Holiday World – Big Splash Adventure

picked the girls up around 1:00 PM on Saturday May 29th and we headed down to Southern Indiana. We listened to my Spotify playlist on the way. We were going to stop at the Shops in Edinburgh on the way down. However Google Maps had other plans as far as directions.

We arrived in Jasper in the late afternoon. I looked on my phone for my hotel reservations and couldn’t find a confirmation email. I called 3-4 hotels in Jasper and non of them had a reservation for us. The girls went into Wal-Mart in Jasper and Zarah bought a swim suit. She had forgotten hers.

I called Deeya and she said she would look for a room for us. While that was going on we went to Taco Bell and ate inside

We made it to the hotel and unpacked. Right next door on the same property was a movie theater. We decided to walk next door and see Cruella. The theater filled up pretty quickly.
All 3 of us liked the movie quite a bit.

We walked back to the room. Zarah announced a strict lights out of 11:30 P.M.

Azure is always complaining that Zarah hogs up the beds at night…. Guess tonight was payback.

Sunday morning we drove to downtown Jasper and went to Denny’s for Breakfast. They were super short handed and said it would take about 40 minutes to get food to our table.

We had just found out that Santa Claus Indiana was an hour later than Jasper Indiana. That meant we had an extra hour to kill. So we were fine with the wait.

Santa Claus Indiana is about 25 minutes from Jasper. We arrived about 15 minutes after Holiday World opened.

The girls rode the Legend Coaster as soon as we got there The weather was perfect all day. maybe even a little cool.

The girls spent a lot of time at the water park however I didn’t take any pictures. We had Pizza, French Fries and Uncrustables for lunch.

We went through the Gobbler Getaway. However we had no idea what it was when we went in.

We went to a game booth that had you throw a softball into a old milk jug. Azure won a Hello Kitty doll ( Which is why we went there) Zarah tried 2 times but it wasn’t to be this time. She will win one next time though!

Around 6:00 PM or just an hour before closing we decided to try the water rides.

One last pose before the end of the day!!! Good bye Holiday World.

We left the park around 7:15 and headed back to Jasper. While we were driving through Ferdinand Indiana I saw the dome of a big building so I detoured to find out what it was.

It was the The Sisters of St. Benedict Monastery. It was pretty interesting looking. Zarah liked it quite a bit and took pictures and Googled it on her phone. She told me the Monastery was  created in 1867.

By the time we got back to Jasper it was Sunday night at 9:00 PM. We had forgotten about the time change. There were no restaurants open. We ordered Dominos via Zarahs phone and sat in the parking lot waiting for it to cook. The put cheese on Azure’s pizza of course. So the made us another one and gave us a free 2 liter of sprite. That was cool. Azure had her own pizza, I got Azures original pizza and Zarah had a massive cheese pizza.

When we got back to the room it was past 10 PM The girls watched Instagram video’s on their phones. while I watched Russel Crowe in Gladiator on T.V.
Again Zarah told us Lights out was at 11:30 PM

We packed up and went to French Lick Indiana to the Big Splash Adventure and Hotel. We had room 1408

They had a Chuckie Cheese style arcade so the girls won some tickets and prizes playing those.

We went to “The Boatyard” restaurant in the hotel. They messed up my pasta order and put cheese on Azures Pasta order. They were like ” We messed up your order hope that is ok” …. That was kind of strange.

We went to bed around 11 PM . The girls were kind of hot so I opened a window. There was a nice cool breeze coming in. We got up around 8 am the next day and basically packed and left the hotel.

When we hit Bloomington I asked Azure if she would be interested in going to a Vegan Restaurant She said yes. She found one on google maps.

We parked downtown and walked to the restaurant. On the way we found a really cool 3 story Antique mall. We could had stayed in there for hours. But we kept it to about 45 minutes.

When we arrived at the restaurant There was no Inside seating due to Covid. Azure had Mac and Cheese and Zarah and I split some French fries.

We go to Azure and Zarahs house at around 1:30 P.M. on Tuesday. I went straight home and took a nap before work at 9:00 PM

We had Lots of Fun!!!