July 23- Arrive, Bear Country and Water park.

We got up early- for me that is and we were on the road by 7:30. We arrived in Rapid City at about 1 and things could not have worked out better. Tyler and his family and Wendy & Joe and Kim & Ryan were only 10 mile out. Grandma and Grandpa Bauer arrived about 30 minutes later. We checked in and tried to keep Ethan from not going crazy- he wanted to go to the water park REALLY bad! First we headed out to Bear Country. You drive through the first part. It was pretty crazy when a bear is only inches- yes, I said inches away even if a car door was between us. Then we walked through baby land and saw the otters, badgers, foxes, skunks, baby bears, lynx and more that I cant remember the names of. We had a great time and are very thankful that Tyler and Jen would allow us to pile into their car with them.

After that we headed back to the hotel to enjoy the water park. Two hotels are connected by the same indoor water park. There was a child's part that had three slides of there own Ethan loved these ones because he did not have to wait in line and could go down by himself, he also took Addison down one- it was really cute. Although Ethan also loved to go down the big slides as well. After going around the lazy river several time Tyler told me that I could take Addison with me down the slides. I wasn't sure if she would like it or not - well she LOVED it. I would asked her it she wanted to go again and she would run to the stairs, even through she was shivering. After we would go down a few slides I would take her over to the hot tub. She also LOVED this and would want to float on her back. Trent and I had several people ask us how old she was and tell us how brave she was in the water. We didn't take our camera so I took picture just before we left. We had a blast at the water park.