Eagle Island State Park

Last Saturday we took the kids to Eagle Island State Park. It's only 2 or 3 miles from our house, but in all the 6 years we've lived here, we've never gone. It's only $5 for entry, and we had a coupon for free entry, so we didn't have to pay that. When we got there and headed over to the water, we instantly regretted coming on a Saturday. It was packed with people everywhere. I was really worried about trying to keep an eye on all 5 kids in the water, so we skipped the whole beach thing and headed over to the water slide. We had a coupon for 10 free rides, and then we bought 10 more, so each of the 4 older kids got 5 rides on the slide.













Nate wasn't tall enough to go on the slide, and he was really not happy about that. Here he is showing me just how tall he is.


To try and make Nate feel better, Scott bought him a snow cone to eat while the older kids were doing the water slide. It definitely made Nate happy.





Owen wasn't so sure about the snow cone--it was COLD!





After the kids used up the 20 rides, they were begging for more. Nate was begging Scott to let the kids go on more rides, too (which I thought was odd, because he had been so upset that he didn't get to go on the slide in the beginning). Scott gave in and bought 20 more rides for the kids to share.


The kids headed off up the hill to the top of the slide....


And then Nate turned to Scott and said quite emphatically, "Now lets go buy me more treats!!!". Scott agreed, and they headed off to the concession stand. This time they came back with Air Heads.

By the time the kids had used up the second set of tickets (they each ended up getting to go 10 times), we decided it was time to head home. The kids didn't want to leave, but I promised them I'd bring them back to play in the water during the week when it wasn't so busy.