Lakeside

This summer, our kids participated in our local library's summer reading program. After completing 8 hours of reading (or being read to), they each got to pick out a new book. They also got a few free passes to some fun things. One of them was to Lakeside amusement park. I remember going there when I was little. Kristalyn and I were talking and we thought it was funny that the only ride that we could both remember was this ride where you are completely enclosed. It must have been pretty traumatizing or something! Anyways, we decided to go use our passes one afternoon last week. Kristalyn and David, the Pollocks, and the Beyerlein's went too. I don't think they have changed anything since I was a little girl. Everything looked pretty old, and they only had a few workers, so there were only certain rides open at a time. After a while the workers would move onto a new ride. Nonetheless, the kids had a ball. We got a ton of pictures of them having fun riding the rides. The very first ride we went to was the mini roller coaster. Alexis, Levi and Mason were the only ones who wanted to go on this one. Here is a picture of them right before the ride began. Kristalyn, David, Brandon and I stood on the sidelines nervously waiting to see how the boys would do. The roller coaster went around a few times, and so we got to see their faces as they whizzed by us. The first time they flew by it was the most hilarious sight ever! Levi and Mason's faces were priceless. They had these looks of total terror on their faces that only a picture could describe. We tried several times as they passed to snap a good picture, but we didn't end up getting a good one. By the end they were starting to get used to it. We were laughing about that one for a while. Here are some more pictures we took throughout the day.

As you can tell by their faces, they loved it. It was a very fun day. It's always nice to discover new fun places to go.