Michigan's Adventure

After our day with Nick and Amy and crew, it was off to my sister Heather's for a long weekend.  It's been a while since we've seen Heather, so we were especially excited to spend time with her.  She planned fun and perfect activities for each day, kicking off at the amusement park Michigan's Adventure.  For the girls' summer birthdays she treated our whole family to this outing. 

Michigan's Adventure was the perfect sized park for our family.  They had lots of rides that were just our speed and we had a ball screaming on the roller coasters and watching a good-sport Auntie ride the spinny rides with her enthusiastic nieces.

Dave and Heather even rode on Shivering Timbers, their famous wooden roller coaster that is pretty much just one leave-your-stomach-behind drop after the next! 

(Love this picture of Delia giving Auntie Heather a ride in HER convertible!)

What was great about Michigan's Adventure was that it was also a water park!  Heather couldn't remember the last time she rode on a water slide, so this part of the park took the better part of our day.  It was also where our sides started aching from laughing so hard.

I didn't carry my camera around the water slides, so I don't have pictures of some  of best memories-- Delia shrieking with delight in the wave pool and then crying in anger about how wet she got on the rapids ride, racing down the black tunnel slides while screaming our heads off, a peaceful float around the "lousy river", or having to work for the family raft ride by hauling the 2-ton tube up a million steps ourselves.

The ride that won the day was the Funnel of Fear.  The Funnel of Fear features a huge in-the-dark drop that lets out into this humongous toilet bowl, or funnel, where you fly up the sides until you eventually loose momentum and flush out a hole in the bottom.  We rode it over and over and it was terrifying each time!

I am a big fan of a present that is an experience rather than a thing.  Spending the day laughing and screaming together at Michigan's Adventure was a gift for all of us!  When talking about which one day of vacation we'd relive if we could, we all agreed this day would be it!