Family Fun

Last Friday Joel had the day off so we decided to try to find something to do as a family. We saw that Tempe Town Lake was having a Greek Festival, and it was free to get in, so we figured we would check it out. Plus they have that great Splash Park there so I figured if nothing else they could run around in the water.

When we got there it was pretty dead, but they had a kids area with all sorts of bounce houses and games. We decided to check it out, hoping that they were free too, but not holding our breathe. The guy said the that most of the bounce houses were one ticket and a couple of them were two tickets. Not bad, we figured the tickets were 50 cents or a dollar, so we went to go buy some. When we got to the ticket counter they had a sign posted that 1 ticket = $2.oo !!!!! Seriously, $4 to have both my boys go on a silly bounce house. Ridiculous! So, though the boys were dissapointed, we did not go on any of the bounce houses. We made our way over to the Splash Park, and there was a sign posted that it didn't open until the next day :( So far this family outing was not going so well.

So, instead, we walked down mill ave and stopped for some ice cream instead. That made the boys happy for a little bit but Kade wouldn't stop talking about how maybe the water would be on at the park when we were done with our ice cream. So, on our way back to the car we told him we would walk by just to make sure. It wasn't on, but there were some other kids playing on the slides so we let them play for a little bit. After about 5 minutes a "lifeguard" (I use this term very loosely) came over and said they were going to turn the water on to make sure everything was ready for the opening the next day. WOO HOO. We through there swim suits on and they had a lot of fun. Gavin is still very iffy about splash pads, they freak him out. But he loosened up a little bit and found some puddles to play in eventually.

all in all, the day ended it up being pretty good, and we only spent money on Ice cream!