Great Reading, Great Waves!

As many kids across the country do, our older kiddos participated in and completed their local library's Summer Reading Program.  As the reward, our library system partners with a ton of local companies, universities, parks and recs programs, etc. to build quite an impressive coupon book.  Of course, to a 6- and 3-year-old, coupon books are not really that cool.  So, we've been trying to redeem as many of the coupons as we can to make the program seem super-cool!  Today, we redeemed our biggest prize so far:  free admission to a local water park.  Needless to say, the kids loved it.  Katie, older and braver, loved the kid slides, mushroom-shaped fountains, and wave pool.  Michael loved the sprayground and playground areas.  (Daddy and Neve stayed home from this adventure.)  When I asked them if the Summer Reading Program was "worth it" now, Katie responded, "I LOVE the Summer Reading Program.  All except the reading part."  Oh....um....awesome.  Well, it was a good time, anyway!