Trip to Columbia Falls with Grandmas

The end of July brought a trip to Columbia Falls with the Grandmas. I am not sure who had more fun Jeremy or I, or the girls, or the grandmas. It was nice to have some extra help with the girls and I think the grandmas really enjoyed their time with the girls. The weather was warm, but not hot. On our first full day there we went to the golf course, maze, and bumper boat fun park. Rylee was too little to ride the bumper cars so we rode the boats twice. Both girls laughed and laughed the whole time even though we wouldn't allow them to squirt us directly since it wasn't warm enough to get soaked that day.

Rylee figured out quick how to use the squirter button.

This was Abbie's second time on the bumper boats solo (first time was last year as a 4-year-old)so she was even able to teach the grandmas how they worked.

We all played some mini-golf. Rylee thought it was fun for about one hole and Abbie lasted about 4 or 5 then the two of them played on their own while the rest of us continued our serious golf game. I always start out really well, like even a hole-in-one, and so I place a bet with Jeremy and then my game falls apart and I lose my own bet miserably.

We partook in the maze this year. After finding the first two towers Abbie lost interest (Rylee didn't really have any to begin with) so we skipped the 3rd tower and just focused on the final tower and finding the end.


We did some shopping around Whitefish and Kalispell but the highlight of the trip was the waterslides. Abbie still just wants to do the small kiddy slides and then sit in the hot tub. Rylee wanted to do the great big slides. After coming down the big slides with Jeremy a few times Jeremy put her down on the ground after getting her out of the water and she would take off walking up the hill again looking back to say, "Come on...again!"

Jeremy and Abbie

Grandma Nita and Abbie

Grandma Nate and Abbie

I finally convinced Abbie to ride the bigger slides. Reminding her that she did it last year...and last year she wasn't nearly as good a swimmer. This bribe worked. She then took on the bigger slides. This made me excited since the kiddy slides are much too narrow...and my butt being much wider, making the trip down VERY slow as I tried to push us along and try not to get stuck!!

After a few times down the big slides Abbie gained all sorts of confidence and even decided she didn't really need a life jacket when she rode down with Grandma Nate.

Here comes Rylee with no persuading or coercing to go down the bigger slides. The faster the slide and the bigger the splash the more she enjoyed it.

Because the Grandmas were with us, it allowed Jeremy and I the opportunity to get to ride some of the slides that we wouldn't otherwise. This innertube ride was a ton of fun and Jeremy started a sort of contest about who could get the highest on the backsplash part of the ride.