Happy Holidays!!

This past Saturday, Me, Molly, and Bryan decided to hit "Holiday World," a theme park located about three hours south of their home in a city named Santa Claus, IN. We weren't really sure what to expect of a random theme park situated somewhat in the middle of nowhere, but thought we would give it a whirl anyway!


We left early in the morning, scheduled to arrive right as the park was opening, but came across a few unexpected delays. . .

Molly didn't have time to finish painting her toenails before leaving so she decided to finish them in the car but very quickly learned that it was harder than she thought, therefore, Bryan was instructed to pull over so that she could finish.


Then we had to stop for gas and snacks of course! We also decided that it might be good to have some cash on hand in the park so we had to find a bank. While Bryan was in the bank, Me and Molly had a fireball eating contest, who could keep the fireball in their mouth the longest. I think we tied??


Then, being that we were so close to Indiana University, Bryan wanted to detour a little just to see the stadium (boys and sports- seriously!) While traveling along the campus, We passed this kissing statue that Molly just had to get a picture with!

After all the delays though- we finally made it!


A few random perks of Holiday World included:
All you can drink FREE soda. They just had these cute little soda oasis stands that you just served yourself!
FREE parking!
FREE sunscreen! So it was a pretty sweet deal to begin with!


Basically Holiday World consisted of two parks within one; a water park, and a regular amusement park. We hit the water park first being that it was morning and we thought that people wouldn't want to start the day getting wet. We found out ultimately that this was a fabulous idea because the lines for the rides started pretty dang short! We left a few hours into it as lines were getting longer and after we got on most everything we wanted. The downfalls however? No carrying cameras on water rides therefore no pictures, and then because of the water and being wet, our pictures from the rest of the day are not the cutest because of new wet hair/face issues. . . oh well!

After drying off we were ready for the second half of the day. The park was broken down into different areas according to holidays. There was a Christmas Land, Thanksgiving, 4th of July, and Halloween Land. It was cute, but felt odd at times when you would come across random Christmas music playing in the middle of the summer!




There were a lot of fun, random rides and we ultimately found our favorites! We even got kind of wimpy Molly onto a roller coaster that she ended up LOVING and therefore we repeated and repeated and repeated it! So that was a definite fun surprise.

There was one ride that looked so stinkin scary that Bryan could not get Me or Molly on. It was called The Pilgrim's Plunge and it looks frightening! So Molly and I hung out and waited while Bryan waited in an hour and a half long line to make the dreaded plunge! We rather enjoyed the relaxing break and got some fantastic pictures of Bryan!




About a half an hour before the water park was closing we noticed that the lines were extremely short! Me and Molly LOVE water parks so it was very tempting to strip down to our bathingsuits to jump back in but knew we would be unhappy drippy and wet again for such a short amount of time. So Bryan jumped backed in for the group which made me and Molly happy because now we could get some fun water park pictures! Sorry-- that is why they are all of Bryan!




Oh yes- we also got to eat some yummy snacks too! Deep Fried Oreos-- YUMMY!


Just like any fun filled day- there was so much to do and so much to see, it is so hard to tell about and show everything you can experience in just a one day trip! We had a fantastic time though, and spent the three hour drive home (in hopes of keeping Bryan (our driver) awake) discussing our favorite and least favorite parts of the trip, what we would do different next time, what our biggest regrets, the weirdest people we saw, our favorite rides, the rides we wished we got to go on, etc. etc. etc. It was a pretty silly conversation, but in the end we all agreed that we are fans of Holiday World and we will definitely be back!