Lagoon

Yesterday we went to Lagoon...and it was a blast! I worried because our (meaning Jeremy and I's) last experience there (yes, it was pre-kids...it's been THAT long...almost 8 years!) was the total opposite of "a blast"...whatever that is! I'll give you the short version of what happened 8 years ago so you know what I have in my mind as the "lagoon experience." I found out Jeremy has some form of motion sickness...I discovered this after we went on our first ride of the day... which also turned out to be our last! He got really sick and the complaining/whining started (I find a lot of similarities between him and our oldest!) This was driving me crazy...you have to know I am a roller coaster girl...I LOVE them...the faster and higher the better! So, I wanted to take full advantage of this day of fun and GO ON MORE THAN ONE RIDE but alas it wasn't to be so I took off my fun hat and put on my sympathetic wife hat and told Jeremy we could go home since he wasn't feeling well. And I guess this would have been a great idea if we (meaning Jeremy :) ) hadn't lost the keys on that one ride we went on! We spent the remainder of our day going from one end of the park to the other to check the lost and founds in search of our keys. So from then on Lagoon=NO FUN! and we have just stayed away!

I've been hearing about their new kids rides and it had been long enough that I was ready to give it another shot and I'm glad I did because we ALL (yes, even Jeremy) had a great time! I think Jeremy may have had as much, if not more, fun than the kids!

We went with the Thomas' and we met the Thompson's later that night (they are lucky enough to have season passes so they came down to hang with us for a couple of hours!)

We started the day out at Lagoon-a-beach. It was fun but we didn't get to spend too much time there...we wanted to get to the rides!

The kids had a great time on all the "kid" rides...We grown ups had fun too since we can ride the rides with the kids now!

Hannah was actually tall enough to go on the "Big" rides! She was a great sport. She went on the rides once and then we went back to the kiddie land. If you ask her Wicked is now her favorite ride...OK she didn't like at all...it was a "I did it once and now I never have to do it again" thing!

We found out Wynnie hates all rides that have anything to do with water. She wanted to go on the log ride so we spent over an hour in line (no joking, besides Wicked I think it was the longest line I stood in) and then when we were about ready to get on the ride she started crying and said she didn't want to go. We had just spent forever in line and there was no where else for Wynnie to go (Jeremy was on a bench somewhere taking a nap and I wasn't about to leave her by herself while Hannah and I went on the ride) so I was a mean mom and I made her go--kicking and screaming! I figured she would calm down once she got on the ride and saw how totally NOT scary it was, but I would be wrong. She continued to cry and scream the entire ride! She did the same thing later when we were in line for OdySea only this time there was someone I could leave her with (which meant I got to ride with my sweet nephew Evrett..."Aunt Minnie can I ride with you?" + "Aunt Minnie can I steer the car = Aunt Minnie ALL WET!! But how could I tell him no...he's such a cutie! And it really wouldn't have been too bad but it was 10:30 pm so there was no sun to dry me off...I spent the rest of the night wet!) Anyway, Wynnie then told us she didn't like the water so we will make sure we avoid the water rides when we are with Wynnie from now on (at least until she outgrows her fear of them!) She did however, go on the Bat (which was the only "Big" roller coaster she was tall enough to ride) and she loved it---so I think I have a future partner for all my roller coasting adventures...as soon as she grows a couple of inches or I can find her some platform shoes!

So now (at least for us) Lagoon = FUN!!!

(Jeremy was even talking about getting season passes next year!)