Blessed by Two: Some Serious Water Fun!

We had some serious water fun in the Bahamas at Atlantis. As I mentioned, they have over 40 different pools and who knows how many water slides. Of course most days we parked it right next to this awesome kid play area. Paxton spent hours playing with all the different water sprayers and shooters. It was wonderful just to let that little boy burn up all the energy being as carefree as he wanted! Lorelei loved the pools too, but she was more content just to sit in the zero depth entry part and play with her buckets and shovels.

In addition to this kid water pool, there was a massive lazy/rapid river. If you did the whole thing it would take about 30 minutes to ride through. There really isn't much to the lazy section of it but more really big waves and rapids that you go through on an inner tube. We took both kids and I can just say that one LOVED it and one HATED it! I bet you can guess who! However, at some point during the week both kids were knocked out of their daddy's inner tube by the gigantic waves and into the rapids. Luckily they have a fast daddy who never let go of them. Lorelei was of course frightened out of her mind from that point on and Paxton was just more perturbed that it happened. Thank goodness for life vests! I also enjoyed riding with Paxton but was quite nervous after I saw Lorelei flip out.

Paxton loved what water slides he could ride but he tells everyone that he wants to go back and ride the "Abyss" but you have to be 48 inches to ride that. Josh and I took turns riding some of the other fabulous water slides . . . reminiscing to our previous trip of more freedom! We did go to the beach one day but it was so hot and sandy and all of our poor little feet got burned on the way back in. Of course the kids loved getting sandy from their heads to their toes but the parents would rather sit out by the pool!
So, one more post after this and I should have this vacation wrapped up!

Waiting in the lobby while daddy does his daily arguing with the front desk on crazy charges to our room. Let me just tell you, that this place LOVED to charge you for every breath you took whether you took one or not!

We loved walking the grounds in the evenings. Every night we found a new path and different things to explore!

Another professional picture by Pax!

Paxton loved this water slide. We let him walk up to it by himself and he just did it over and over!

We saw another couple taking their pictures in this scenic spot and we thought it would make for a great pic, turned out pretty good!

Lorelei and her shovel. She also kept calling this area of the pool her "garden".

This is one of the spots Paxton spent lots of time in. There are several water sprayers right inside of the landing and he loved shooting them everywhere!

The big bucket at the top would fill up every couple of minutes and dump out huge amounts of water on the people below. Lorelei screamed every time it happened for the first few days even though she was never near it! My silly girl!