Adventures of a Modern Farm Family: Santa’s Village and Tornado

On Wednesday June 12 I met my cousin, her boys and my godmother at Santa’s Village. It is an amusement park for younger kids. We had decided to go because we got coupons on Groupon for it. They expired on the 16^th and this was the only date that worked for all of us to go together. The weather that day was not ideal! We are talking storm warnings for the afternoon that included tornadoes, but we decided to go in the morning and leave at nap time and we would probably avoid the bad weather all together.

Joel isn't this great?!

First ride of the day!

Vincent and Joel having fun!

Cecilia and Mommy having fun in the truck ride.

Pretending to be fire fighters

So many facial expressions

Our plan worked perfectly! There were very few people brave enough/crazy enough to go to Santa’s Village when there was going to be bad weather. The park was not crowded and the kids were even able to stay on the rides and ride again without getting off. All three of my kids like the rides, especially the boys! They thought it was great since the rides were fun, made just for kids and there were no lines.

My little fire fighter

Aunt Kathy and Vincent going for a ride...Joel was in the backseat

Luke and Kristy

Brett driving Aunt Kathy

Joel and Vincent

Joel talking to the animals

Cecilia enjoying the animals and Vincent pouting because we weren't on a ride.

Joel cleaning up

He loves animals!

One of the cool things there was the aviary with parakeets. You could feed them using sticks that had bird food held on them with peanut butter. The birds would go crazy for it and fly right up to you and before you knew it you had at least 3 birds on you and more flying around. Vincent wasn't sure about it, Cecilia just wanted to hit the bird and Joel like to watch them but didn't want them near him. Joel loved the petting zoo. Cecilia liked it and Vincent was asking to leave after 2 minutes. Vincent got to ride a little roller coaster and he wasn’t tall enough to ride without an adult. My cousins had already left, so I asked some mom whose daughter was going on the roller coaster at the same time as Vincent and I if she could watch Joel and Cecilia who were strapped in the stroller and very unhappy. Well, they were only unhappy when I walked away. Joel was unhappy because he could ride with us and Cecilia was just mad I was walking away.

Cecilia about to swat at a bird

They loved me!

Vincent liked it as long as there were only a few birds by him

The very tall and fast slide. The boys loved it!

It was a great day! My godmother got us all ice cream and Vincent’s new favorite flavor is superman. On the way home we stopped by the field and gave Brad our left over lunch because he was starving. It was supposed to rain earlier in the day, so he didn't back a lunch. Then it was almost 4pm and it still had not rained, so Brad kept spraying. Then we headed back home and we were at home a good hour before the tornado siren went off. Even though we had a great time I don't think I would ever pay full price to go to Santa's Village.