Sesame Place

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We had a great weekend at Sesame Place!  Got there around 1 pm on Saturday afternoon, and LO started freaking out as soon as he saw all the characters on the signs in the parking lot.  We had to drag him into the park and he loved it.  Click here for all of DH's photos.

Highlights:
*We stayed at the Courtyard Marriott down the street.  I was hoping it was close enough to walk, and it might have been, if there had been sidewalks!  But it was very close, we drove and paid for parking which wasn't terrible (on Sunday we left around 1:30 for naptime and came back later for a few more hours), and the hotel was so fresh and clean and our package included breakfast so that was nice.
*Character meals!  Those are totally worth the money.  We did Big Bird's Backyard BBQ for dinner and Breakfast with Elmo.  Got lots of time to take pictures with all the favorite characters and the food was not bad (I particularly liked the BBQ).  If you're there for breakfast, you're there right when the park opens at 10, which gives you a headstart on rides- we walked onto a few rides right in that first half-hour or so.
*Count's Splash Castle!  It just opened and LO was fascinated by the dumping bucket of water.  The water was freezing but thankfully DH was on duty so they were splashing around there together.
*The parade.  Try to get there at least 20-30 minutes early so you can have a "front-row" spot; somewhere a little past the front gate would probably be good so you can see it right as it starts; we were near the end both times we went and had to wait a bit.
*The shows were cute; DH thought they were kind of stupid but they weren't for him, duh.  I particularly liked "Elmo The Musical", which is inside in lovely AC

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Another thing he loved- Snuffy's Slide!  I wasn't sure he'd like going down the big tube himself (no grownups allowed down the slide, so either have somebody down at the bottom to grab or say your prayers that your kid will clear out on his her/own), but he LOVED IT.  Would have done it a hundred times if we had the stamina to keep taking him up the stairs.

mama0226

Looks like it was a great weekend. That place looks really neat, we might need to visit there someday!

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fishybride82 said:

Love! Thanks for posting. We already booked the Elmo breakfast so now I'm so excited. We will definitely be doing the water stuff! I will check out the photos when I get back on a computer. Tommy is going to be so excited.

Awesome!  It's nice knowing you have the character breakfasts booked because then you don't have to stand in line in the park during the day for character pictures (there were only a few characters I didn't see at either meal- Oscar, who we didn't get a picture with, and Praire Dawn, who we managed to catch right when we came in the front gate).

zyas

I'm so envious! I wish we lived closer so we could go, I think Ava would love it. I'm so happy for you guys though that you got to go and that you all had such a fun time