Promise Kept

 Lagoon....how I hate thee, let me count the ways.  So Carter's school has an end of the year party where they take the whole school to Lagoon. Actually it gets worse. It's high school day at Lagoon and any high school that wants can give their kids discounted rates and head up to Lagoon for the day. Well Carter is only in 6th grade but happens to go to a school that is 6-12 so all the kids were allowed to go. I am not a big fan of Lagoon day but really not a big fan of my sixth grader heading out with a bunch of high schoolers. So I was the mean Mom and told him I didn't want him to go but....we could go later as a family. We usually do anyway so no big deal.

 We managed to put it off as long as possible. We finally made it to Lagoon after school had already started again for his seventh grade year. I am no good for any of the amusement park activities. Spinning makes me want to puke. Actually I have thrown up before after riding roller coasters, I don't even have to actually spin. So what do you do? Find my brave face...put it on.
We did have a fun day of spinning, swirling, turning, you name it we did it. Thankfully the day was broken up a bit with trips for ice cream, and a giant hail storm with marble size hail. It gave me a few chances to re-cooperate between rides. We also rode the train, my suggestion, not too much crazy motion on the train ride. Surprising how they had an awesome collection of animals on their train ride. Some that the Hogle Zoo doesn't even have. I think they have inherited Siegfried and Roy's white tigers because they have their fair share of white tigers.

Yummy ice cream stop! So good. I love the sunlight on Ali in this photo, picture perfect.

The kids had fun running in and out of this hail storm. Whenever they were out they were shouting in pain and anguish over the hail pelting at them. But of course they would continue to go out into it. Strange summer storm.