Lagoon 7-20-15

On the way to Lagoon, it was raining.  A lot.  We started getting pretty nervous that our day was going to turn out a lot different than we had planned.  Especially since we hadn’t even brought jackets.  But lucky us, as soon as we pulled into the park, it stopped.

We grabbed some In ‘n Out Burger for lunch.  And I packed a cooler with wheels for us to have snacks and dinner eventually.  It worked out well, though it was difficult to drag the cooler, and push the stroller with Kaden at the same time.

Right when we got there, we headed for the line for Cannibal.  It was long.  Grandma and Brooke met us there.  Grandma took the baby, the cooler, Sadie, Tyson and Justin and headed back to the smaller rides while Ryan, Brooke, Kylee, Hailee, Dylan and I stood in line for the ride.

We were nearing the front of the line when the line stopped moving.  The ride stopped running.  And we stood there for like 45 minutes waiting.  They were adjusting something with the ride.  Up until then Brooke wasn’t nervous, but suddenly all the possibilities of things going wrong started worrying her.  And the track was wobbling in one area.  I thought it was pretty funny.  I mean, Brooke starting to freak was funny.  The 45 minute wait in the sun without the line moving at all was not funny.  But we eventually made it.

We got front row.  Brooke continued to freak out, which kept me laughing instead of freaking out myself.  Ryan was freaking out a little too.  It was a fun ride.  I was on the far right on the front row and it is a little trippy since I’m not directly over the track, it was disconcerting.  But it was a really fun ride.  Unfortunately, my headache kicked in as soon as we went upside down, and I was pretty much ruined for rides the rest of the day.  (I came down with mastitis a week before and it had wiped me out for a few days even with the antibiotics.  And then I had major headaches, made 100 times worse whenever I stepped outside.  I had been fine, until that ride.)

We had a really fun day.  Justin and Tyson really like Bombara so we tried to get Sadie to go on it.  She refused the first time, but I bribed her with a slushie and she decided to go the second time.  Ryan said she screamed bloody murder the whole time and it was hilarious.  She wasn’t traumatized or anything, she’s just a screamer (like her dad, lol).  She refused to go again.

She went on Odysea with me when I promised to keep our car low the whole time.  She got soaked!

The only other ride I wanted to do was Rocket.  Dylan was 50 inches this year which meant he could do all the rides.  So I wanted to take him on my favorite.  Hailee and Kylee came with us.  Dylan almost chickened out when we got up to it.  But I bribed him with an ice cream.  I’m all about bribery when it comes to forcing my children to face their fears and try something fun.

Dylan is a screamer too, lol.

We don't know this girl, Sadie just talked to her in line and decided to ride with her.  Sadie was alone with me and Kaden for a little while, but she had no problem jumping in lines and riding rides by herself. 

Tyson wasn't scared of anything.  He went on everything he was tall enough for.  At one point I was hanging out with Tys and Sadie and Kaden so I was letting them take turns deciding what they wanted to go on.  Sadie wanted the carousel.  Tyson kept saying, "I'm not doing the ferris wheel!"  I tried and tried to tell him the difference between the carousel and the ferris wheel but he was pretty certain I was going to try to take him up on the huge ferris wheel.  Lol.  Even when we got to the carousel and he saw it, he was still acting scared.  I thought maybe because he does not like animals...  It was just too funny.  But he quickly realized it was a very mellow ride.

 

Kaden was a good little trooper the whole time.  He got fussy now and then.  And he wouldn’t nap for very long ever.  He took a few cat naps here and there.  But mostly he just watched everyone and wanted to be held if we weren’t moving the stroller.

He’s sure cute, though.

He got really tired and I thought he might just put his head down and doze off in the stroller.  No luck.

The kids look forward to this trip with Grandma and the cousins every year.  We're glad Grandma comes and has a good time doing rides with the kids.  She even went on Cannibal before the day was done.  My kids think she must not be too old since she can still go on scary rides.  She must be in great health, lol.

I eventually found a little corner out of the way and nursed him and he fell deep asleep for a good 30-45 minutes.  But it was about then when Ryan was saying he was ready to head home.  So we packed everything up, even squished Cheryl into our little, over-crowded car, and hit the road.  Dylan and Sadie and Kaden all fell asleep rather quickly.  Kylee just can’t sleep in the car.  We didn’t get home until about 12:30.