Lagoon!

This year we never ended up booking our Bear Lake place that we usually stay the weekend before school starts and by the time I started to be sad that we weren't going to stay there this year, it was all booked up. So after going back and forth about what we wanted to do instead, we finally decided on staying in Layton one night then going to Lagoon. Gunnar had never been and Ashton had only been the one time I took him when he was 4.

So we drove down to Layton last Saturday and stayed the night at the Hilton there. Of course the boys had fun swimming as they always do, and I was able to go shopping for a little while.

Then we all went to Roosters for dinner...it was right next to our hotel and pretty good.

Sunday we got up and had breakfast at the hotel, then got ready for the day and drove the short drive to Lagoon. We got there right as it was opening at 11:00 and there were already a lot of people. We had gotten some great discount tickets from Lars' work.

 Anyway it didn't get too crazy busy for awhile and we were able to ride everything we wanted to with hardly any wait at first. Now that Ashton is as tall as he is, he can pretty much ride everything and he LOVES them all. The crazier, bigger, faster the ride the better to him. We quickly found out that Gunnar was about an inch and a half too short for lots of the big rides.

That was fine with me, I was happy to NOT go on too many of those.

But he did find a couple bigger ones he could that he loved and went on those over and over. And just like I sucked it up and had fun at Seven Peaks a few days before, I made myself do the same at Lagoon that day. Not my favorite place anymore...the rides make me sick these days and I had a headache most of the day. Oh well...watching the boys have so much fun was worth it.

Our first ride of the day...the TerrorRide...I love Gunnar's cute face in this :)

I did have fun doing the bumper cars with Ashton...

 It got a lot busier as the day went on and we later found out that it was predicted to be the busiest day of the year up to that point because it was the first day of buy one ticket get one half! And here we thought maybe it wouldn't be as busy because it was Sunday!

Oh well...the only really long line the boys stood in for about an hour was for the log ride. Then if any lines were too long, we just moved onto something else. Gunnar's favorite ride was this Bombora ride...

...a rollercoaster that he was tall enough for. It never had a big line, so we rode it a lot!

Ashton said his favorite was Wicked. Way too crazy for me, I didn't even attempt it. I think he and Lars went on it 3 times.

You can see them in the back row on the left...

He also loved Colossus...

 We stayed till about 8:30 that night I think. I'll be fine now if we don't go back for a year or two, but it was still a fun way to end off our summer break!

They were exhausted by the time we finally drove home after stopping in Layton for dinner at about 9!