END OF SUMMER

Even though school started weeks ago, this is our last summer event every summer. To me this marks the end of our summer. What am I talking about you wonder?

This would be our trip to Kings Island. This isn't just any trip to the amusement park. This is a special day for us because the park is closed to the general public. My husband's company and a couple other companies in the area reserve the park at the end of the season for employees and their guests. It is the best time to go because it is not crowded at all.

When I was younger we would go here and every ride was an hour or more wait. You spent all day waiting in lines. Not on this day! Nope, you walk up and pretty much get on almost instantly for just about every ride in the park. We love this! I am not sure I could go on any old day anymore because I have been so spoiled by this day every summer.

This summer Luke brought a friend with him. This is his best friend in the whole wide world. These two boys had a blast yesterday. The funniest part to me was they both had navy blue shirts on, one had Lego Batman on his shirt and the other had Lego Star Wars. They are nuts about Lego games. Here the boys got to go see Scooby Doo. Thomas wasn't to sure about Scooby so he wouldn't get down but mom could walk up and he gave him a high-five.


Then we road the helicopters together. If the seat doesn't have a good tight buckle this child is climbing out. Drives me nuts!


Here they all road in the cars together. I am afraid it wont be long and Luke is going to move onto bigger rides so I need to treasure this time together before we are split up in the park.


I laughed as Luke and his dad flew. His friend and his friends grandpa were right in front of them and the whole time they were flying they were shooting at each other. They play Star Wars all the time. Boys, what can I say!



Finally close to the end of the day we took the lazy train ride and it put Thomas right to sleep in grandpa's lap.

It is funny when I was a kid Kings Island's kiddy land was Hanna Barbara land. Then Paramount bought the park and it changed to Nickelodeon land. Paramount sold the park and it is now owned by the people who own Ceder Point. So I heard that Nickelodeon land will be gone next year and Snoopy will be taking its place. I just hope they still keep Scooby around as part of the original Hanna Barbara land.

If any of you know anything about Ceder Point they have some of the largest and wildest rollor costers in the US. Well our park got a new coaster this year. I will ride coasters but I hate hights and the new one is really, really tall. It had on huge hill that dropped. My husband begged and begged me to ride. I just couldn't do it! I stress when I ride another coaster called the Vortex because of the stupid hill. You look up at the top of the Vortex hill and then turn and look up much higher at the new Diamond Back hill and I just said no way. I stuck my ground on this one. I am surprised because my husband has always been able to persuade me to ride these things. Before we dated I would never ride a roller coaster.

I have way more photo's from this day but these are just a couple highlights.

I can now say, Summer is officially over.