Let's Get Started!

Last week we did some calculating and decided if we are going to do anything this summer

we'd better get started.

Daddy needs to schedule his vacation days and he managed to snag some Mondays.

With our crew it is better not to try anything too involved on a weekend when things are crowded.

We decided to try this amusement park and we LOVED it!

You can buy ride tickets and only really pay for the rides you take.

The tickets are good "forever"

You can take your own food INTO the park!

Parking is free!

We spent $90 for our crew of seven and had $12 in tickets left over for another time.

                    All but the youngest could ride the Sky Ride

                            She took a nap while mom and the other children rode the "turnpike"

                          I left Faith do the honors, it was a mother's dream, I could reach over and control the gas cause she wasn't quite skilled enough to do both the steering and acceleration.

                                       Joe was allowed to maneuver on his own

                   and Hope drove her big brother around, she must have told him to sit in the back because she didn't need any help.

                Daddy was the only one brave enough to brave the Stratos-fear.
   They sat you in this contraption and slowly too the top....148' above ground and then they drop you..
        you land softly, but he did admit that the ride seems much shorter when you are watching it than when you are sitting on it.

               We all rode the water ride at least once...but Hope, dad, Joe and Shekinah wanted a second round so I was able to get pictures. I didn't know how Shekinah would react to getting soaked, but...

                                                          I think she enjoyed it.

     Hmm, this one should have been at the top....Zeke and I took this ride later and he was wondering why it was so relaxing the 2nd time. We decided he felt the pressure of being responsible for both Faith and Joe the first time. When I was a teen, I didn't mind heights or crazy stunts, but the minute I ended up being responsible for children I began to have a bit of fear of heights.
On the way home Shekinah had her obligatory screaming fit... and Faith had a 'snit' so we should be well started on our recovery from a very fun day.