On Thursday, Aaron and I went to The Enchanted Forest. It was his first time. He wasn't sure what it would all be about, but he loved it as soon as he got the idea.
Snow White is his very favorite movie, so we had to spend some extra time checking out the dwarfs' cottage and mine. No pics of that though.
Contemplating the entrance.
Much to my amazement and a little to my dismay, Aaron did not have one moment of hesitation about anything at The Enchanted Forest. He dove right into everything---from the rabbit hole to the shoe slide---he never looked back.
We had just had a serious talk about what this rabbit hole was all about and how that I would not be able to come in and get him once he was in---he would have to see it through to the end. So when I took his picture he was still making his, "yes, I am taking you very seriously" face.
In this video he comes back to check on me because he knows I am worried. You may have to copy and paste the links.
Here he goes again.
Here he is checking out the crooked house.
He really doesn't like "that mean old witch" in Snow White, but he LOVED the witch's mouth and the slide that came out of her. In this picture he is saying, "don't eat me!"
Here he is going down the shoe slide.
My scariest moment was when he was in the Indian Caves for what seemed like WAY too long for everything to be fine. He finally popped out on the other end under the tee-pee very proud of himself. I asked him what he had been doing in there for so long and he said, "I was exploring! It goes around and around and around!" So he went again and again and again. I got over being nervous.
Coming out of the caves.
He drove a bumper boat twice. Once with other kids to bump into and once when he was the only one. He didn't mind either way. He said, "I am driving a boat like my Papa!"
He got to be the engineer on the railroad.
And he rode a Ferris wheel all by himself.
We stopped by the water show, which he liked a lot. Afterward he wanted to know how it worked so we took a look at all the pipes. "Oh like sprinklers", he said. He looked up and said, "I think it is the lights that change the color of the water". No magic for this one I guess. :)
On our way out he decided he wanted to start at the beginning and go through it all again. Hilarious. So he picked three things he HAD to do again: the dwarfs' mine, the witch slide and the shoe slide. Unfortunately that meant hiking through half the forest again. Oh well.
We finished with a lovely picnic lunch and a nap in the car. A perfect summer day!
