Here is part 2 of our 3-part review of our awesome trip to Southern Indiana.

In part 2, you’ll see that we went to Santa’s Lodge, Santa’s Candy Castle, the Santa Claus Museum, and Holiday World and Splashin’ Safari.

First, we ate at Santa’s Lodge. Inside Santa’s Lodge was all Christmas stuff and it was so cool! And we ate breakfast and the food was good! I ate bacon, some potato stuff, more bacon, fruit loops, and scrambled eggs! And the rest of the food was french toast sticks, pancakes, sausage patties, other kinds of cereal. I think that’s all!

Then we went to Santa’s Candy Castle and there were 31 different flavors of candy canes and lots of other homemade candies! I tried a raspberry lemon candy cane! It was a little bit sour, but it didn’t make me pucker. It was good. I would also like to try the watermelon flavor and I think there is a flavor called lemon lime, and apple, and bubble gum-filled bubble gum flavor. Liberty and Noah are going to tell you the rest of the trip! Lena

After the candy castle, we went to the Santa Claus Museum. It was really excellent looking at all the old Santa Claus stuff! And the dancing Santa was kind of cool, too!  Some things  in the museum looked kind of creepy, but it was a neat museum and I liked looking at all the stuff there! They even had old letters to Santa and it showed a difference in what kids asked for back in the old days. It was really fun at the Santa Claus Museum!

After the museum, we went to Holiday World and Splashin’ Safari. It was super fun there. Noah will tell you about the big rides because he rode the big rides. Lena and I don’t really like big rides. But there was a bunch of fun stuff there for us to do. First of all, I should tell you that there was free sunblock and FREE pop all over the park! People at the park can get pop, lemonade, or water whenever they want. For FREE! All day long! And there was never a line to get a drink.

First, we went to Splashin’ Safari and we went to the Congo River and The Wave pool! It was just like a regular pool, except with waves! It was really awesome! Then, we went to Kima Bay and Lena and I didn’t play on it because we were too cold. After that, Lena went on Watubee (she said it was fun, but a little scary because she was on the side that goes whoosh up the side of the tube), but I went to the Holiday World part. First went on the HalloSwings! They were really, really fun. We sat on the swings, then all the swings lifted up, and it made us fly around a bunch! It was really sweet! Then, we went to the ScareCrow Scrambler. We sat in seats and then it spun us all around! Then, we went to The 4th of July part of the park and we went on old fashioned cars that we drove around. I think it was called the Lewis & Clark Trail. It was kind of hard to press on the gas pedal. Then we went to ThanksGiving! We were going to go on the Gobbler Getaway but I read the sign and it said that it would have some pitch black moments with some lightning! So it sounded scary and we didn’t go on it. But then, I looked in the window of it, and it had electronic people! I don’t like electronic people. So I’m glad we didn’t go on it! Then we watched people go down the Pilgrims Plunge!! I would never ever go on it! It looks so scary! But I think Noah will tell you about it! Liberty

Okay, my review of holiday world is a 8/10 because some of the rides were fun and some were boring. The Raven was the first roller coaster I went on and it was the second best one because 1, it was fast and 2, it was rickety and could loosen a few molars and jar some brains. The next coaster I went on was The Legend. It was the third best and really wasn’t that fast or wild. It was pretty long so that was good. Then next was The Voyage. This was the best coaster I went on because it was long, very, very, very, very, very, very, very tall and very fast but one thing you don’t want to do is sit in the same row with someone who drank 5 Mountain Dews before he got on…..And the last one we went on was Pilgrims Plunge. It was the worst one, yet okay. So number one DO NOT go on this thing if you are afraid of heights because it goes up very, very, very high on an elevator with no sides basically, (but the thing tips a little as you’re going up and this one lady screamed). So we waited in line for like 45 minutes and then it turned out to be about a 20 second ride, which was a waste of time. And don’t sit in the front row if you’re hoping to get soaked. Sit in the BACK row, which I know makes no sense but people got the wettest back there, so yeah. In all, I give the coasters a 9/10 and the water slides a 7/10 but the WHOOOOOOLLLLEEE park I give a 1000000/10  if you want a fun family-friendly place to spend a weekend, I would recommend Holiday World highly! Noah

We visited Southern Indiana for 3 days! We visited a bunch of places, but this post is all about our first day, which was in Lincoln City. We did a bunch of Abe Lincoln stuff! There was a play, “LINCOLN,” and it was awesome!! When they showed parts of the Civil War in the play it would go BOOM and people would scream and there was one random thing that one girl in the play said: “Oh dear Alex! I need you desperately right now!!” It was so random!

Lena

Before the play, we visited Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial and Living Historical Farm. I liked the living farm because it showed the old-fashioned stuff that Lincoln probably grew up with. After that, we went to Lake Rudolph Campground and RV Resort in Santa Claus, Indiana. It was awesome! You can rent an RV instead of just bringing a tent! There’s a pool and a beach and a playground and Coke machines all over.

Then we went back to Lincoln City to see the Lincoln Bicentennial Plaza and to see the play and eat a yummy Amish dinner. I liked the rolls and the chicken. The play was really cool and I liked it. We’ll tell about the rest of our trip (Holiday World, Surfin’ Safari, Leavenworth Inn, and Marengo Caves) soon! Liberty

The video shows our behind-the-scenes tour of Kalahari Waterpark and Resort in Sandusky, OH that Maris Brenner and Mike Thatcher gave us when we were there for the Unschoolers Winter Waterpark Gathering in February. The tour was interesting, but the most fun at Kalahari is the wave pool!

Other fun things are the arcade and mini golf,

the hot tub, the indoor playplace, the basketball swimming pool, the lazy river, the obstacle course,and the water slides! Some of them were too scary for us, but there were some that were just right for us.

Here’s what we did at Kalahari: After playing all day in the waterpark, at night we went to the arcade, and then we went to the hotel room, which was super cool and pretty and big! And then we went to sleep in the comfy beds and then we did the same thing the next day.

Here are some questions that Maris Brenner answered for us:

Lena wanted to know where they get the baby animals for the pictures?

Maris told us the animals don’t live at Kalahari. A local company has a farm that raises them and Kalahari only gets them for a very short time until they’re too big. So they travel back and forth to work every day. When we got our picture taken with one cub, there was also a little tiger cub sleeping with a big stuffed tiger. It was cute! And then the cub we took our picture with was scooching around on his ball.

Liberty wondered what is Kalahari’s busiest season? Maris said any weekend and any time that kids are not in school is really busy. She said that’s why they love the unschoolers so much, because we go in the middle of the week when they wouldn’t normally be busy.

Noah wanted to know how long it takes to make a water slide. Maris said that was a very good question and she had never been asked that before! Just putting the slide up takes about 2 or 3 months, but getting all of the water and electrical connections going takes a lot longer, like about 9 months.

We’re so happy that we went to Kalahari and we’re going back next month! Go to their website and look at all of the other things they have like the spa, Pottery Pizazz, shopping, and restaurants! Do it NOW!

Lena and Liberty

PS All pictures are courtesy of Kalahari

Kushies’ My Bag is a pretty awesome bag! It’s way better than stuffing all of your things into a backpack! And it’s cool because it comes with everything instead of buying it separately! Isn’t that really awesome?! And I like it way better than my small Hello Kitty light pink backpack! Cuz I don’t like light pink…Well, I don’t like pink..But hot pink and orange is better than light pink! And it also is pretty! Here’s the one I have:

And here it is in blue:

And guess what? Kushies is giving you a 10% discount on any order! Just use the code kks10 when you order from their website! Isn’t that cool? They have lots of other cute stuff.

Liberty