About three weeks ago, our family's Physician Assistant ordered us to take a family vacation. We chose the weekend of fall break, because then there would be no soccer games or church activities to interfere.
For anyone not from the Tri-State area, the term French Lick may sound a bit strange. However, rest assured it is not some strange European spa treatment, it is and has been for many decades a vacation destination for the rich, famous, and/or redneck-ed. Don't ask me how they came up with the name for the place, no body we asked seemed to know.
Instead of staying in one of the 5 star resorts, we decided to holiday at the much more family friendly Big Splash Adventure. Basically, it is the largest something or other indoor water park in the world, country, county or something like that. Anyway, it's a really big indoor water park. 4 big slides, lazy river, kidy pool and water-playground and that kind of thing.
This was by far Jaxen's favorite slide, we affectionately called it "the toilet bowl". I'm sure it has a proper name. Basically, it starts out as a enclosed tube slide, until you get spit out into the bowl, then you go around and around until you get flushed out the bottom. And that last part is a real drop. It seems odd, yet a lot of fun. They have a slide like this at Holiday World, but this one is a little smaller and much faster.
All-in-all, it was a great place to stay, and we'll probably go back again. It was cheep and close, perfect for a weekend get away.
Since it is fall and the leaves are changing, we decided to take some family pictures. There's been a drought and the leaves aren't nearly as vibrant as they could otherwise be, so the picture style became a bit muted. However, they turned out pretty good, nun-the-less.
