Lagoon Trip, Year 2

Many of you will remember our Lagoon Day from last year. It's kind of crazy that I've been writing on this blog for over a year now.

This year, we invited some different family members to come with us. Last year we took Grig's sister and brother-in-law with us. This year we invited my sister, and Grig's two brothers.

Grig had work the day of the event, and I was on my way back from Idaho. It didn't start until 5:00 p.m., so things worked out well.

We had a great time!

Havelock drove down with us and my sister, and we waited outside the entrance until his other brother arrived. His friend was kind enough to drop him off.

This was outside of the park while we were waiting. Havelock and Kevin were having a great time!

Once we'd gathered our complete party, we entered the gates. That's when I realized that we had forgotten our stroller! I convinced Grig to let us rent one, even though that was a little expensive. That was nice of him. It ended up carrying everyone's stuff, so it worked pretty hard throughout the night.

Hooray for strollers!

Once we got inside, we did one of the water-rides right away so hopefully we would have time to dry, and then we convinced Grig's brothers to try the Samurai.

Don't they look happy?

Grig's older younger brother liked it, but Havelock thought it was too scary. After that, we went and ate dinner, which was delicious. They served hamburgers, hot-dogs, and fried chicken. We also could get ice-cream, as much soda as you wanted, and chips. We rolled away from the tables and decided to stay away from the intense rides while our food digested.

Havelock and my sister decided to try bumper cars while we took Kevin on the Twirl a Whirl. It was approved for all ages, so we assumed it would be pretty tame.

I thought Kevin was laughing in this picture. Actually, I don't think he was.

It wasn't. However, Grig and his brother thought that Kevin had been laughing at the end, so I decided to go on the ride with him again. He wasn't very excited about the idea and he wanted to sit on my lap. I wasn't sure that was allowed, so I made him sit on the seat just before the ride got started. 

This picture was taken before I removed him from my lap. He might have been okay if I had left him there. 

He screamed nearly the whole time. Afterward, we decided we needed to stick with tamer things, like the merry-go-round. First though, we took turns on the bumper cars. First, Havelock and my sister went.

Then, when they finished, Grig, his other brother, and I tried our hand. I wasn't very good at it, but it was fun.

 After that, we went to the merry-go-round. Kevin had some trepidation about riding on it, but eventually he started to enjoy it. He liked the lion that he rode on.

After the merry-go-round, we wanted to ride on some roller coasters. We decided to start with the tamest one, and really old white one. Havelock didn't want to join his brothers at first, but they "convinced" him to go with them. That turned out to be one of his favorite rides.

Havelock's brothers talking him into going.

While they were riding that, my sister bought some cotton candy and shared it with Kevin and me. It was really good. At first, Kevin didn't want to eat it. He found the consistency to be strange. Eventually, he tried it, and then he couldn't get enough of it.

Kevin is angry that she's not sharing.

About this point, it became too dark to take pictures, so we just enjoyed ourselves and put the camera away. We rode on a lot of different rides, but we were waiting to go onto one called "Wicked" until the end, because we were hoping the line would be shorter. Compared to normal, it really wasn't bad, but we didn't want to wait if we could help it.

By the time we finally went on it, only Grig and I were able to go. My sister was nice enough to watch Kevin, but they closed the line before Grig and I finished. We felt bad that she and Grig's brother hadn't gotten to go (Havelock didn't want to), but I think everyone had a really good time.

Kevin sure did. He didn't even make it to the car before he passed out on his father's head.

We had a fantastic time, and we can't wait for next year (as long as Grig is still working at the same job). We'll probably invite different family members so more people get a chance to come with us. It's fun to do things with family, and roller coasters are exciting!

Day at the Amusement Park and Steer Licking

Friday, Grig's work had their annual "Lagoon Day," at a local amusement park.  When we first heard about it, he was excited to go and signed us up, but after talking to other people he began to feel like maybe it wouldn't be very fun because it didn't begin until 5:00, and a lot of the waterrides were closed.

I encouraged him to still go.  I had been to this particular park before, and I loved it!  It had been years, but I was really looking forward to it.  The tickets were extremely discounted, and we could invite up to eight guests to come with us at discounted prices as well.  The park would be closed expect to the company and their guests, so we were expecting shorter lines.

We left about 4:00 p.m., just in time to hit rush-hour traffic.  It took us a little longer to get there because of that, and we didn't arrive until 5:30.  Then, we had to wait for a while for Grig's sister and brother-in-law to arrive.   Once they came, we bought our tickets and entered the park.

I'm really wet from the Logride

Kevin's having a great time

It was an awesome evening.  Kevin, even though he's too young to ride most of the rides, immensely enjoyed himself.  There was one ride called The Rocket that Kevin particularly liked because of the noise it made.  It made him jump every time, but he kept saying, "Ooooo!  Oooooo!" because he was so excited.

They fed us dinner at 6:30, and then we went back to having fun.  Grig's sister lost her phone at one point, and we prayed that she would find it.  She did!  It was kind of broken, but someone had turned it into the lost and found.  That's was a blessing.  

Kevin, in line for the Merry-Go-Round

We took turns going on rides and watching Kevin, which was just fine with Grig's sister, since she didn't get to see Kevin very often.  We had a great time.  We took Kevin on the Terrorride, which he didn't find scary until the very end with a loud horn went off in the dark.  We also took him on the Merry-Go-Round.  He liked that, but it was about 9:30, and he was getting tired.  We still went a couple times.

At about 10:00, we met a new friend.  It was a little praying mantis.  Kevin liked it, until it jumped on his face.  Then, he accidentally squished it when it was trying to get it off.  We were worried about the mantis, but it was fine.  So was Kevin. 

Kevin accidentally trying to squish the mantis

The mantis afterward, he was okay

By 10:30 he was asleep.  Grig's sister rocked him to sleep while we were on a ride, and then they just wanted to hold him.  Grig and I ran around trying to get to as many rides as possible before it closed at 11.  We felt like we were dating again as we skipped and ran around the park.  It was quite the nice evening.

We got home at about 12:30 a.m., and then we got up at 7:00 to go eat breakfast at my aunt's home.  We helped them feed their baby cow and their four kittens.  We thought Kevin would be more interested in the kittens, but he really liked the one-year-old steers that they had.  He got really excited, especially when the big black one started to lick his feet.

There was a scary moment though.  My aunt's dog, Buck, got off his leash, and when we turned around, he was gone.  Grig was helping look for him, when he thought he heard a sound in the garage.  He went inside to find that Buck had cornered one of the kittens in a box.  After Grig dragged him out, we went to check on the kittens.  It took us a while, and we could still only find three.  My cousin was devastated.  Her favorite kitten was missing.  We told her not to worry, because she was probably hiding and would come out when she wasn't scared anymore.

Not long after, my uncle started the lawnmower and the lost kitten emerged, just fine.  We were glad she was okay.  It was an exciting couple of days.

It was nice to have a nice calm Sabbath.