Wild Waves 2007

[elfs]

I took the family to Wild Waves as part of the annual Play Hooky day. I deserved a day off; life has been just a little stressful between the backlog at work and some legal crap and just general life.

We met our twelve or so compatriots at the gate: tabbifli had bought tickets already with talek. kendaer was there, as was the very lovely V with her two delightful children, fallenpegasus, lisakit, and a few others whose names I know but won't freely deploy in public.

Kouryou-chan and friend

We did the dry runs first. Kouryou-chan was finally tall enough to go on most of the rides, and as you can see she had a heck of a good time, enjoying them all. Her reaction to the roller coaster was "That was fun! That was it?" Yeah, kid, that's about it: less than sixty seconds.

Lunch was greasy, but you expect that from a theme park.

After lunch, we did the water rides. Omaha and I managed to foist Kouryou-chan off on V, and after going around the silly river thing a few times we did the white water rides. I caught up with V and her kids and mine, and ended up with one of hers and mine over at the wave pool. Eventually fallenpegasus and lisakit took Kouryou-chan over to the hot tubs and I ended up with one kid who wasn't even mine.

Eventually, we got the kids sorted out and I sat in the hottub with lisakit, honoring Heinlein and giving her a footrub. There was more time in the river loop, more time with the children, and I got a horrific sunburn. Yeah, I doubled my chances of skin cancer, again.

Dinner was at the Olive Garden, where everyone looked very tired, but happy. All in all, a good time.

Comments

[orcaarrow.livejournal.com]

Just so you know, I am jealous. You seem so content and happy with your life. You have a great group of friends to hang out with. That is just so great. Not that it matters, but I thought I'd share.

[kendaer.livejournal.com]

*laugh* well Play Hooky Day happens every year, and you (or anyone else) is welcome to join us. We post the information in the seattlecats community.

[woggie.livejournal.com]

Okay, just what is Play Hooky Day, and when is it?

[kendaer.livejournal.com]

Play hooky day for this year has already occured (last Wednesday), but it's a yearly event.

See the entry about it in the LJ community I pointed to for all the gory details :) The short version is, it's a day when a bunch of us go to the Wild Waves water park here in Seattle on a Wednesday in early August and have lots of fun :)

[littleone66.livejournal.com]

You may use my LJ should you choose. :) Nice picture of M.