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Well, that was fun.
Aug. 14th, 2011 09:41 amNo, really. It was fun. :)
Got back Friday from a two-day trip to Sandusky with the whole extended family. Heather and Aaron, the littles (Teagan and Cael), my kids, Matt and I, and Sarah all went. We spend Thursday at Castaway Bay, which is a sort of indoor water park hotel. Not the biggest water park I've been to, but a lot of fun. The kids had a great time. In the interests of family togetherness, I even sucked it up and accepted the damage to my dye job and got in the water anyway. :) There were water slides and a floating snake and water basketball and a wave pool and all manner of good things. For dinner we went to an pizza place that had awesome pies -- it's been a while since I had one that good.
After we got done with dinner, we met up with Fredrick at the hotel and visited for a while. We ended up playing a new boardgame we bought at GenCon, Little Dead Riding Hood. It's made by Twilight Creations Inc. The game itself is cute, but the directions are horrid. They remembered all the corner case explanations and entirely left out an explanation of how the round of play goes. We were left to determine it from vague allusions in the text and hints on some of the cards, cursing all the while that we didn't play a demo at the con. At the end of it, we'd figured it out and had fun, but we spent half the game figuring out the turn issues and restarting once entirely.
Friday we got up and had breakfast at the hotel buffet (which wasn't cheap, but was surprisingly good) and went on to Cedar Point. We didn't make it there early enough to actually use the early entry passes we had, which was sad, but we did get there early enough to get close-in parking. The kids and Matt and Sarah rode things while I did homework and was Keeper of Stuff. There were a few things I could have ridden, but doing so would have taken time away from people getting on the bigger stuff, and as a result, I got more of my reading done than I've done in ages. Also, the weather was lovely. Everyone had a great time, and while it was noisy, it wasn't nearly so crowded as I was afraid it might have been. We walked the length of the park, and then halfway through the day, we switched off and took the littles home so that we could pick up the dogs from boarding while the boys and Heather and Aaron rode everything they hadn't gotten to while watching Cael.
High point of the day for me: watching Will and Matt go off to ride the Dragster, an utterly insane straight up and down high-speed ride, while Teagan and Al went off to ride a nearby spinny ride with no line and share nachos.
I haven't been to an amusement park since... wow. With my parents... I don't think Al was five yet. This may, in fact, have been the first time my kids have been at an amusement park since then -- now old enough and tall enough to ride everything they want. They had a fabulous time, and we're considering making Cedar Point a bigger part of our yearly excursions. I'm saddened to learn that my days of riding things are effectively over, but it was really nice to be able to have time and yet be social and useful and have fun with my kids and my partner and my friends.
Got back Friday from a two-day trip to Sandusky with the whole extended family. Heather and Aaron, the littles (Teagan and Cael), my kids, Matt and I, and Sarah all went. We spend Thursday at Castaway Bay, which is a sort of indoor water park hotel. Not the biggest water park I've been to, but a lot of fun. The kids had a great time. In the interests of family togetherness, I even sucked it up and accepted the damage to my dye job and got in the water anyway. :) There were water slides and a floating snake and water basketball and a wave pool and all manner of good things. For dinner we went to an pizza place that had awesome pies -- it's been a while since I had one that good.
After we got done with dinner, we met up with Fredrick at the hotel and visited for a while. We ended up playing a new boardgame we bought at GenCon, Little Dead Riding Hood. It's made by Twilight Creations Inc. The game itself is cute, but the directions are horrid. They remembered all the corner case explanations and entirely left out an explanation of how the round of play goes. We were left to determine it from vague allusions in the text and hints on some of the cards, cursing all the while that we didn't play a demo at the con. At the end of it, we'd figured it out and had fun, but we spent half the game figuring out the turn issues and restarting once entirely.
Friday we got up and had breakfast at the hotel buffet (which wasn't cheap, but was surprisingly good) and went on to Cedar Point. We didn't make it there early enough to actually use the early entry passes we had, which was sad, but we did get there early enough to get close-in parking. The kids and Matt and Sarah rode things while I did homework and was Keeper of Stuff. There were a few things I could have ridden, but doing so would have taken time away from people getting on the bigger stuff, and as a result, I got more of my reading done than I've done in ages. Also, the weather was lovely. Everyone had a great time, and while it was noisy, it wasn't nearly so crowded as I was afraid it might have been. We walked the length of the park, and then halfway through the day, we switched off and took the littles home so that we could pick up the dogs from boarding while the boys and Heather and Aaron rode everything they hadn't gotten to while watching Cael.
High point of the day for me: watching Will and Matt go off to ride the Dragster, an utterly insane straight up and down high-speed ride, while Teagan and Al went off to ride a nearby spinny ride with no line and share nachos.
I haven't been to an amusement park since... wow. With my parents... I don't think Al was five yet. This may, in fact, have been the first time my kids have been at an amusement park since then -- now old enough and tall enough to ride everything they want. They had a fabulous time, and we're considering making Cedar Point a bigger part of our yearly excursions. I'm saddened to learn that my days of riding things are effectively over, but it was really nice to be able to have time and yet be social and useful and have fun with my kids and my partner and my friends.
