Winter visit to Cape Cod

In January one weekend, Josh had two days in a ROW of being --- da da da dum -- NOT on call! Hurray! That morning, we made the spontaneous decision to go see the famous Cape Cod area. We found a hotel with an indoor waterpark and reserved one night's stay.We had a really good time, and the kids talk about it often enough for us to realize that they had had an even better time. Avishai, in particular, will often ask - at crazy random inappropriate moments - "Please can we go to Cape Cod today? Please?". The waterpark had a wave pool and sprinklers and waterslides. Ariel and Adin did the slides and loved it. We finally convinced Avishai to try it once (he was exactly tall enough)and I waited at the end of the slide to grab him as he was propelled out into the pool. I was lifting him out of the water, and as his head broke through the surface, he was already calmly forming his sentence "I am NOT big enough for this slide." Cutie-pie. He refused to go again, but still had a great time in the rest of the pool activities.In the evening, there was an outdoor bonfire, for which we brought our own marshmallows from the kosher bakery (even in the multitude of kosher food items to be found here, kosher marshmallows are pretty impossible to find in a regular store).There was an arcade, for which each kid was given 2 dollars to enjoy. Shockingly, the "crane game" for the blow up balls was not a complete scam and we managed to get each boy a ball from it! And then we realized that each boy had actually gotten their favourite colour as well! As we left the arcade, there was mention of Hila having a bit of a fit if everyone had a ball besides her...we decided to invest one more time in the "crane game" and successfully presented her with her own purple ball. These balls cost 50 cents or a dollar in any store, but the boys were SO excited to have won them. They still play with them and bring them to shul (and pummel each other).It was a great little vacation! Highly recommended!