The Goon!!

Skyler and I went with all of his extended family from Kenra's side to "not quite the happiest place on earth," but somewhere that gives a close second called(according to 4 yr. old Adeline) "The Goon;" known to everyone else in the world as Lagoon.  Where Skyler spent his childhood going to Lagoon, this was my first time, and I definitely was not disappointed:)

This is little miss Adeline that enjoyed being as close to me as possible at all times:)

I think my favorite story from Lagoon was when we went on The Sky Ride. It's a ride that functions like a ski lift but is used to go from one end of the park to the other without walking. Little miss Adeline insisted on going with me.  Justus wanted to go as well and I of course could not resist his big blue eyes asking to go with me.  Therefore, I was standing in line with Adeline on my hip and Justus holding my hand.  As we were waiting in line, Justus looked up at me with his previously mentioned big blue eyes and said, "will you please pick me up to get on the ride, my mom always picks me up."  I said of course I will even though I was secretly not sure how on earth I would manage detaching Adeline onto the charging seat and lift Justus onto it at the same time.  As I attempted to come up with a game plan, I instead submitted to the game plan of just winging it, because no matter what I thought of, I knew it would not work out.

Here are the two love birds on The Sky Ride, my in-laws.

The line slowly shortened and sooner than I wanted, we were standing on the yellow line as the evil metal chair swung around the corner and headed right towards us.  My first instinct was to swing my right shoulder back(that Adeline was attached to) and attempt to detach her.  There is where my plan failed; detaching Adeline was not about to happen.  Instead I kept her attached with regrets of having wasted my precious few seconds trying and attempted to pick up 6 year old Justus while the metal chair was slowly, yet quickly taking him out from the waist down.  As he desperately looked up at me and pedaled his feet as fast as he could I was fortunate enough to swoop him up and plant all of our tooshes on the chair on literally the last milisecond.  Even though that was the result, it didn't mean they didn't need to stop the whole sky lift and slightly embarass me. 

Now, you have to realize that by now I'm completely frazzled and just relieved that both of the children made it onto the lift successfully.  But, that was not what was going on in Justus' head.  After being on the lift for about 30 seconds Justus looked up at me with his eyes and said in a quivery voice "you promised me!  You said that you would pick me up and you didn't."  It was at that moment that I knew I had failed.  I felt absolutely terrible.  Luckily Justus was understanding because he then said "It's ok, I understand that you had to help Adeline too."  He was so cute about it but I still felt terrible. 

I know I didn't mention this before but, I actually don't really like this ride.  My fingers usually get really tingly because of the height and I really have to try to not think about how I could potentially fall and die.  With my fear, Adeline conveniently decided to start talking about how we were going to fall off the ride and crack our skulls open.  Meanwhile, out of nowhere Justus decided he wanted to say more than 5 words to me at a time.  So on my right side I have Adeline telling me we're going to die and I have no idea what Justus was saying because I was too destraught about what Adeline was saying, but don't worry, they were both have a complete conversation with me separate from eachother.


This story, although starting with a failure, did end successfully, I was able to hoist both children off and we ran off to our victory.  Will I ever take 2 children on that ride by myself again? No! haha it was actually a pretty funny adventure and made for a good memory but I was not thinking those things while it was happening.  But,  i definitely can't wait to go back to Lagoon again!