Brother-Sister Weekend

This weekend while Dan was California dreamin, Mallory, Micah, and Morgan came to Louisville for a visit. We had been planning this weekend all summer and it finally arrived! We had made plans to go to Holiday World and do anything else that sounded fun. Although the forecast was calling for a scorcher of a weekend, we weren't intimidated and didn't let the heat keep us from having good times for a few days.

They all arrived Thursday night from the respective ends of the state. After getting food and a quick trip to Target, we hung out at our apartment and rested from the long days we all had from either shopping, driving or working.

Our plan was to leave Louisville at 9:30 am Friday for Holiday World, and we surprisingly got "up and at em" pretty easily. Morgan was the only one of us that had been to Holiday World before, and we were all excited to get to Santa Clause, IN and get inside the park.

We thought that going on a Friday might make for smaller crowds and shorter lines, but the park was crowded! The heat index wasn't keeping anyone away! (Can you believe we saw people in jeans??? long sleeves??? sweat pants of all things???) We rode a couple of rides in the amusement park before heading to Splashin Safari water park, which is where we spent the majority of our day. We never got extremely overheated; I guess the water slides and shaded staircases were enough to keep us oblivious of the temperature. Each water slide was really fun and we all had a blast.



Gotta get a photo with Santa!





Morg is enjoying some ice cream before we left the park.



We got back into Louisville around 8:00 and ordered pizza from The Sicilian and picked it up on our way back to my apartment. We were all exhausted and enjoyed relaxing for the rest of the evening.

Saturday morning we had waffles and bacon for breakfast, after sleeping in of course! We didn't have much of an agenda for the day except to go to the Bats game at 6:00 pm. Again, we were aware of the forecast, but were determined to have a good time anway. After a short trip to the mall we arrived at Louisville Slugger Field around 5:30. I'm sure we each secretly thought "Oh my gosh, am I really about to sit out in this heat....on purpose?"

We bought our tickets when we got to the stadium, and bought the best remaining seats that just happened to be right in the sun. We made our way to our section and settled into the hot seats.



View from our section





Gotta get some Cracker Jacks!





I know this picture is dark, but I had to capture the best part of the day: the sun going down!



Althought the Bats lost and it was miserably hot, I think we all ended up having a good time. After the game we drove just across the river to Rocky's, an Italian restaurant with a great view of the Louisville skyline. When the hostess asked if we would like to sit inside or on the patio, we all said "inside please!" We needed some air conditioning! Dinner was great: Morgan got a serious Caesar salad fix, Micah enjoyed pasta, which she loves, and Mal and I got our sweet tooth satisfied with a quick trip to The Widow's Walk Creamery, a walk-up ice cream parlor in Indiana with an incredible view of Louisville.

We slept in again and soon the out-of-towners were on their way home. It was a really fun weekend that was the last big summer event for those of us starting back to school soon. Morgan and Micah kept us entertained, Mal kept us organized and clean, and I kept us fed. It was a good brother-sister weekend.

Random Quote from Morgan:

"Getting your driver's license is a lot like shaving. It's really fun at first but gets old after like three months."