On My Way to Where the Air is Sweet

We certainly got around last week, Wyatt. On a last minute impulse, Dad and I decided to take you to Sesame Place. We have been trying to plan this short 2.5 hour trip to Pennsylvania all summer and never seemed to be able to get it together. Then Dad had to do some simulator training in PA and POOF the seed was planted. I booked a hotel on Friday for our trip on Saturday-Monday. Give me a few hours and I'll give you the world, my little Wyatt.

Of course, we get there and have less then perfect weather. Remind me to tell you the time when Gammy let a 5 year old me go with a 18 year old Uncle Tim to Sesame Place. At least it wasn't struck by lightening. It was kind of cloudy and slightly overcast but we were lucky enough to hit the park in between rain storms. You adored the Count's Splash Castle although a little intimidated by the water splashing in your face. In all honesty, it was barely controlled chaos with children running in every direction and water turning on and off, shooting all over the place. I was a little intimidated.

We hit the carousel, a great time. Dad took you on this flying Dorothy Fish ride that you seemed to enjoy. Funny story about that, Dad seemed to have a hard time getting your fish up as high as everyone else's. I had to speculate that he was probably the only pilot on the ride that couldn't fly his fish. He said there was some kind of malfunction but it seemed to work just fine for the rest of the day. I think your favorite was this Big Birds Nest thing, which was just a bouncy pit with tons of huge blocks in it. You ran around with abandon, never looking back to see where we were. You loved stacking these blocks up then flopping yourself on them and rolling to the ground. We spent a lot of time there.

Thankfully, day number two turned out to have a heat advisory. All I wanted to do was go on the Lazy River. You weren't thrilled about wearing a life jacket but once we go you in the water you really loved it. We pushed Dad through a lot of the waterfalls and even got him to flip his tube over. You kept pointing at the roller coaster all day and pulling me towards it. I know you really wanted to go on it. I had to keep on explaining that it looked like great fun but you would probably puke. I am sure it was a fast train to you. Next time, buddy, next time.