Wild in the Woods

Good morning/afternoon! How was your weekend? Did you have a wonderful Memorial Day? Ours was lovely, thanks! It was the weekend the kids have been waiting not-so patiently for. We took them to that forest-park thing I told you about. It's called Bewilderwood. It's this crazy fun adventury-type treehousey park based on a kids book series.

The kids were super excited! Like, seriously, you have no idea. We told them we were leaving the house around 8:30 because it takes an hour and half to get there. They were up at 5:30. I practically have to drag them out of bed at that time for school but they popped out of bed with no problems yesterday. Lol! 

Of course, our GPS was so kind as to remind us, yet again, that it is a giant pain. Instead of taking us around Norwich, we got to go straight through downtown. (So nice of the GPS.) The upside is that Norwich is really pretty & it was kind of fun getting to see a place that we wouldn't visit otherwise.

But we did eventually get to the park & the kids were in heaven! There's a ton of hidden things in the trees for them to find - stuff that I'm pretty sure has to do with the book series (that we haven't read of course). They loved it anyway.

 

The park is almost entirely made of treehouses that they could climb on and explore and go crazy on. Going crazy = kiddie love!

There were rock walls and rope walls and rope spider webs...all kinds of stuff for them to climb on. Balance beam type things for them to walk on. Ziplines and mazes.

 

The downside, for me anyway, was that my dear sweet little children expect me to do all of this with them. And while this shouldn't have been an issue, it was. Why, you ask? Well. Did you know I have a serious fear of heights? Like really. And like I said, everything was up in the air.

See that rope bridge? Yeah. That looks innocent enough. It was not. I actually didn't go on that one. The one I did go on was about 30 feet off the ground, barely the width of my foot and liked to move diagonally every time I took a step. (I thought I was going to pass out.) 

And after that, I bowed (gracefully) out of the rope bridges. Partially out of fear of them. And partially after realizing they all led to ginormous slides. Slides that you couldn't have paid me to get on.

Brian and the kids loved them though. Lol! The slides were just too much *adventure* for me. I very gladly volunteered to stay on the ground to take pictures. :)

My favorite part of the day was probably towards the end. Brian took the girls to do the zipline, while Hayden and I hung out on a log bench to wait. And to entertain him while we were waiting, we took crazy selfies. Lol! He was hysterical & was just cracking me up!

Finally, though, our adventure time came to an end. We had to climb back into the car and head back home. We fully expected the kids to be worn out and fall asleep. That did not happen. They talked and giggled the entire way home. However, as soon as we got home, I did go right upstairs, climb into bed and slept for 2 hours. (I seriously need to find a way to bottle their energy for myself.) I woke up to 2 sweet girls poking me in the face, telling me dinner was ready and that I need to hurry up so we could eat and watch a movie. Lol. 

All in all, it was a great day. Tiring, but great. I hope yours was just as wonderful!

Until next time! Much love! <3