Schitterbahn & Moving Steven

Jack, Eric, Steven, and I went to Schlitterbahn today!  It was only about 85 degrees when we got there, but by 3pm it was up to 105, yikes!  We spent most of our day in the tidal wave river, which was pretty great!  We also did the teal and black waterslides, the water coaster, the true lazy river, and the connection between the lazy river and the tidal wave river.  The signs said that there were supposed to be 6 new rides in 2011, but as we near the end of July, none of them are near completion - lame!  It sucks that the ticket prices are the same for 1/2 the park as what they will be when the rest of it opens, but we still had a great time.

Steven decided not to reapply sunscreen with the rest of us, and paid dearly for his error!  When we finished at the park, we grabbed lunch at Cheeseburgers in Paradise.  I left the boys so I could take Jack home and greet Papa on his return from Michigan!  Eric and Steven went and played some games with Grant - then I joined them at his apartment later in the evening.  We managed to finish moving him out of his apartment, except for some small things, in only two trips!  Then we were able to hang around for a bit, and I snuck a mega snap under one of the kitchen chairs...it took 30 minutes for anyone to sit in that chair, but Steven just about peed his pants when he was the unlucky winner!

Yay!  Jack and I are ready to go swimming!

Jack was super tired and upset that we were leaving, this isn't a smile, but a grimace as he was crying.  :( 

This speaks for itself! 

Jack fell asleep as soon as he hit the seat, and then woke up easily to devour his chicken strips and fries. 

Dark, but Steven outside of his empty apartment!

Day 30: Home Sweet Home!

We found out today that we get to stay in our apartment! The manager is also giving us a $300 incentive to stay on top of keeping rent at the same price, so it will only cost us $330 for August rent, WOO! We'll have to clear out the storage unit before August 1st in order to get our deposit back and not pay August rent, but that won't be hard.

In other news, the family of the boy I nanny for was all home sick and they wanted me to keep him out of the house because he wasn't sick. We spent all day out at the Schlitterbahn Vacation Village, a partially complete waterpark out at the Legends shopping center. I used this as an opportunity to test out the waterproof feature of my new camera while it is still under warranty. We had a blast on the waterslides and on the raging river and got out of it without sunburns!

Jack and I in the Raging River, people kept giving me funny looks for having my camera in the water.

Yea, yea, gross looking feet - but the camera was fully submerged, cool!

We also had lunch at the T-Rex restaurant - Jack had dino chicken nuggets and I had a T-Rexadilla, yum!

Finally, Eric and I worked on our budget today and figured that we will be able to pay for our fall semester classes AND finish paying off my credit card with one monster payment. We've paid off $1250 in the past 6 months, and with the money from my summer job we'll have enough to pay off the remaining $3000. We know it seems crazy to "blow" that much money on getting rid of debt when we could continue making payments on it. But we're sick of being normal! This will finally start our "debt snowball" and we'll put my credit card's minimum payment onto Eric's credit card payment, and pay it off twice as fast. Then we'll tack those payments onto my car and then Eric's car. We're in the range of having no credit card debt by our one year anniversary, and owning both of our cars outright in 2012 - how's that for crazy?

 This is our debt thermometer for my credit card.  Starting in February we marked the total balance plus a chunk of interest and each month we color in the amount we paid to show our progress.  We're only a third of the way done, but it will be full in a month!

P.S. Addy looooooves catnip!