Ok, so I’m a day late on our Monday video post, and I actually have a very good excuse as to why I didn’t post yesterday. It was my birthday, and I didn’t feel like it. So there.
When most people travel to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, they go to see the beautiful countryside with Amish farms and windmills, but not us. We drove right through all of that and set up camp at Edie’s most favorite place on earth-Dutch Wonderland Amusement Park. There were no horse and buggies or children in bonnets and caps, but there was a princess and a dragon and about a zillion rides all geared towards children age six and under.
To read more about our day (yes, we only spent one day at Dutch Wonderland…one very full day), you can read the post here.
Let me just set the stage for you—princesses and dragons, spinning turtle rides and bumper cars, sweltering heat and hundreds of children under 48 inches tall. This pretty much sums up our day at Dutch Wonderland, and of course, one happy little girl who thought she had died and gone to heaven.
If you ever find yourself in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area and you have children under six years old, you have to check this place out. It’s an amusement park geared towards younger children.
When we were researching our trip, Ken and I came across Dutch Wonderland via Trip Advisor. There was a lot of discussion about whether or not we really wanted to add this to the agenda, I mean, A LOT of discussion, and the thing that we kept coming back to was that she was gonna’ love it.
When you travel with children you have to spend some days doing things entirely for them. Stops that you probably wouldn’t make if you’d left them at home, but have to include to hold their attention. I mean, if we’d only stopped at old Presidents’ boyhood homes and national landmarks for two weeks, Edie would have been a goner days ago and declared this vacation a bust. So we throw in some amusement parks and hay rides along the way so that she remains engaged. Dutch Wonderland was for her, and just another one of those moments where Ken and I are reminded how children have once again changed every aspect of our lives.
