After a morning spent exploring the Amish way of life, we decided to spend the remainder of our day at Dutch Wonderland. Dutch Wonderland is an amusement park for kids that is located in Lancaster. This park is by no means on the same scale as Disney. However, it is ranked the #4 park for children by Amusement Today Magazine (This magazine does the Golden Ticket Awards, which are like the "Oscars" of the Amusement Park world). Dutch Wonderland was just delightful, and was a great place to spend the afternoon. You enter the park through a castle- complete with a moat. Inside the park you will find a few shows, a decent-sized waterplay area, and many rides that are geared for smaller children. There were only one or two rides in the whole park that Olivia and Owen couldn't ride. We spent most of our time riding all of these rides. The park wasn't crowded, so the kids were able to go on the rides multiple times in a row (sometimes they didn't even have to get off the ride- they just went again).
There are three "mascots" for Dutch Wonderland- a princess, a prince, and a dragon named Duke. We came upon a "Storytime with Princess Brooke" show and stopped to listen. It was pretty cute. Princess Brooke and Prince Patrick led the kids in a little dance. Then, the princess read a short story to the kids. After that, each kid was called up one at a time, asked their name, and was made a "knight" or a "lady". Here's "Lady Olivia" receiving her title (unfortunately Sir Owen didn't cooperate for a picture)
It got pretty hot while we were at the park, so Barb and I took the kids to the waterplay area to cool off. It was a pretty nice area with lots of different slides and buckets. The kids had a great time running around in it. To be honest, I had a hard time keeping up with them here. After playing for about 30-45 minutes, we returned to the park to ride some more rides. We ended up staying at the park until it closed, and then we began the drive back to Dover. The whole day was great, and we enjoyed it tremendously.
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