A Trip to Carowinds (Day 1)

Instead of getting "regular birthday" presents for the kids, Kathy & George decided to take them all to Carowinds (all of us) for two days! The weather was quite SURPRISING for the middle of July. Day 1 was sunny and warm enough to do the water park, but not so hot it was unbearrable! Perfect weather day!!!! I don't have many pictures from our first Day at Carowinds because we spent the majority of this day at Boomerang Bay, the waterpark. We have never done that waterpark before. There's enough there to do for about half the day (we were in there from about 11:30 until around 5ish), and the boys had a blast! Logan was tall enough to do the lazy river, the green "family" slide, the "pink slide" (which he LOVED!!!!), and a smaller version of one (which he hated because he ripped his toenail off). His FAVORITE part of the day was spent in the LARGE wave pool. Austin, of course, could do it all! He did the BIG, body pipe slide...and was NOT a fan! He said it was "HORRIBLE" and hurt/scratched his back, and banged his head. He and Caleb were the only ones to do that slide, and the quote of the day had to be Caleb when he came off that slide..."It was TERRIBLE!!!! THAT THING IS A DEATH TRAP!"


One thing I like about Carowinds is the way they measure the kids (if you take them over there) for their height, and they put an armband on the kids. This eliminates having to be measured at each ride. You can see Logan trying to stretch out to meet the height he was wanting. We only had one issue with a ride "not complying," but next time we know what to do!



All four Taylor grandkids...Kamy, Caleb, Austin, and Logan...on the way in!


Logan and Pa-paw pausing for a picture with a Snoopy. Logan is really not into "character things" at all (unless it's Power Rangers or Star Wars related). I still think the only reason he stopped to pose for me is because I said, "with Pa-paw!"

When we were done with the waterpark, we went to check in at the hotel, changed clothes, and headed back to Carowinds around 8. In the two hours the park was still open, they actually got to ride LOTS!!! There were practically NO lines at anything! It was wonderful!!!!! The craziest ride of the night was Austin riding the Intimidator with his Uncle Zack (Picture to come soon)! We watched the firework display before heading out and crashing at the hotel! Gotta get ready for Day 2....