110 degree heat and no sunscreen makes for a really nice sunburn

We took the kids to Silverwood Theme Park this last weekend. For those of you who don't know, it is a theme park in northern Idaho. It has a huge water park and the other half is the usual stuff (roller coasters, etc.). We had a great time, the kids had a blast. It opened at 11 am and closed at 10 pm, so we got there and spent the first half of the day in the water park.

We put sunscreen on, but we only had the spray stuff and found that it is really unreliable. Alex's chest and back are kinda striped - he didn't want me to include a pic so you'll just have to imagine it. He didn't think to put any sunscreen on his legs or feet, so they are a lovely shade of purple. The picture doesn't really do justice to the color.

At one point, we stood in a line for a ride for over half an hour. The ride was called Thunder Canyon. You and 7 other people climb into a giant sized inner tube and seatbelt yourself into a seat. You ride down man made raging rapids - and of course, you get wet. We watched people coming out, drenched and contemplated leaving the line several times. We stuck it out, and didn't regret it, even though we ended up soaked ourselves. Jarod got the worst of it, but he was a trooper. We played until the park closed, and sleepily drove about 15 miles down the road to a cute little campsite for the night.


The campgroud is set on a beautiful mountain lake with a great little inlet for swimming. The kids had a good time swimming in the lake and chasing a pair of ducks.
These last two pictures were taken the next day, after Silverwood. You can tell that the kids' sunscreen worked. Their faces were a little pink. My sunburn was patchy - the places we missed when we sprayed on the sunscreen.