Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?

When we planned this vacation, one of the reasons we were really set on making the trip this summer as opposed to putting it off, was that we knew we had some theme parks in mind that Alyssa would soon "grow out of" or in the very least not be very excited to visit them. We knew from our last visit that Sesame Place is such a cute park, and we wanted her to still be able to enjoy it.

A look at our little cuties here back in 2005...
 




















The neat thing is that when we visited 5 years ago, we were there for Sesame Place's 25th Birthday celebration. Now five years later, we were here for their 30th Birthday party as well.


And our sweet girls in 2010...
 Sesame Street has never been a favorite cartoon in our house. While the girls each went through a phase during their toddler years where they loved Elmo, the cartoon itself hasn't grabbed their attention the way some Disney and Nick Jr. cartoons have. Having said this they LOVED the park and seeing all the characters!! I can't say enough how cute all the rides are, they have a flying fish Elmo ride, the cutest carousel, hot air balloons that the girls spun so crazy I thought I was going to be sick, and tea cups from all around the world decorated with all the characters. We sat in the Germany one! And all of us enjoyed the Elmo Live show :-)


 The Dine With Me Sesame was such a cute breakfast. Rebekah was so excited to meet all the characters. She loved when Zoe sat at our table, and she kept grabbing at Big Bird's feathers. She loved all their noses too.


For the slide show, I really wanted to use the Sesame Street theme song, but I didn't really want to pay to download it either. {Just to explain the childlike, but rather random music with animal sounds chirping out from the background}




The kind of girl Emma is:
 VERY DETERMINED! Sesame Place has the best climbing structure we have ever visited. It's huge! I knew I would lose Alyssa the minute she stepped inside, she took off and was gone for a little while. Emma couldn't even walk yet, but I could tell she was not going to leave the park until she made her way through the expansive nets. At one point we came across a lost little boy who got separated from his family and his foot was stuck in the nets, so now he was losing his shoe as well. He was crying so I helped him untangle his foot, and Emma carried his shoes until we found his mom. So she was down one foot, and now a hand that she was really relying on to pull herself through. Despite the sad kid, it was so much fun.


 There's also Cookie Monster Mountain. The slide down is the best part, every time Kamele slid, she rolled and tumbled completely out of control.


 Rebekah also rode her first real roller coaster here {we are in the back 3 cars}, it was Emma's first roller coaster when we were here five years ago too. So I guess Sesame Place is a monumental park for our girls.


 I don't think Rebekah loved it, she's not as much of a scary ride girl as her sisters are. She just buried herself into my side as much as possible and hung on for dear life.