Well, another road trip for the Martin girls! Yesterday we loaded up and hit the road to New Braunfels, Texas to go to Schlitterbahn's Hill Country Christmas. We met at Nina's house which was about half way for us. It was a two and a half hour road trip total, but we met there so the girls could get out of the car and play for a little while. Lydia took her nap there too, which wasn't a good one! I was really worried about how she would handle this late night considering the park didn't open until 5:00pm and closed at 9:00pm. But, we made it!
We headed to New Braunfels after nap time and arrived on time! Our great friends went with us- Nina, Ronnie, Veronica, Alyssa, Cecilu, Chris, Reagan and Jade. The girls were surrounded by awesome friends! The place was magical with the whole place decorated from top to bottom with beautiful Christmas lights. It was truly amazing to see all the lights!
The evening started with bob sledding- this place is normally a water park in the summer. So, they turned off the water and turned the slides into sledding! All the girls enjoyed the sledding and rode three times each! Poor Lydia was too little to go, but she had fun walking around and getting into trouble! The girls also went down an inflatable slide too and Lydia and I got to ride that together.
We had dinner and then started walking some more around the park. We ran into Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph and Schatze the Dog (their mascot). They also got to ride a carousel and another little ride. We had storytime with Mrs. Claus too. This is when Lydia was really being a mess and kept showing her belly to everyone, trying to take complete stranger's food and even made a little girl run to her mother. Not sure why....she really isn't all that scary! But, she was being a mess and even tried to take Mrs. Claus's storybooks! Good thing I had friends there to help me with her because she was all over the place!
And yes we saw Santa too! Lydia didn't want to do it at first and so I went with Lillian and Lydia. But, all of a sudden, she turned around and walked right back to Santa all by herself. She reached her hands up and he picked her up! Long enough for a photo and it was amazing! That came out of no where! I was so proud of her!
I was proud of all the girls hanging in there for a long night of fun! We had hot chocolate, ate cookies, played in "snow" and went to a little playground just for Lydia's size. The memories were fantastic! We didn't leave until 9:00pm and we were back at Nina's at 10:30pm. Both girls went right to bed and this was Lillian's first sleepover. She slept with her best pal Veronica and they were both up at 6:50am!!!! UGH!
Now, we are home and still talking about the night! What fun! What fun! It is great making memories and having such great friends to share them with! Merry Christmas!
Love,
Julie
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