Off to LAGOON!!!

Yesterday we spent an entire day (12 hours total) on a family outing to Lagoon amusement park!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU to Aaron and Heather for the two free tickets, and to Naomi for her discount coupon and free parking pass, and to Jerry Seiner trucks for our final free ticket. (FYI--anyone can go to Jerry Seiner and test drive a car for a free Lagoon ticket!!) Nothing like wheelin' and dealin' to get a normally priced over $250 day for almost FREE. We also got free catered lunches thanks to Aaron and Heather again!!! My kind of day of deals!!

Here the kids are off to a SPEEDY start in the kiddie-rides area "race" cars.

They started out with the kiddie roller coaster, Puff the Magic Dragon. Darin and Ellie in the front seat--Logan two seats behind them.

But they didn't stay with the kiddie rides for long!! Especially not Logan. This dragon head is from the Magic Dragon ride. It is a FAST round and round ride that made me sick just to look at it. Logan and Darin went several times, and later in the day convinced Ellie to go--she loved it and went twice.

More kiddie rides.....bumper cars and flying animals.

Fling airplanes, swings, spaceships, and the "egg" ride. At one point Darin and the kids were coming off the Magic Dragon ride, I was zipping the camera into the backpack...and Logan was GONE!! It was like he had just vanished!! Now, we do know Logan and figure he had just run ahead a bit as usual, and would run right back to us. Nope--he didn't show up. He was nowhere!! I was trying not to panic as we searched for a few minutes. Then Ellie spotted him on the "egg" ride. Yep--there he was up in the air on another ride. I tried not to bust into tears giving him a little lecture when he got off the ride. I did feel like he'd be fine--but that panic the few moments he was "lost" got to my emotions!!!

Rattlesnake Rapids!!!

Logan and me buckling in for the classic white roller coaster ride. He was so brave!! He loved the roller coasters, Wild Mouse, and especially Colossus!!! At the very end of our day we talked Ellie into trying it--and we all went on Colossus together. Upside down twice at a high rate of speed reminds me that I am not sixteen anymore!! But if the kids are "daring" to do it--I have to do it too!!

Here are Logan and Dad buckling up for "The Bat", another pretty big ride for the kids. Near the end of the day Ellie was really getting brave and decided on her own to ride "The Bat" as well.

We spent a couple of hours in Lagoon-a-beach, the water park. Logan of course LOVED it that he was tall enough to ride the big water slides. And Ellie was content running around splashing in the kids slides area. Here are the kids watching a song and dance show in their PJ's after swimming. It really was such a perfect day. We loved the view from the huge ferris wheel. We were amazed at how great the kids did--not a single second of whining or complaining--just great attitudes and a FUN FUN time!!