A week ago, our Facebook Fan page had a rather paltry number of fan photos. Paltry as in 38. (And one of the 38 was a photo of our brochure…
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Cleaning is fun? He’s not joshing!

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…
Read More »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…
Read More »“Everyone TOTALLY enjoyed the park!”
Yesterday we were at Holiday World for our BMS band competition. Everyone in our group (around 70 band 65 choir) TOTALLY enjoyed the park. I was so amazed at how…
Read More »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…
Read More »“I’ll be a lady of leisure”

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…
Read More »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….
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »“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…
Read More »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…
Read More »Old news, fond memories

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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