Jellystone Park in Wisconsin

After driving through Minnesota and most of Wisconsin, we we're ready for a two night stay. We had reservations for none other than Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park. Dave does a great impression of Yogi and Boo Boo ("Hey Boo Boo, let's go take some pic-a-nic baskets.....").

Like all of the other places, we were going in blind, not knowing what to expect. Imagine the kids excitement when they saw the mini waterpark, jumping pillow, playground, and all of the Yogi Bear souvenirs in the store. Imagine Dave's excitement when I told him this was not a pull-through site (our first back-in on the trip). It was a pretty tight turn, but he got in!

God was sooo good to us! It had been raining and it stopped just before we pulled in. We got all set up and it was hot so we went swimming at the waterpark. It was great because Michael could go on all of the slides and it was still fun for the older kids. We had gone to an aquatic park while in Minnesota and Michael was about a quarter of an inch too short for the slides. He was very bummed.

The next day we got to experience a fabulous thunder storm. Luckily, we were in the trailer when it started. At one point Dave looked out and saw the awning sagging under the weight of the water. Picture Dave and I in the pouring rain, thunder and lightning (and mud) taking the awning down. It was quite a sight. The best part was later that day when Trevor and I were putting the awning back up and he said "Mom, you weren't supposed to roll it up wet, you're going to ruin it."

One of the great things about this park was we could stay there, relax, and there was also plenty of things for the kids to do right there in the park. There was mini-golf (with lots of mosquites), water wars (launching water balloons at each other) and the kids even got to wrestle an alligator. The playground really came in handy when Dave had to fix the wiring on the cord that got crimped during the trip (see his blog for further details).