What is Morgan's Wonderland?

In this episode, we share Deonna's family's experience at Morgan’s Wonderland, the world’s first ultra-accessible theme park located in San Antonio, Texas. 

Deonna shares:

• What makes Morgan’s Wonderland so special for families with disabilities,
• Accessibility highlights, from wheelchair-friendly rides to inclusive playgrounds,
• Our favorite attractions and sensory-friendly features,
• and tips for parents planning a visit with a child who uses a wheelchair.

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Rhandyl: Hey y'all. Welcome back to Raising Disabled. This week's episode, we wanted to fill you guys in on mine and Deonna's spring breaks with our kids and what all we did, we both traveled and had a lot of fun and we liked to share some fun things that we did that we think. Is worth the listen and also worth you guys. Potentially going to some of these places that we're going to talk about. morgan's Wonderland is definitely a highlight of this episode. And it's in San Antonio, Texas, so Deanna's gonna fill you guys in on that. But we went to, Shamrock, Texas. It's where my husband and I are from, and all of our spring breaks and with our kids and what all we did, we both traveled and had a lot of fun and we liked to share some fun things that we did , Morgan's Wonderland is definitely a highlight of this episode. And, it's in San Antonio, Texas, so Deanna's gonna fill you guys in on that. 

But we actually, we went to, Shamrock, Texas. It's where my husband and I are from, and all of our family, the majority of our families all still live there. And , every march we have a St. Patrick's Day celebration. It's a weekend full of all sorts of festivities. They have a parade carnival. There's all sorts of dances. There's a ranch rodeo. Tons of vendors. It's just like small town USA turns, big time for a small town. Yeah, a lot of people travel in for it.

And the parade is actually, it was one of the biggest parades. Like I've been to some of the parades here in Lubbock locally, but this grade people travel long distances. But it's a pretty, pretty fun parade. And the kids, they, everyone throws candy and of course my son was all about it this year. Oh. I believe that we were having to like, okay, you can't just run out in front of the vehicles. But it was, 

Deonna: he's I'm going to though. Yeah. 

Rhandyl: Yeah. It was funny. So that was fun. Remi, I remember the first time we took her, I was super worried about her with all the loud, because, you know, it's like motorcycles, fire trucks and fire trucks and like sirens and all the things and I don't even like that stuff. Yeah. So I remember we tried to put headphones on her and she refused to wear them. But she surprised us all and every year we've been going probably for the last five years. Mm-hmm. And she loves it. So she likes to watch the parade. That was one of the big things that kind of kicks off the whole weekend. Yeah. 

And then , we went to the carnival and the first few years I was really nervous to take her to the carnival, like especially just for germs, germ related. I was like, yeah, no way. We're not going to the carnival. And then, she starts school and she's around germs all the time. So , she's built up her immunity. So the last three years I guess we have taken her to the carnival and she absolutely loves it. 

Now, obviously. This small town carnival is not handicap accessible. Right. Um, It's out in a dirt field rocks and so navigating her wheelchair around is challenging for sure. And then obviously none of the rides. are wheelchair accessible, handicap accessible, but she's still light enough that we can carry her on and put her on almost all the rides. Not like the crazy flips and things like that, but she. Like the spinning around once. Yeah. We were worried though, like I remember the first year we knew she loved to spin 'cause we have this little saucer. Yeah. And then she has a spinny toy at school that she can sit on and that she loves the vestibular simulation of spinning.

so I remember a couple years ago, there's this ride there it looks like these big barrels and you sit in it and then they spin. It's not as crazy as the tilt a whirl which she has rode. tilt a whirl I love the tilt a whirl. Yeah. Um, She rode that one the year before. But this year we didn't do that one, but we put her on the. Carousel oh yeah. Yeah. And she doesn't wanna get off of that ride. We just keep having to , give them tickets. And she does not wanna get off. And so we all have to switch out. We're 

Deonna: be more of a pain for us to get off as you just let us stay on seriously, 

Rhandyl: basically. And , none of us like, so the nurse that was with us, she gets severe motion sickness, so she couldn't ride any of the rides. And I get motion sickness, but I was like. I have my one year of motion sickness for her to have fun. Yeah. And so my husband and I were switching out, who was gonna ride with her on all the rides. She didn't wanna get off the carousel, so we'd have to go in and switch off and let her choose another animal to ride. And of course, my son loved it too. He just thought he needed to keep riding it. Yeah. That was fun. And she rode the Ferris wheel for the first time this year, and I didn't know how she would do with heights. Yeah. You don't know to try. And so she rode with Cole on that and. She loved it all smiles the whole time. 

And then there's that big slide, that has I feel like a thousand steps that you have to go up. And you slide down. Yeah. I was like, okay, , we're only gonna do this one time because it is a hike and I'm carrying her up this little narrow staircase and so 

Deonna: well, and she has some trunk control, but it's not no, carrying a regular kid, 

Rhandyl: she's dead weight when you're. Carry because she doesn't wrap her legs around me or, 

Deonna: yeah. She doesn't help you. 

Rhandyl: No. So I was like, oh my gosh, get up there. And the slides are super narrow. Obviously they're built for children. Yeah. And I almost had to , call for back because I'm up there like trying to not let her, getting her on that little, sheet that you put down to slide on. Yeah. A potato sack kind of thing. Yeah, and I was trying to get her on that, but hold onto her so she doesn't slide down by herself. And I'm trying to wrap my long legs up there to try. It was a hot mess. It took me like, get your booty in the slide, let's go. And she's she is just come on, like hurry, she does this, hurry up.

She does this thing where she'll. Um, like Do that, like you're like, you're a horse for a horse. Yeah. Yeah. She does that. When she's being impatient and I'm like, girl, that's hilarious actually. Yeah. She's like, giddy up mom. Come on, giddy up. Let's go. . But yeah, we did the slide once and. That was enough for mom 

so she had a blast. But it was, your typical carnival, everything's not very handicap accessible, but she still had fun. It's good that she's able to, she has enough trunk control and head control Yeah. That she can do those things. With someone with her, obviously. Oh yeah, of course. And if we, and all the pictures you just see, like me or Cole riding with her with the ambu bag, we always have the ambu bag right there. 'cause you just never know. Yeah. It's um, true. Yeah. Yeah. 

But they're also, outside of the carnival, but they had these pony rides. And I was like, I don't know what she's gonna think about this. . She's been around horses, but she'd never really seemed that interested and on what she has a right. And , we have an actual, Hippotherapy simulator in our house that she uses before every PT session. And it's this mount that you sit on is this big. Cushion seat. She sits on it and it assimilates the gait of a horse. So in theory Cool. It's just as beneficial as. Horse therapy or something. Hippotherapy. Yeah. Yeah. 

Deonna: And it's in, I didn't, I know horse therapy was called hippotherapy. Like hippotherapy. Yeah. That doesn't make sense. Sounds like you're riding a hippo. 

Rhandyl: I, yeah. Yeah. So she's used to that. So I was like we'll see. So I took her up to the Little Pony and I was like, do you wanna ride? And she grabbed onto the saddlehorn and sat up there and I walked beside her and held her trunk. And she sat up beautifully. She didn't slump over. She didn't put her head to the side. 'cause that's her favorite position. Even though she has full head control, she likes to just throw her head over. She chooses, not she use it, but yeah, she, oh man. She loved, yeah, she loved the pony ride. So I was like, okay, that's cool.

Yeah. And then I teased my husband. I was like we're gonna get some ponies for the backyard. Hey, you out in the country? Yeah. You could do it. We could totally do it. No, but he was like no. Yeah, he's not a horse person and I am, I'm like, oh, come on. You can just get some mini horses. But 

Deonna: that is cool that she can do it though. I didn't know she could do that. They always are showing you what they can do. 

Rhandyl: I know it was exciting and I was just glad that she was having a good respiratory day because she was able to do all of that without the vent. Because that would've been, yeah, the vent almost impossible. Screws up everything. . So she was able to just have her. PMV passy muir valve on throughout that. That day that we went to the carnival, it was beautiful, like perfect weather. So it was just all around good times her, and that sounds had a blast.

But, like I said. It was not handicap accessible and I have always wanted to, ever since I heard about the amusement park in. Texas that is all handicap accessible and really cool. But you guys got to do that this spring break, so I can't wait to hear all about that. Yeah. So tell us what y'all did during your spring break.

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Deonna: Yeah, so we wanted to take Ali to Morgan's Wonderland. It's in San Antonio. It was built by a dad who I think was like a real estate guy and he had a disabled daughter named Morgan and. She's not in a wheelchair, but it's just he wanted a place where she could. Feel comfortable, I think, and be able to do these normal kid things.

And so he built this and it's just the beginning of what he's doing. It's crazy, like when you're down there, he owns a lot of property around Morgan's Wonderland, which that's like the. The park type thing. But then they own like all these soccer fields right there. They own a new building that is going to have like accessible haircuts. They help you find jobs if you're disabled. Oh, how cool. And I heard from one of the Dane talk to one of the guys that works there, while me and Ally were riding a ride one last time and he said that they're building a. A hotel in San Antonio and each floor is gonna be catered to a different type of disability.

Like in one floor it's gonna be people who are like Ali, who are in a wheelchair and who need Hoyer lifts in the room and need accessible showers and all this stuff. And then, another floor might be more for kids who , have autism and have sensory issues or things like that. I'm really excited about the future of that.

Rhandyl: That because way cool. 

Deonna: You could stay there and then go to the park, but it is a really cool place. Allie said that it's the happiest place on Earth. She was like dissing Disney basically. Oh, I love it. But she was just saying how everything felt like she could do it. But I'll go into what it is. 'cause I know a lot of people like me were curious to what it was actually like when you go there. 

Yeah, I'm definitely curious. 

 It's not an amusement park in the way that like Six Flags or things like that is where they have 30 rides. There's a smaller amount of rides. But each ride has been very thought out. They actually got a new ride, two weeks after we left. So we're excited 'cause there'll be a new ride when we go back. But the price is not bad. Like I think for our family of four. So Allie gets in for free, if you're a disabled person, you get in for free.

Deonna: But I think it was like 70 or $80 total for all of us to, that's not bad. Bad at all. Wow. Oh no. You spend that much going bowling or something. Yeah. So it was, nothing . So Ally liked that she got in for free. She felt like a,

Rhandyl: oh yeah, that's amazing. 

Deonna: But I kind of like to describe it as this amazing park that just so happens to have rides and all these things that you can do, but it is basically the nicest park you've ever been to in your life. But everything is wheelchair friendly. And it does have a waterpark, which we didn't get to do because it wasn't open yet. That's more of a summer thing. But I tried to peek at it through the, fence and stuff. Yeah. 

And they have these wheelchairs that can go in the water and so you don't have to put your wheelchair in the water like you can transfer, which like for us on a vent, that's not really something we are going to probably be able to do. But for most kids, if you even are just in a wheelchair and not on vent, you can get in the water. And I've, they told us that it's all the same. Concept of being accessible. So if you go during the summer, you get to experience that. But we didn't get to do that part. But , everything's pretty manageable. It's not one of these huge parks like Disney where you can't see everything you want to in one day. Like it's very manageable. That's good. 

And. What I liked is all the employees that I interacted with, except for maybe two people, all have some sort of disability and I thought that was cool how they are hiring. I. People with disabilities, and that's wonderful. They, and they were not messing around. Like they took their job very seriously. They made us be very safe, which I appreciated. Like they wouldn't let you cut any corners. They were like, no, we have to strap her in every single, like time the exact same way. So they were really conscious of her safety on the rides and things like that. Every ride had. Tie downs, like what we all have in our vans and stuff. Yes. 

Rhandyl: And school buses, things like that. Yeah. 

Deonna: So then that was nice too, because as the parent you felt empowered to help them like, yeah. Hooker down. 'cause it's the stuff we're used to. And so they have those on everything and they have belts that go across them, so there's no way your kid's gonna tip over on a ride in the chair. Yeah. Like it's, they really thought it through. I mean it's crazy what they thought about, but. Oh yeah, I could talk about this all day. But basically they have a few rides there. They have a Ferris wheel ride that is like, it looks like hot air balloons and you're basically enclosed inside of it, but you can see out. Yeah. And yeah, there's ramps that get you up onto all the rides and everything.

And something I appreciated about them is, you know how like sometimes you feel like you're putting someone out, when you're having to set up a ramp or do something and everyone's in a hurry. Yeah. Like you never felt that way there. Everybody just, they saw you coming. They were getting the ramps out. They were getting ready to go. Like they, I don't know it just was a very good feeling. Yeah. But. The Ferris wheel was fun. We did that one first and I wasn't sure how she was gonna feel about the Heights either. Yeah. And she was like oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. 

But she had fun. She rode every ride like nine, 10 times. So good. Yeah. But the Ferris wheel is really cool. They have a river boat, which we realized Ally had not been on a boat since her accident. And we were like, oh my gosh, that's crazy. But they have this river boat, they have a little lake they take the boat out on and you just get to go out on the river and just it's nice or , not on the river, on the lake. Yeah. And so that's fun too, just getting on a boat. She hadn't done that in forever, but 

Rhandyl: That's so cool. I didn't know they had, a little. Um,

Deonna: So yeah it's bigger than like a little pond, but it's, yeah. But you go out there and everything and then. They have a carousel and they have the regular, animals like what you were talking about. But then they have these other spots where , they look , like sleighs or things like that. , but they have animals on the side. And Ali and me or Ali and Dane. Could get inside of the carousel with her and it would move up and down a little bit, I think. Yeah. And so she got that feeling of the rise and fall of the carousel. Oh, cool. So they have a wheelchair carousel. 

Her favorite ride , I think it was called Jets Wonder Bikes. But you basically get inside of this little, thing, and you're going in a circle around, but you're going up and down based off of whoever's riding with you. They have foot pedals that are like a bike. Oh, okay. Or they have those arm pedals that you can pedal with your arms. Yeah. So me and Dane and Ali and Cole, every combination. We rode that ride. That was her favorite ride. And sometimes if there was no wheelchair person waiting, they would just let her stay on. 'cause it was like, what's the point? Yeah. But but yeah, she loved going up as high as she could and we were going pretty fast. It was like a real you like 

Rhandyl: I saw the video. Oh my gosh. I was wondering, I saw that video. I was wondering if you guys were having to control how high 

Deonna: the height? Yeah. Yeah. We controlled the height, but she rode that one's so much and they had separate lines so they could see oh, , there's this many wheelchairs waiting or whatever. But , there were a lot of wheelchair kids there that day, but it was not overly packed that day, you only would have to wait in line a few minutes, like I think Oh, that's great. It wasn't crazy, 'cause their spring break was over and it was chill. Yeah. 

Rhandyl: But most amusement parks are, oh, you know, ridiculously long waits. I can't even imagine taking Remi to like a Six Flags or like it Yeah, no, I cannot wait to take her to Morgan's Wonderland. 

Deonna: She's gonna love it. Like she, and she's probably gonna love different things about it than Allie did. 'cause they're so different about what they like. , our entire life is oh, I'm. Having to squeeze through here or, oh, this is hard, or whatever. Every day. Yeah. With that place, everything was really wide. You weren't ever stressed about fitting somewhere or going, like it was just like, you could almost feel like a normal experience. And there were a lot of disabled kids there, but there was also a lot of just moms there with their kids. Playing around that day and the kid wasn't disabled or Yeah. Or didn't appear to be anyways yeah, it's not like it was just for wheelchair kids,

but I thought about Barrett because they have these humongous sandboxes that are, oh gosh, under they're under, everything is shaded. You aren't gonna get the worst summer near your life here. But they had these huge sandboxes that have those light. Giant digger things Yes. That you can play with. And I thought, oh, Barrett would love that, but Oh yeah. Allie was not interested in that and thank goodness, because she wouldn't have, it's sand yeah. 

But they did have those wheelchair swings and. You strap them down like you're in the car. Yep. And she rode those a million times. Those were probably her second favorite thing, and it just made me be like, oh, I wish our town had just one of those. I know. It just, I know. Is fun. But she rode those a whole lot too. And you have helpers from the park helping you get in and out of those and everything. And so that, she really loved that. And they told us this cool story that this guy from, I think they said from another country, he came to Morgan's Wonderland as an adult. He had been in a wheelchair his whole life. And he sway all day long in one of the swings and said he had never sway in his life. And I'm just like, oh my gosh.

Rhandyl: Yeah. I was just thinking so many people in general that are wheelchair bound the majority of their day life, , they don't have those. You think about the vestibular simulation or those sensory of the swinging and the spinning, like it's definitely something that they don't get to. Ever do and ever do. I mean, They think about this. It sounds like this park is so incredibly well thought out, not as it is not just for the rides, but for like you said, the space. Just accessibility. It's spread out for everything that's, yeah.

Deonna: Amazing. I appreciated the shade. 'cause we live in Texas. It is stinking hot and it was a nice day that day. Like we, it was almost like cold, so that was good. It's easier to deal with Ally's stuff when it's cooler than hot. Hot, yeah. But, oh yeah, the swings were really cool. I know, I can't, I had fun with those. Wait, I would love, she'll love that. So my thing about that is, but they also have the other swings where you can take 'em out of the chair and put them in those basic ones that we've all been in. Yeah. But, yeah. But they also have other stuff too, for siblings who wanna swing like it sounds like regular swings.

Rhandyl: Yeah. It sounds, I'm just thinking. Even though Remi can get in and out of her wheelchair, but we are having to manually do that for her. And so I'm just thinking of how nice it would be as a caregiver to Yeah. For her to get the same thrill and , not have to be transferred in and out of her chair all day long.

Oh, it's so much easier. Oh my gosh, yes. That would be. Game changer for sure. To 

Deonna: To Allie. When you get Allie out of her chair in a situation, she doesn't feel secure anymore, so Yeah. She's not in her safe place. Yeah. Yeah. It's oh my gosh, , am I gonna fall? Whatever. That makes sense. That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. But , it was really good. 

And then , I was thinking about y'all when I saw this, 'cause my kids don't like fish. They just are not interested. But they have a fishing pier and I'm assuming it's catch and release, but they have a fishing pier that's off of that lake. Uhhuh and there's these big docks and you can go out there with the employees and you can fish. And kids were catching fish. Like it is not, that must be a majorly stocked lake, yeah. But but yeah, so you could. Go fish all day. You could go spend hours just doing that one activity, which I thought was super cool.

Wow. They have lots of playscapes, lots of just fun, playgrounds and stuff like that, but but cole was able to push Ally up onto the play scapes, which , usually that's not the case okay. Like Barrett and Remi could go up onto the play scapes and she could watch him do certain things and, do stuff like that.

Yeah. They had some stuff that we were like, what is this? They had some playground things I've never seen before that we had to go figure out. But parents who know would be like, oh yeah, that's what that is, yeah. But they had this other little area and it was like an indoor area. And it had a little four D movie where you were sitting in a chair that was shaking and moving. Oh, cool. And it had wheelchair bases too that would shake and, jostle you around. And Allie thought that was cute. That wasn't like her favorite thing, but she liked it. And I think a smaller kid would like that. You know what I mean? Yes. Yeah. 

And then inside that same building, they had a little grocery., play place where you could pretend you were at the grocery store. And then they had another little room that was like a newsroom and Cole and Allie went in there and it was pretty funny. They were pretending to tell the news and it was like the weather on a green screen. Oh, how cool. And it was just like silly and funny, but it was just like a funny little escape from the heat for a minute kind of thing, .

Rhandyl: But yeah. But that ahead, that's something that I feel like, kids would think is awesome just to like assimilate being on the news or, yeah. 

Deonna: Oh, it was funny. Yeah. That's, Cole was like telling us what the weather was gonna be. It was just like stupid, but it was funny, and then Allie thought they had great music playing Ally's like, this is my favorite song. Wait, no, this is my favorite song. Like every song. So they had that, they had a really great fun, positive, pop, fun mix. That kids like and that adults like too. But they had food on the premises.

They had two little restaurants, so you can get a little hot dog or Frito pie and drinks, so that if you wanna stay all day you can. I was gonna ask about the food options. Yeah. It's kind of like concession stand Sure. Type stuff. Like they don't know, like full restaurants on premises, you know, like stuff like that.

Yeah. But we stayed all day long. I think that you could do it in a morning or do it in an afternoon, but if you are like us and you're like, okay, we need to stay here as long as she's having fun. Yes. And we just told her, we'll, stay until you wanna leave. And we were the first people in the park and we were the last people to leave.

Like she, aw, Allie, I know all day. We, which we were fine with it. We didn't have anything else planned that day, so it was like, just go for it. But yeah, we were there all day, so we did end up eating lunch there. So it's just like concession stand, but. They had I thought this was cool. And I don't know what other shows they have, but they have this really nice amphitheater, which again, wheelchairs are not a problem like they are everywhere else we go. Mm-hmm.

And they had a animal show. This lady came who has a little traveling zoo and she did this little show. She had a snake, an owl. A bunny, a turtle, just like some different animals. Oh, that's fun. And the kids got to, she did a really good job. I can't remember what her name was, but she taught them all about all these cool facts.

Allie knows all these random facts about owls now and tells everybody all these crazy things they can do. But, we ate lunch while that show was going on, okay. Yeah. So, But yeah, that was a really cute thing and I think they have, you can tell they have different shows 'cause they have a huge stage and stuff. Oh. Like she was fun right there in front of you. Like close. But yeah, they have a big stage that looks old timey, wild west looking Uhhuh and so it, they must do other shows. I'm not sure, but I'm sure, yeah. 

But their newest ride was this zip line. This is the only thing Allie didn't do, but she could have done it. So it's this four person zip line and , you get in it and it feels like the rollercoaster seats where your legs are dangling. Yeah. And she could have done it like. You would've had to have gotten her out of her chair for that one, but it had a box, like metal boxes behind all the seats for your oxygen tanks and your event, and like all these things that they thought about what if a kid's on a vent, what if a kid's on oxygen, whatever. Wow. And so they. Have these containers where you would set all that crap, like the pulse ox and everything behind. Sure. All the stuff. And then it's a five point harness that, and it was leaning back just enough to where if you didn't have any trunk control, head control, like Allie, you could do it.

, I tried to talk her into it and Dane's like, man, I don't know about that. That just looks. If she freaks out up there, because this one does, this is the only ride that was a little bit reminiscent of a typical ride. Like you go up in the air, like I think 180 feet up in the air. Oh, wow. And then it . Releases you, but it's a controlled, you know, speed drop. You're not like just dropping. But yeah it was fun. You're over the lake, so the water's under you, but Oh, cool. You can see all the turtles and the fish like down in the lake from a pi, but me and Cole and Dane did that one . Four or five times and we had a lot of fun doing that. But I tried to say, Hey, do you wanna go do it? And she's like, no, don't ask me again. I'm not doing no, because she knows I'm always the one, like trying to push her to do stuff. Mm-hmm. She's like, no, I ain't doing it.

But but it is cool to know that. She can do it and that she, that they thought it through and thought, okay, what if a kid is this or that? Remi can do it. And she'd probably think it was fun. But yeah, they got a new ride that they said is gonna be similar to, the dragon that like swings back and forth? Yes. They got something like that just recently, oh, okay. Allie's like, we have to go back to do that one. And I was like, oh yeah, no.

It was seriously so worth like that's why we went there was just for that to give her that experience. since we're in San Antonio, the river walk is the famous touristy thing to do. We did go down there. It was on St. Patrick's Day, so they had dyed the river green. Oh. So that was cool. Yeah. We were like, oh, the river looks like pretty actually today. 'cause usually it's just like brown. But we went and did that and.

I'll tell you two things about that. The boats are all wheelchair accessible. They've just pulled the boat right up to the edge of the dock, and you just roller straight on and . Like they don't have strap downs or anything, but you just locker and you're good to go. That'ss. So cool. The only thing about the Riverwalk is you do have to pay attention to the maps because. There are so many elevators, but you have to find where they are. Yeah. Because the Riverwalk is not at street level. It's no down below. So people who've never been there, just FYI, you have to find we went in through the mall area, which was easier because of parking and stuff. But yeah, you just have to pay attention to where the elevators are when you're walking around. That way you can . Get back outta there at some point if you are ready to leave. Sure. But we did that. 

But yeah, the Morgan's Wonderland was the reason we went and totally worth it. If you live anywhere, even remotely close to Texas and your kid is never, I. Got to do the things I talked about, it's worth the trip. Allie would've gone the second day again, but it was close that of course she would that day. You know what I mean? She would've done it like she had so much fun. She's and I don't even think their season passes aren't much. If you own a season pass, if you thought you were even , gonna go maybe. Twice a year or something, it'd be worth just getting the season pass. Okay. And yeah it's not that much. 

But yeah he's a really cool guy that did it and it's just cool that he used his money because he is a wealthy person and he used his money to do something really good. Over the top. Good for people. 

Rhandyl: Yeah. And obviously he is a dad and a caregiver for his disabled daughter and that he was able to come up with, I'm sure it took so much planning and so much thought and organization. Yeah, I've seen them interviewed before and it's just they're such special people to. Be , fortunate enough to be able to open something like this, but then to continue to make it better. , 

Deonna: and their symbol is the butterfly and it's just, we've talked about the butterfly, even last episode or whatever. Yeah. And how it just, I. I like that symbol for them. And it's really cool too. They have a section of the park where you can go learn about the history of how the park came to be if you're interested in that. But they also have these cutouts of his daughter in different places. And I was like, okay.

Her cutouts make her seem. Like she's really tall and Dane's like, oh no, I read about it. She's six five. Dang. Like his daughter is like way tall. And I was like, oh, I thought they just made her larger than life. And Dane's like, no, I think those are accurate. Like cutouts of how tall she actually is. Wow. I was like, oh my gosh. She, we had Cole stand next to her and we were dying laughing. It's not that tall, but that's funny. But yeah, she was taller than Dane, my husband. 

But yeah, it was funny. But no it's a totally amazing place. I would say it's even worth the flight, like if you, you know, wanna bring your kid to a place where you don't feel like, oh, like they can't do that, or they can't sit there.

Rhandyl: I'm sure it's one of the only ones in the. United States. 

Deonna: Yeah. That I think so. And just the attention to detail of things was crazy. And I think even on some of the rides they had, cartoon renderings of kids with a wheelchair or with the, yeah. Crutches or just different things like that. So your kid can see themselves in these characters that are all over the park. But yeah, his attention to detail is. Crazy, and I think he really listens to what people. Feel sure. But yeah, I'd be interested if you guys ever go to see more what the waterpark side of it is. Yeah. Since she can go off vent a little bit. But 

Rhandyl: yeah we're definitely going. Yeah. Hopefully this summer. No, it's my only thing is the heat, like you said, it's so hot, but it's hot there.

Deonna: Yeah. Yeah. It is all obviously concrete and then it's that squishy foam. . For like the playscapes and stuff like that, concrete gets hot, obviously. Yes. But then if you don't have concrete, then it's not wheelchair friendly. So it's like they do what they gotta do. But yeah. If you win in the morning though, I don't think it'd be too bad, yeah. And you really can do, you can do the entire park in a morning. But you may only ride stuff once or twice. Yeah. Whereas we did like over and over. Yeah. But no, it's, it was really good.

That's why we wanted to share it with you guys so that if you think it's a possibility to go there, I promise you'll have a great time. It's a really fun. Park and he's always, I think all the rides are made like in Italy or somewhere. And he has them sent over like they're custom made and sent over. But , they have no plans of stopping the progress. And so I'm interested in this hotel in the future. 

Rhandyl: Oh yeah, that sounds so cool. 

Deonna: He, yeah, he understands the disability community in a way that I wish other people would even. Remotely try. Mm-hmm. Understand. So we love him. Allie wants to write him a letter and I'm like, we will definitely do that. Aw. Yeah, hopefully he can get it. But we just wanted to share about anytime we do something that we think other people might. Want to do. 

But San Antonio's a cool town too. There's a lot to do Mexican food. Mm-hmm. There's a lot of really cool kind of Mexican culture that is in that town. , I'm not from Texas, but you have to go see the Alamo, even though Oh yeah. Little, even though there's really not underwhelming. Yeah. Col we pulled up and Cole's like, oh, it's smaller than I thought. I was like, that's literally what everyone has, everybody said since the dawn of time, but it cracks me up.

 But yeah, so we just wanted to share that with you guys and give you a little, we haven't done a catch up in a minute. Yeah. So we were giving y'all, we'll try to get back to those, it is, life has been happening. Life. 

But so yeah, we hope you enjoyed this episode, and if you guys have been to Morgan's Wonderland, we'd love to hear about it in our Instagram. I'll probably make a video sharing so you guys can physically see all the things we did. And so, um, yeah, we had fun with this one. And we will see you guys next time.

**Disclaimer

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