And the grande finale - Thunder Island!

Well, it's sad, but we knew this day would come - the last day of the 2008 DeGaetano Staycation. For day #5 we went to Thunder Island - a small, family-owned water park in Fulton, NY. It only has four adult rides and three kiddie rides, but it also has miniature golf, go-karts and a ferris wheel (and is way closer and way cheaper than Enchanted Forest!). Also, two of the adult rides can be ridden by small children if they are accompanied by an adult, which we took advantage of, of course! Anyhow, it was perfect weather for such a day, and we thoroughly enjoyed it. There are not a lot of pictures in this blog - I was too busy riding rides and splashing around to snap photos all day!

Maria loved the lazy river - she went around and around and around and around...

Maria messing around with the sprinklers

Maria going down one of the kiddie slides

Maria and Daddy playing around in the wading pool (Maria would have spent hours in that pool - she thought it was the coolest!) The slides that you see in the background here are the two kiddie slides - they were so cool because they were pint sized, and emptied in the wading pool which was only about 18 inches deep, plenty shallow enough to make it safe for almost all sizes. Also, the slide on the left was a big wide one (wide enough to fit 4 or 5 people across!) that was a straight shot down - perfect for a family like ours to go down all together!