We made it back mid afternoon today. I didn’t get as many good photographs as I would have liked but I think it was an good vacation anyway. I’ve got lots of things to write up this week but I haven’t had the energy today. Here’s a panorama of the water park. The pool that Alice and Charles spent their time is in the lower right, you can just see the far edge of it in the picture. I’m standing on the upper deck, which is the equivalent of the third floor. There’s one more pool that the kids didn’t really go in at the lower left, you can just see steps down in to it, plus another jacuzzi under the deck.
The gang watches the kinetic works — a rare photo of all three together
UPDATE: We spent some time after getting home cleaning the boys, who had managed to go uncleaned since we had left. When I tried to get Charles to take get clean, he objected in his strenuously passive way. The cutest bit was when he was laying on the stairs, claim to be too infirm to climb them. He’d climb a few steps on his stomach, then make pathetic little clutching motions with his hands on the next stair up, just like a scene from a cartoon as character desperately grabs for a handhold while sliding off a cliff. After failing to get purchase, Charles would slide back down the stairs he’d just climbed. Eventually, through random chance I suppose, he got up to the top of the stairs and then fled in to the parents bed to sulk. He remained there for a while until I got tired of waiting and called down “OK, Corwin, you get up here and take a shower”. Charles immediately lept out of bed and declared “but I taking a shower!”. Zoom, we got him naked, wet and washed. Charles then spent a good 15-20 minutes standing in the shower until I finally kicked him out. He was shivering with cold because I had kept the water temperature down, it being a hot day and because I asked Charles a couple of times “is the water the right temperature? do you want it warmer?” to which he had replied “it just right”. Nor, apparently, did it occur to him that if he was cold, he should ask for warmer water or out of the shower. I’m always amazed by what Charles considers changeable vs. fixed.