King's Dominion

Sometimes I look back on my posts or activities, and can't believe how crazy Lee and I were to do the things we did!  Well, this is one of them.  Remember how I arrived home Saturday night from Mississippi?  Read on....

Sundays are always great.  After church that day, later in the afternoon, Lee and the kids had a lesson about who, what, where and when from the Book of Mormon, using Legos.  Once Abinadi, Noah, Alma, and others enter the picture, and people go off from the land of Shilom to find Zarahemla but find a land of a fallen people, and etc., etc., it gets a little confusing! 




Though our kids don't spill things every night now, messes still happen.....


Lee surprised me with these beautiful roses when I arrived home from Mississippi (on Saturday that is, not Sunday, ha ha.)


So, now we're on to Monday.  It was the last day before school started.  We had the crazy idea to surprise the kids and take them to King's Dominion.  They knew we were going to go, but not when.  Lee and I looked at the calendar and it wasn't going to work to go in September.  So August it was.  We had some coupons for IHOP from our summer reading program, so headed there for breakfast.










Then on to King's Dominion! This was our fist time there.  We picked a great day to go.  The lines weren't bad at all (not sure how they are normally....)  The most we waited for a ride was 15 minutes? 








Clark went on tons of rides, mainly with Lee. I went with him at the very end of the day on some really fun rides.  I have a hard time on rides and get nauseous quickly, so I need to take frequent breaks.  But I love the rides, so I still go on the them.  Clark and I were going to go on two more rides.  But the supposed second-to-last ride was too much for me.  It was really, really fun, but I thought I was going to throw up in the hallway leading to the outside.  Thankfully I didn't, but I couldn't go on the last planned ride. 




Our friends the Bensons went to King's Dominion early this past summer and won one of these HUGE gorillas.  Well, they gave it to us.  The gorilla was poorly made and didn't last long at our house.  It was shedding like a hairy pet (Lee and I don't do pets....) and the stuffing leaked out like crazy.  Its life was short at our house.  We saw them at the park and had to get a picture.  Like the girl photo-bombing us?  Ha!










The ride was so funny to me.  I was the backseat passenger a few times around.  What was funny was watching Shanna drive, all prim and proper, then watching Haley drive, all relaxed yet crazy.  Definitely saw their personalities shine through!  Someday Shanna will be driving on the highway in her Mercedes and Haley will be out in the sand dunes in her Jeep. 






Around 2 pm we went outside to eat some food we had brought.  We arrived about 10 minutes before the park opened and got a great parking spot.  That night we enjoyed the only thing we bought all day at the park--one funnel cake.  We all shared it, and one was plenty! We thought about buying food their, but their prices were so outrageous.  I mean, $12 for a Chick-fil-A meal?  No way! 


Though the next morning---the first day of school---wasn't as smooth as it could have been, we had a great last day of summer vacation.  Oh summer, I am missing you already!  I LOVE summer.  LOVE LOVE LOVE it.