My plan (I always have the perfectly timed plans in my head... One day I might learn, but not anytime soon) was to be walking through the gates right at 10 am.. spend a couple hours on the kiddie rides, lunch and an hour or so at the Lagoon-a-beach, and then head to the BBQ with tired kids and parents.
The morning started off okay, even though we got a late start out the door. We stopped at a grocery store for lunch and snacks, Justin needed breakfast from a certain fast food establishment, which he got while I ran into the store. We (thankfully) realized that we had left Kate's blanket at home, so we ran back -let the kids have a drink of Orange Juice, which Kate proceeded to dump down the front of her. Grabbed the blanket, washed her shirt in the sink and were on our way quickly, complete with a kids t-shirt flapping in the wind from my window. Classy.
As we were getting off the exit things were looking good, we were only about 30 minutes behind schedule, Kate had fallen asleep during the drive, and the shirt was even dry. That's when Justin asked if we had the tickets. We did not. They were hanging on our magnet board. At home.
We called Lisa and they were getting ready to walk out the door in another 10 minutes, so they stopped by our house to grab our tickets. We drove the kids around for a while, sort of looking for a park or something, but just went back to Lagoon and parked. As soon as we got out of the car and started packing up the stroller Hyrum had to pee. Really bad. Thank goodness for little boys and dads... and an empty water bottle in the car. Gross. I'm not sure what we would have done if it had been a little girl!
After getting all covered in sunscreen and waiting around the front gates for a bit longer we finally made it into the park.
The lines weren't too long for the kiddie rides and the kids seemed to really like it. Kate is a bit of a mystery- she's just usually not quite as animated as Hyrum, but she didn't cry on any of the rides and was always eager to get into the next one. Hyrum liked it and we made it to just about all of them before stopping for lunch.
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| Nolan, Skylar, Kate, Ethan, Laila and Hyrum |
After lunch we went to the water park and got changed. It was a welcome cool-down after melting in the sun for a couple of hours. We brought Kate's little seated tube and Hyrum's life jacket. He loves to swim with the life jacket and did pretty good. They could have both stayed in the water a lot longer than we actually did. They also liked the slides and kiddie area of the park.
We changed again, went back to the bowery where the rest of the family was. We grabbed some free ice cream, ice for our water bottles and walked over to one of the extra-money attractions to watch Justin, Skylar, Dave and Dusty go on the sling-shot ball. Our little family walked over to the train for one last ride, Hyrum and Justin stopped at one of the haunted houses, and then we were on our way. The kids were asleep before we got out of the parking lot.
In my original plan... I was thinking we'd be leaving the park around 3, and make it in time for the last bit of the family BBQ. Given the ticket issue in the morning, I guess leaving around 4:30 wasn't too bad. We debated on going out to see the family, and decided to just do it. We met everyone at Annie and Ross' shaved ice stand (Shavy Jones) and got a yummy shaved ice, complete with ice cream at the bottom! Amazingly enough, the kids found a bit (or a lot) more energy once we were there and we wore them out again.
It was a very busy and hot day, but I think everyone had a good time. Not so sure what I'll attempt next year (with an added kid and minus a husband... we may have to skip it, but we'll see!)
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