Dream Vacation Ends in Tragedy as Family Returns to Work, School

A summer vacation to a water park resort in Wisconsin ended tragically when the family was forced to return to their normal lives afterwards. The Tarpley family of Manhattan enjoyed a week at the Wilderness Resort in Wisconsin Dells in July. “It was the greatest vacation ever,” said 11-year-old Samuel Tarpley. His brother Ethan, 8, agreed. “It had, like, fifty-hundred water parks!” “I was all, yeah, we could just live here,” said their father, Todd, hugging his wife Jennifer. Within days, however, the family was forced to return to their pet-hair-coated Upper West Side apartment, pay credit card bills, work, and go to school. Samuel is reportedly attempting to invent a portal that the family can use to transport back and forth.