Funny Dames

I think this is hilarious and cute at the same time.



That is Grandma McKinlay and Lorna, another gal who lives at The Lodge. Lorna LOVES grandma! She goes in her room all the time and visits with her and helps her eat and takes care of her, as much as she can. Lorna is no bigger than a flea, really - she's the littlest lady I've ever seen! She knows about grandma's struggle with dementia, so she doesn't mind answering the same questions over and over again. She's a really neat lady - I had a chance to visit with her one day last week, and she is fascinating! She's from Provo, she loved to hike every weekend, she lived in Southern California for many years where she and her husband liked to ride their bikes along the beach, and she majored in CHEMISTRY in college!! Anyway, I love Lorna. And I love that she loves grandma almost as much as I do. :)

*FYI - I know this post says it was created June 23rd - that's when I wrote it. But my computer would't load the picture properly, so I had to wait - and I just now got around to getting it done, so it's now the 30th. Sorry! :) *

Fun at Lagoon

Friday was my office Lagoon Day, and when I opened the idea up to family members, I was surprised at how many wanted to go! So I got eight tickets, and it ended up being Melissa, me, Mike, Dan, Steve, Kate, and Kate's friend Kurt. We missed Shawn and Mar and Jesse!

We all arrived at Lagoon around 5:00 or so, and the shenanigans began.

Kate and Kurt headed for the new(-ish) roller coaster called Wicked, while Mike, Dan and Steve went for something called the Cliffhanger.



Turns out it wasn't much of a cliffhanger at all... the ride had technical difficulties, so the row the boys were on didn't do much except get them wet. But Melissa and I had fun watching them get ticked off, hehe.

Dinner was at 6:00 so we went over to eat, then headed back out for more rides. Kate and Kurt headed for the Tidal Wave, and the boys and Melissa went for the White Roller Coaster. Then the boys got on the Colossus (in this picture, you can't see them that well, but they're toward the back).

They said that ride almost redeemed the lameness that was the Cliffhanger.

We stayed on that end of the park for most of the evening - Melissa went on the Wild Mouse with the boys (looks hilarious, hehe),

then the Spider roller coaster, which sounded entertaining because they all shared a car and whoever was in back of Melissa got a perfect view of her hair.

I think it was after the Spider that we got in line for the Wicked roller coaster - Dan went off to ride the Screamer on his own, but made it back to stand in line with Mike and Steve. Melissa and I ducked out of line... no way was I riding that thing.

The boys almost didn't get to ride it either... they closed the thing down for 15 minutes or so. Not sure why, but we speculated that someone had dropped something, because the workers were all scanning the tracks for something. But they finally got it going again, and the boys got on. These are my favorite pictures... I took before and after shots, because the line for this ride was so long, I wondered if it was going to be worth the wait for them. So, here they are before...

And here they are after.

Guess it WAS worth the wait, hehe! They loved it! (It was too dark to get shots of them actually riding the coaster, unfortunately!)

Then we met back up with Kate and Kurt, and Mike, Dan and Steve went toward the other end of the park, and I ended up going on the Terror Ride with Melissa and Kate and Kurt.

Clearly it was horrifying.

Then we got Icees (thanks for humoring me, guys) - they had this amazing cherry lime-aid flavor that still makes me happy to think about, mmmmm. The four of us headed home after that, and it wasn't until later that night that I learned that the shenanigans hadn't ended for the boys yet - we split from them at the Terror Ride, and they went on Flying Aces, then took the Sky Ride over to the Musical Express, where they all crammed themselves into one car, Mike tearing his pants in the process. I WISH I'd gotten a picture of them all crammed into one car on that ride! I hear there was much laughter - and a few tears, as Mike was on the outside and had both Dan and Steve leaning into him (or is the term 'crushing' appropriate here?). He said he thinks he bruised his shoulder bone, hehehe!

It was a little chilly and overcast, but it didn't rain - it was actually really nice not to stand in lines for rides and roast in the sun. It turned out to be a really nice evening!

Anyway, I think a good time was had by all! Thanks for coming, guys! :)