Cleaning is fun? He’s not joshing!

wagon cleaning

Joshua is three years old. He visited from Mount Vernon, Indiana, the other day. After a day full of fun, he saw one last activity he just couldn’t resist. Cleaning…

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A cake like none other

When I was a kid and my mom asked, "What kind of birthday cake do you want?" it meant chocolate or vanilla. When Spencer was asked that question recently, just…

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Honey, I shrunk the Santa!

Brian & Pauline J. from Indy emailed recently and tucked in photos of their three sons in from of our Santa statue. With this note: Santa keeps getting smaller each…

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“I’ll be a lady of leisure”

Frieda Foertsch

Today, our staff bid a fond farewell to this sweet face: After many, many years of helping to make Santa Claus Land and then Holiday World & Splashin‘ Safari an…

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A post from another park, up north

This really is a fairly small industry. And pretty friendly, too. We occasionally hear from Chris up in the Chicago area. Sometimes with a question, sometimes just to say hi….

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Our 1,000th post

Okay, so where's the cake? One-thousand posts is quite an accomplishment. A huge accomplishment, actually. Nearly as huge as … well, Andy: Andy is our intrepid Marketing Coordinator. He won…

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Now … and then

Well, actually, then and way back then. These photos have been in my "HoliBlog photos" folder since last summer. Oops. What a sweet family photo, taken in August. Siblings who…

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“Who dat?”

Kevin emailed us with this darling story earlier this week: Earlier this evening my 18-month-old grandson and I were looking at the computer. I opened the Holiblog page, and Owen…

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Warm wishes from a little girl

Anita and I have become email buddies over the years. She'll email to ask about 4th of July fireworks, or for advice about which days will be the best for…

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Old news, fond memories

QVC David V. and William

Came across some “archival” photos that I thought would be fun to share. They’re not exactly ancient, but they were taken nine years ago. During the last century. The day…

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