Vacation Post #3....Ohio to Illinois

On June 19th we left Ohio and headed west. Our departure was a little later than desired (9:45am) but let's just say that I had not got this packing and unpacking and repacking thing down yet, plus our boys were using vacation time to sleep in after their late nights out. (Too bad they didn't keep up with that sleeping in thing once we got home!) Once on the road the kids took advantage of it and took great cat naps. Here's a picture of Madison and Jason snoozing...was it ever so quiet during that 15 minutes!
We drove through the state of Indiana (it's a skinny state so that didn't take long) and into Illinois. Once in Illinois we used our handy GPS to find a nice local park pretty close to the interstate and it didn't take us 40 minutes to find it. :) Once again the kids enjoyed the park while I prepared lunch.

Matt checking out the equipment.

Another nice playground.

Lunch and a show!

Despite our late departure from Ohio we still made it to our hotel in Peoria, Illinois by 3pm (thank goodness for time changes). We stopped by a Walmart for some flotation toys for the kids and were able to spend some time at the indoor pool before dinner. Since there wasn't a baby pool but only a few steps into the 3 foot water, it took some time to talk the boys into getting in and having fun. Before long they were jumping in to us so quickly we could barely keep up with them.

Jason in motion. Madison is behind him thinking that she needs to jump into an adult with that ring around her but she quickly learned that we weren't needed. Even without the ring she was able to jump in and touch the bottom and safely get to the steps.

Here's a short video that I was able to capture just how thrilled Jason was to jump in over and over again and I captured a bit of Carson's attitude....I guess he didn't want to be videotaped!