The first half of July is a busy time for birthdays in my family – half of us have our birthdays all within a 9-day span. To celebrate this year, we decided to take the kids to a fun place near our home – Enchanted Forest. It’s a theme park done in fairy tales. Upon paying the entrance fee, you walk a path that takes you on a meandering journey through a wide variety of houses (life size sculptures, many of which you can actually go inside) from pretty much every fairy tale and nursery rhyme you can think of – and many you probably can’t.
For something so visual, I think a photo essay with captions is the best way to share our experience.
![KIMG0474](http://www.ladybugdaydreams.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/KIMG0474.jpg)
Humpty Dumpty
![Little Miss Muffet](http://www.ladybugdaydreams.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/KIMG0475.jpg)
Little Miss Muffet
![KIMG0476](http://www.ladybugdaydreams.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/KIMG0476.jpg)
Hansel and Gretel
![KIMG0479](http://www.ladybugdaydreams.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/KIMG0479.jpg)
Mary Had a Little Lamb
![KIMG0482](http://www.ladybugdaydreams.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/KIMG0482.jpg)
Jack and Jill
![I don't remember which witch this is, but Small Fry was terrified ;)](http://www.ladybugdaydreams.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/KIMG0486.jpg)
I don’t remember which witch this is, but Small Fry was terrified 😉
![The old woman who lived in a shoe](http://www.ladybugdaydreams.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/KIMG0488.jpg)
The old woman who lived in a shoe
![The shoe is a giant slide](http://www.ladybugdaydreams.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/KIMG0490.jpg)
The shoe is a giant slide
There are a few others that it seems we didn’t get pictures of: Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Alice in Wonderland, and The Crooked Man (perhaps others, too, but those are the ones I remember).
Upon leaving Fairy Tale Lane, you move on to where the rides are. There’s an area with several kiddie rides, which Small Fry enjoyed very much, and then a little farther away are rides for big people: a roller coaster, log flume, and haunted house. We did the roller coaster (even Small Fry was tall enough to go on that with a grown up) and the log flume. Because we have a baby, we did the rides in shifts – Will took one of the big kids while I waited with the others, then we switched. We did both rides that way.
![Small Fry and Munchkin on the kiddie Ferris wheel.](http://www.ladybugdaydreams.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/KIMG0492.jpg)
Small Fry and Munchkin on the kiddie Ferris wheel.
![Small Fry on the kiddie train](http://www.ladybugdaydreams.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/KIMG0494.jpg)
Small Fry on the kiddie train
![Small Fry on the bumper boats](http://www.ladybugdaydreams.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/KIMG0496.jpg)
Small Fry on the bumper boats
After the ride area, there’s a western town that’s mostly fun things to look at. Included is a air shot range and a small theater with statues performing Sing a Song of Sixpence (a pocket full of rye; four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie…). The final area before you leave is a Bavarian village, where you can see things such as Gepetto’s workshop (from Pinocchio).
![KIMG0500](http://www.ladybugdaydreams.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/KIMG0500.jpg)
We had some Olive Garden gift cards that we’d received as birthday gifts, so we did that on the way home, which was a wonderful way to round out the fun day.
![Too tired to make it all the way home without a nap](http://www.ladybugdaydreams.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/KIMG0501.jpg)
Too tired to make it all the way home without a nap
Blessings,
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