel hit the second tube first, our raft flipped over on and we broke the fall with our heads. We received matching goose eggs and pretty bad headaches. Some of the personnel quickly came to assist us and asked if we spoke English, if we wanted to see a doctor, if they could get us ice, etc. We just took Advil though and stuck to the wave pool and lazy river with the little kids after that!

As soon as we returned last night and were walking to retrieve our luggage, we saw little Kevin already talking a mile a minute, bragging to his friends about everything that he had experienced. I am sure that will encourage some of the others to work a little harder the next time to be on the top behavioral level!