Knotts Berry Farm

I have been wanting to do this post for quite awhile now but have not found the time. We took a trip last month to Knotts Berry Farm with the boys and John's parents. We decided not to tell the boys until we were on our way. It was so much fun to drive past Little John's school and for him to ask why we were not going there. They were so excited when we finally told them.
When we got there the hotel was totally set up for kids. They were able to swim and play in this water feature they had and play some video games in the arcade.


john would pull this string and water would come spraying out of this fountain thing.



Max made a friend with this little girl from England. I think he liked the way her accent sounded.



the water was pretty cold as it was a chilly day. But you know kids, they really don't care how cold it is, they will still swim if given the chance.

Max was so tired he was falling asleep on Karen's lap.

We went down on Thursday morning because we wanted to go to this Pirate's dinner adventure show. I must say that it was quite over priced considering the food was totally gross. We were looking forward to the shrimp and scallops and chocolate cake that the website said would be served. Instead we got some dried out pork and apple pie. The show was fun though and little John and Johnny even got to be in it!!

Here is the pirate ship stage. It was really cool!

John dressed up helping to shoot the bad guys

His official certificate stating that he successfully helped to save the princess

Johnny on his way to help raise the flag!


After the show we went back to the hotel to get ready for bed. We thought the kids would go right down because we had such a long day with no naps. Didn't happen. The room had two queen beds, a roll away bed and a crib. Gigi and Papa slept in one bed, john and I in another along with little john, sam on the roll away bed because he had a terrible cough and shook the bed violently all night long, and Max in the crib. We all got settled into bed and quickly realized that john was waaaayyyyy to big to share a bed with us. He kicked and dug his toes into me all night. Max wouldn't go to sleep with out his usual one hour chat with sam. Then he pooped so I had to get up and change him. After playing musical beds with john and sam we finally settled down. Then Johnny started snoring loudly which made my sweet little husband complain through out the night causing more of a ruckus. And on top of all of that, there was a conference held at the hotel with hundreds of loud teenagers swimming until who knows how late! Needless to say we were all a bit grumpy the next morning.

That didn't stop us from getting excited about Knotts. It got off to a slow start when we first got there. It is hard to plan out your rides when you have kids with such a big age difference who like different things. We first found Snoopy and took a picture with him.

as you can see Max wouldn't look at the camera

Then we split up so john could go on some big boy rides with daddy and johnny and gigi and I took the little kids to the airplanes which were a big hit!


Max looking oh so excited.


Max deciding that it is kind of fun!

When we met up again they decided to do this skateboard ride which looked babyish and mikey wasn't took thrilled about. They waited for what seemed like an hour when they finally got their turn it lasted for about 30 seconds. Total waste of time!!

Max was totally freaking out at first but ended up really liking it. As you can see Sam totally dug it and wanted to do it again.

Waiting in line for the log ride. Note to self; never put your 2 year old in the front of the log. It will scare them when plummeting down the big drop!






we made john go on a baby ride with sam because sam was scared. john was not happy about it.


john trying not to smile despite the fun he was having.


outside the jaguar ride with papa. his school mascot is the jaguar.









We promised the kids they could buy a new sword while we were there because they are all about swords these days. We searched high and low for one. We looked at the pirate show...no luck. We looked in many gift shops in Knotts....no luck. Sam was starting to get very disappointed and I was starting to get annoyed. We finally found it and the best part was that they were only five dollars!!! Note to self: never tell your kids you will buy them one specific item.





The boys were so happy with their treasures until we had to take it away at dinner time. As you can see Max was getting riled up!


I must say I was quite impressed with little John. He went on so many big rides that I was not even brave enough to go on. We all had a blast and finished up our trip with some good old fried chicken at some famous resturant located outside the park. Max finished up our trip with a good old poop in his pants inside the resturant.