Lagoon - It's what fun Is not

Apparently in Utah and surrounding states, the only theme park is Lagoon. I have always heard about Lagoon from people in Utah and they make it sound fun. After marrying Brad, a utahn, I finally got the opportunity to go (I believe this was in Oct. 2009). Well, let's just say that it was packed (and I hate crowds) and short rides were not worth the extremely long lines. And Brad did not enjoy it much either, even with all the halloween stuff.

A week ago, Brad suggested that we buy a book at Deseret Book so we could get discount Lagoon tickets. I'm all up for any reason to buy a book, so I agreed. So we went to Lagoon on a Saturday, when it first opened. Within 1.5 hours, we had ridden 8 rides. We then walked around pioneer village, got hungry and left after being there for a total of 3 hours. 3 hours for $32 per person. Lagoon is doing this bounce-back program where you can go back within 10 days of your initial visit, for only $10. Due to lack of other activities, we decided, why not? As we did all the rides, we decided to do all the water activities. However, after waiting for friends, who flaked out on us, we got there around noon. The park was packed. The lazy river was so packed, it was not moving. (Lagoon has a water park portion called Lagoon-a-beach). It was miserable. We went on the Ferris wheel, rattlesnake rapids, and then left because every other line was ridiculously long and lockers were expensive.

I have sworn to never go to Lagoon again. Now, growing up in NC and California, I had the opportunity to go to many other theme parks (Magic Mountain, marine world, universal studios, paramount great america, and busch gardens). These parks have decent rides that last longer than 30 seconds, safer rides, and are cheaper than Lagoon. So after wasting money on a ridiculous park that has been around since my grandparents were young kids, I will never go again.

On a side note, there was a rumor going around that Six Flags was going to buy Lagoon, and when I heard that, I laughed.

Proof of Mexico

Well, here are pictures from our cruise.

<- This is a picture taken while one of us was parasailing in Cabo San Lucas.

We swam with dolphins in Puerto Vallarta.

One of the elegant dinner nights.

We walked along the beach in Puerto and it was a gorgeous sunset. ^

The whole group: Sean, Brad, me, and Ashley. And of course while in So Cal, we went to BJ's! We got Sean and Ashley hooked.

Also while in Cabo, we went to Lover's Beach and the Arch. You have to take a water taxi there and because the arch is at Land's End (the very southern most point of Baja Mexico) the waves are crazy dangerous.

We had a fun time.

Another Month Gone

I can't believe it's June already! This year is flying by. Well, lately we haven't done too much exciting stuff. We have played lots of mini golf. We played mini golf at every place down in provo, but now that we are up in kaysville, Brad wants to try every place up here. So far we have done 3 different ones. Brad also is playing softball and he is on two different teams. He loves softball, and I am the silent wife who watches the games/beats his fruit ninja scores. The game last friday he pulled his hamstring running to first base. Poor guy. His mom and I laughed really hard when he had to have his Dad run for him.

For memorial Day, my sister Robyn came down and stayed with us. She did homework, we played mini golf, and watched movies. Brad had to work memorial day, so Robyn and I just hung out and played cards. We attempted to play eygptian war, but we both couldn't remember the rules, so it turned into regular war.

Last weekend, my good friend Katie, from California, was in town. So we got together and went to kneaders for breakfast. Their french toast was really yummy. It was all you can eat, but we were too busy talking to get more food. But we sat outside and enjoyed some sunshine and had fun catching up on the past year. It was fun and my nose got pink.

I have been reading a lot on my days off. I have read Work and the Glory 1&2, The Gurnsey Literary and Potatoe Peal Pie Society, The Year of Fog, and I started the Screwtape letters. I didn't like the year of the fog and the screwtape letters didn't hold my attention. But I will keep finding more books in the house, and eventually get a library pass in davis county so I can find more books to read when Brad isn't home.

We did get a new computer! Exciting for us. We found an awesome Memorial Day special and since Brad's laptop is dying and mine is dead, we bought it. Windows 7 seems cool. I haven't done a whole lot with the computer, so maybe today and tomorrow I will have time to dink around and figure it all out.

We finally have all the pictures from our cruise, but it is a huge task to go through them all. I tried this morning. But maybe I will get up the gumption to post some of my favorites. Till then, I hope everyone is enjoying some good, much awaited, sun shine.