WHEN THE LIGHTS ARE ON

We have LOVED our season passes to the family-run amusement park that we've visited all summer (thanks Grandparents for the great birthday gifts!)! We've gone many times and spent a 7-8 hour day riding rides and enjoying the wave pool and water slides. But the one thing that we have not done is stay until closing, when it is dark. I'm sure the girls could have made it, but Mom (that's me!) was always wiped out by that time. So yesterday, after just two hours at the park, Avery & Ella suggested (in a persistent way) that this was the day to come back "when the lights are on". So we went home for an afternoon break and dinner and returned to ride the rides until the park closed.

The first 1.5 hours were still daylight, so we enjoyed some of our favorite rides and anticipated what was coming (when the lights come on!).

By 8:00 it was getting dark and we decided to ride Ella's most favorite ride, the YoYo (this is her favorite because she was finally tall enough to ride it, halfway through the summer :)

Next, Avery decided to wait (and wait, and wait, and wait) in line for her favorite ride, the "Screamin' Eagle"

During Avery's wait in line, Ella and I went to the "kiddie rides" -- maybe this will be her last summer to enjoy them! The boat she rode in had a very fitting title as we close our our summer . . .

Sea U Later summer -- it's back to school tomorrow!