So, last weekend, we went up to Farmington to pick up some Lagoon tickets with our Get Out Pass. The Get Out Pass stuff is good until next summer, since we got just got it in July and it's good for a year. However, when I picked up the Lagoon tickets, they printed them up for this season only, which means we only had a few weeks to use them before Lagoon closes at the end of October. Next weekend won't work cause of General Conference and other conflicts... UEA weekend could work, but I worry if we wait that long then it will be really cold or something and we'll miss our chance. So, we had been invited to something at 4 today (baptism for a friend's little girl), and this past Sunday Corey said we could make it, but then we talked and decided we needed to say no and make our family time and activity the priority for us. So we did, it felt liberating, and today was the day we made for ourselves for a family outing! Lagoon is open from 11 to 11 right now on Saturday, so Corey headed up with most of the kids (Mel had GMS and Ethan stayed home for work, plus he was still sleeping when we left) while I took Daniel and waited for Abi to finish her soccer game, and then we headed up too. When we got there, Life 360 helped us almost locate each other. But then Daniel saw the merry go round. Looks fun and good for a toddler, and there wasn't a line, so we got on. For some reason we put Daniel on a pig.
Daniel seemed to sense that something momentous was about to take place!
He was making a really cute expression, I caught a second of it on video, cute boy.
Little D was not ready for the ride to be over.
Luckily, there was still no line. We got off and ran right around to go through the entrance again for take 2.
Daniel rode the "bullseye" this time. He liked the bullseye horsey!
Around again, then our turn was done again, he was sad again, so we got back in line again. (I think we came on a pretty good day). He making his cute face again.
I texted Corey "We're on the merry go round". They came and joined us - let's do it again!!
Corey found a nice swan to sit in too, haha. Taking a quick second to do a bit of double duty answering work emails.
Daniel, you ready to ride again?!!? Yeah, let's go! Yee-haw!
Oh no, the merry go round stopped again. Daniel is sad again. Sorry buddy, what is this, 5 times we've gone on it? Let's go to a different ride.
Now that I was around to take the toddlers, Corey took off with the older kids to do a few more adventurous rides. I took the little kids and we bought fries.
Then we waited in line for a long time to go on the train ride. It was a long wait, but the kids were excited when we finally got on the train.
We took the caboose. Are you guys excited?!?!
We had just missed the last train ride, so we were right in front. I let the kids entertain themselves by making silly faces and seeing themselves with my phone.
You guys are pretty funny!
Natalie hamming it up while we continue to wait for passengers to board.
The train ride was fun. I would have gone on it again if the line wasn't long. But it was long, so we called it good and went to find where the other kids were. Corey was buying them lunch. We got there and ordered some ice cream.
I didn't know how much Corey had bought for them, but found out afterwards that it was a lot... and now he was gone with Abi and Lily. Wes was too stuffed to help finish it off... I told Hyrum the Dole Whip was made of pineapple and the ingredients looked like it was vegan to me, come on, help me out.
Hyrum and Owen did as much as they could, then Wes took Owen and Daniel over for a ride.
Daniel hadn't gotten his hand stamped. I thought 2 and under are free in the park. Turns out they are free to enter, but not to ride anything (except the merry go round) unless they have tickets. Boo
But the ride attendant was nice and let Daniel on for one ride.
I came back to find Natalie still working on her ice cream and she was now a complete mess, nice.
I helped her finish off the ice cream. Corey and kids were still off having fun, I took little kids on the boat ride. Long wait for that one too, but they liked it. Wes and Hyrum hung around to help me out.
And the boats are moving! Owen is feeling like a real sailor!
Round and round the little ride they went, quite content.
Ay Calipso - Ding ding -
After that I had had about as much fun as I wanted and was ready to be done. So were Hyrum, Wes, and Lily. I headed home with those three and Daniel, and Corey stayed for another hour at the park with Owen and the rest of the girls. It was a fun day at Lagoon and I'm glad we went and made it a priority to spend time together. We stopped by Costco on the way home to get some groceries and some dinner. I saw this big honkin' jar of Nutella and thought of Joseph and his Guatemala krepes.
I'm glad Nutella is an international food. It keeps the world together, a little piece of home that we've been able to find everywhere we've lived - Costa Rica, Brazil, Chile and now with Joseph in Guatemala, go Nutella!
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