Spoil, Grimace

Addie on the merry-go-round

Jack and his friend Derek on the log flume . . . in the rain.

Taylor and Addie on the kiddie coaster.



Spoil - To impair the completeness, perfection or unity of.
July 2, 2009

We went to Lagoon on Thursday. It was kind of spur of the moment but we had all been looking forward to it. When we got there and we were eating our picnic lunch, we commented on how nice it was to have some cloud cover to keep it from getting too hot. Not long after that, when we were on our post-lunch/easy-ride train ride, it started to sprinkle, but we were sure it would blow over. Not so much. It just rained harder, and harder. We stayed and let Addie ride the kiddie rides until she was really wet. Then Jack and his friend came and found us and told us they were shutting rides down. So we went back to the pavillion where our picnic was and waited for it to blow over. Lane tells me it was about an hour, but since I was disappointed and pouty, it seemed to me like a lot longer. Eventually it started to let up, so we wandered over to the Pioneer Village area to see what was going on. Not too surprisingly, there was no line for the log flume, so we took a turn on that, and Jack and his friend just kept riding it. Since there were few other riders, the ride operator didn't even make Jack and Derek get off between rides. After they were tired of that, we learned that the other rides were open again so we went back to having fun. I went with Taylor and Jack and Derek to the big-kid rides, and Lane stayed with Addie. Addie had gotten so wet that her teeth were chattering, so Lane bought her a Lagoon hoodie to keep her warm. So between a new hoodie and all her fun rides, she was in heaven. It warmed up as the evening went on and everything turned out ok. The lines were shorter because I think a lot of people went home early.

I don't know if we'll be doing Lagoon again any time soon. Addie is almost too big for the kiddie rides, she probably will be too big by next year, and most of the adult rides have warnings on them for people with heart conditions. That doesn't leave her with much to do there. The only "big" rides that she went on were the train, the log flume and the tilt-a-whirl. There's not much point to going if she can't do anything, and she would just feel bad if she was left out. So that may have been our last family trip to Lagoon. I think things with Addie will continue to get harder as she learns more about what she can't do. She desperately wants to just be like everyone else, and we have to try to reason with a 6 year old. What we need to do is find more things that she can do, and spend our together time doing those things.

Grimace - an ugly or distorted facial expression of pain, disgust or displeasure
July 3, 2009

Lane decided to not be helpful at 11 pm when I was desperately searching for my picture of the day, so this is his punishment. I really shouldn't punish him at all - he took me out for a nice dinner. We went to Iggy's. We've never been there before and I ordered some sort of lime chicken and it was really good. He even got me a dessert at Kneaders. I don't care if he's grimacing - I still think he's cute.