My DD just woke up- had to get her breakfast going.
Day 5 of Hershey trip report- Wed June 13- Went back to Hershey Park and did the Boardwalk water area most of the day.
Got to HP a little after 10 am. Wanted to concentrate on the Boardwalk area this day, since we had the 2-day flex pass.Took awhile to walk from front of HP to Boardwalk. I don't think there is a shortcut to get to that area? At least not that I know of.
Got to Boardwalk area about 10:30 am and staked out our lawnchairs. Most of them already were taken. Went to the locker area/dressing area of the Boardwalk. Was kinda taken aback that the small lockers were $13 there and larger lockers were $15!

My DH was livid of finding out about the locker fee. But at least you get the $5 deposit back when you return the key to the locker attendant. He spoke to the attendant and said the price of hte lockers were ridiculous. She didn't say anything. What can you do?

In my opinion, the locker rental there at the Boardwalk is high, as I paid only $2 for locker rental at the front of HP on Monday. When I had called HP a week before we left on vacay, they told me lockers were between 75 cents and $2. DH had to lock up his Blackberry,cell phone, the kid's lunchtime meds, camera, wallet. I'm guessing b/c the Boardwalk area is new, they are trying to make the $$$, since Boardwalk is included in the HP ticket prices
Anyways, when we got settled, we went to the huge play area of Boardwalk, where the big bucket comes down and drenches you, water slides, water guns,water sprays etc. We stayed in that area of Boardwalk for about 2 hrs before we had lunch. When we first got to that area, DS was gone for about 15 min. I was starting to freak out, b/c I didn't see him come down any slides, etc. I was starting to panic

. I had DH go look for him, b/c this place is huge! DH thought I was being too overprotective and saying he's having fun. I didn't know if there was an exit on the other side of this play area, b/c it is so huge! Did find out there is only one exit, close to where we came in. Anyways, DH did find DS, thank God! phew! He said he was waiting to go down this big purple slide. DS was exploring all over this water apparatus. DD stayed in pretty much one small area. Had lunch in hte Boardwalk area. I think the counter service was called "Decades" we ate at. Food in the BW area seemed more expensive than the other parts of the park. After lunch, the kids tried out the small wave pool area. It was a cute area. It was a little smaller area than what I imagined in the drawing of it on the HP website. At least the water isn't too high up at the front of hte wave pool, about 3 feet high. After about 20 min at the wave pool, DD wanted to check out the sandcastle part of the BW. She only stayed 5 min there, since it's for smaller kids. Then we went back to the play apparatus part, where we were in the AM. Alot more crowded, which I figured it would be. Left the BW area about 3pm, as they were making an announcement for about 20 min in the BW area that inclement weather was going to come. Wasn't clouding up yet, but I was ready move out of BW area, been there too long for the day.
Got dressed and we sat and had some italian ice and rested a little bit. Starting to cloud up now. Told the kids you only have about 1 or 2 rides to ride before we leave HP. Did hte swings again and the carousel. As soon as they finished riding the carousel, it started raining, We got in one of hte souvenier shops, past the gated exit. I had thrown some dollar store rain ponchos on the kids. Matthew hates getting rained on, so went into hte souvenier shop. Started pouring right after we got into hte souvenier shop. Waited out the storm with everyone else, it seemed. Chrissy grabbed a candy bar, as she said she she needed it

I had to chuckle that I quickly saw a family with Disney ponchos on
After it stopped raining, we left the park to go back to hotel. My feet were killing me and I just wasn't feeling well. So DH picked up Wendy's for dinner and we ate in our hotel room. End of Day 5
