Lagoon

Since Danny has had to travel so much this year for work, he hasn't had many chances to take vacation days. He decided that while he still only had one employee in the office that he would take a day off last Thursday so that we could go to Lagoon together as a family(for anyone who doesn't know, Lagoon is the only amusement park in Utah, at least that I know of). The girls were so excited to go and it was so fun to see their excitement throughout the day as they got to go on different rides. I didn't pull out the camera nearly enough since I didn't get a single picture of Danny. Here is the only one with me in it.

Most of my pictures were taken during the 2 hours we spent in Kiddie Land. The girls rode everything in there at least once. Here they are on the swings.

The car ride, which they later did again driving their own cars.

A helicopter ride.

And of course, the roller coaster--Pretty much the only one in the park that Ashley could ride. We did find one big roller coaster that she could go on later in the day. They are in the front and I love their faces in this picture. They just look like they are having so much fun.

This boat ride didn't look very exciting, but the kids loved ringing those bells. There was quite the meltdown from Ashley when the ride was over because Alyssa didn't let her ring it at all the whole time they were on the little boat. During the ride, I was so concentrated on how much Alyssa was ringing the bell, it didn't even occur to me to tell her to give her sister a turn.

Lagoon also has a small water park in it, so during the hottest hours of the afternoon, we went over to that and splashed around in the really cold water. The girls were too small to go on any of the water slides, but they did enjoy the lazy river and the kiddie area with smaller water slides. Unorturnately, the sun went behind a big cloud just as we were finishing up with applying sunscreen and didn't come back out until just after we had put our normal clothes on again. With the sun behind the cloud, the girls were freezing every time we left the water.

We opened the park at 11am and left about 20 minutes before closing (which was at 10 pm). We had a short thundershower come through between 8 and 9 pm that closed down some of the bigger rides. We couldn't ride most of them anyways, so it didn't effect us. The rain didn't bother us either since we were all wet from a couple of water rides that the girls wanted to go on.

It was a fun day and we were glad that we went. We just wish that some of the height limits for the bigger rides were less. We also wish that we didn't spend so much time waiting in line. Lagoon isn't quite like Six Flags and the Disney Parks when it comes to crowd control and moving people on and off of the rides quickly. But the tickets are probably half the price too, so I guess I can't complain.