NH Trip-Saturday-Story Land

We were up bright and early Saturday morning and ready to go to Story Land.  The problem was we were 5 minutes away and it didn't open until 9.  We puttered around a bit and then made a quick stop at DD's (of course) and went to the park.

We got in line a bit before 9 to get our tickets.  Upon entering the park we were instructed (by our FB friends) to head right for the Antique Cars because the line gets long.  So this is what we did.  What bewildered (and annoyed) me was kids riding solo in the cars.  A family of 5 used 3 cars because each child wanted to drive.  This made the line move extremely slow and made me a bit cranky.  It ended up happening at every ride where there was a "driver".  I know our time for this hasn't come yet because we just let Eli drive.  It will come eventually and I haven't decided how we'll handle it...

Eli's in the driver's seat...watch out!!!

I love that the Speed Limit is "3".

Dave-Ben-Sam

(Eli-Renee-Nate are in the front seat)

Watch out!  It's a tunnel!!!

Conviently right outside the Antique cars was the train.  I was glad to do this at the start of the day so we could see the park and get ideas of what we'd like to do.

Nate

Ben-Sam

Sam

Eli

Choo Choo!!! Comin' through!

The BeaNS continue to shout "All Aboard!" all day long!

Then we went on a million more rides.  That was one of the benefits of Story Land (as opposed to Santa's Village).  There were a lot of rides to choose from that the whole family could enjoy.  Dave and Eli also went on a few "big kid" rides by themselves.

Eli's got his license!!!

The BeaNS did not enjoy the pirate ship...oops!

Eli got to row.

The 3 little pigs

sand box time!

There was also a small section of the park reserved for littles.  This was perfect for our littles!  The could run free (sort of).

Little Mr. Muffet sat on his tuffet

Then more rides!!!

Alice's teacups.

Look at the sheer joy on Nate & Sam

and the sheer panic on Ben

Look!  I'm in a picture!

Dave & Eli on the flying fish

to the left of the guy in the red shirt.

I set the BeaNS up to get squirted...He...He...He!

Ben-Dave-Sam

on the Twirling Turtles

check out the expressions again...

Eli & Nate driving a tractor

Sam & Ben driving a tractor

BeaNS play in the sprinkler

while Eli & Dave go on this splashy thing

The obligatory Story Land picture

Dave-Ben-Eli-Humpty-Nate-Renee-Sam

The one thing I really liked about Story Land was the "Mom's rooms".  They were in the same building as the bathrooms.  Each Mom Room had rocking chairs for nursing moms and a GIANT STABLE changing table.  The BeaNS hate the wobbly-drop-down-from-the-wall changing tables.  I would drive the wagon into the room and unload and change one baby at a time.  Each time I went in the room was vacant so I wasn't interrupting any nursing time.

We also really enjoyed the Fried Oreos and Hawaiian Shaved Ice---Yummers!!!

For dinner, it was suggested we go to the Muddy Moose by some FB friends.  Other FB friends said this was a bad idea.  Because we didn't have internet and couldn't remember what other restaraunts were suggested so we went.  Well...they don't take call-ahead table reservations.  They kept us waiting longer than they promised.  The food was ok, but our waitress was sweet.  The boys did ok even though they hadn't gotten a nap and were a wee bit grumpy. 

waiting for dinner at the Muddy Moose

E-B-S-N

Poor Natey...

It did start raining a bit while we were waiting for dinner.  But it didn't rain one drop on us while we were in the park!  Yay for the weather being on our side!!!!

Then after dinner we wanted to torture ourselves and our children a bit more so we ran over to the outlets.  We only went to 2 stores and were home fast!