Clowning Around and Lagoon.

My current read is "A Man Called Ove" by Fredrik Backman.  I love his writing style.  I'm captivated by the story.

I highly recommend it, and I'm barely halfway through it.

Every Tuesday I sit in a the same orange waiting room, hoping for the best for my daughter and her life.  

Facing the reality that my ex will never really care about anyone aside from himself.  

Cryptic?

Yes.

While I'm more than happy to talk it out, my daughter isn't.  

So I keep her privacy, while still noting here that it's happening.

Two weekends ago I got up at 5:00 in the morning to arrive at Fear Factory to play with some clown makeups for an event.  

Clowns are hard.

Legit hard.

I tend to run out of ideas quickly.  As we have a huge clown section at Fear, that's probably something I should be working on, conceptually.

 

And then we took The Circus to Lagoon on major discounted prices.  The only way we can ever really afford to hit Lagoon.

This was also the trip where I officially wrote Lagoon off my list forever.

I'm too old.

Even on a Dramamine, I was struggling with motion sickness, and when Colossus left me feeling like my brain had been rattled and my eyes were still spinning, even after getting off the ride,  I was done for the day.

No more for me.

West feels the same.

Tayler and Brynn, our timid ones, have finally grown into a love of riding roller coasters.  You still won't catch them on the giant big rides with Sean and Cali, but at least they're not hovering around the kiddie section anymore.

"It's where fun is!"

We actually only made it 7 or 8 days at Lake Powell. The boat ended up breaking, and the wind storms started coming which made it difficult to sleep outside. We were hot and although having a great deal of fun, we decided to head home and clean up. Of course, I still had time off work so we decided to continue to use it "wisely". So after a cool night under the swamp cooler of our house, in our own beds, we packed up one more time and headed to Lagoon to camp over there for a night. It was fun and Cas tried a lot of new rides. Brynn and Tay tried a couple. And Sean made is debut on Wicked. Actually, so did I. And I screamed every time, I just could not get used to that horrifying feeling of flying straight up, and falling straight down. Holy moly. My favorite? The Spider. West laughed at my gasps every time it turned, but I loved it.

There was a free show of acrobats that was pretty cool, and I loved the BBQ pork sandwich we got for dinner in Pioneer Village. Yummy!

The circus visits Lagoon... for the first time

I can hear what you're thinking already, the first time? What? Yup, but it's logical if you think about the fact that the circus has grown up in Washington state and Vernal. Until about two years ago, when I moved back to the Wasatch front, they'd never lived in the city. SO... their first trip to Lagoon:
Cas didn't know what to think of the Tidal Wave. Finally by the end she was able to let go of the handle in front of her and declare, "that was scary and fun all at the same time!"
Tidal wave:
Musik Express:
The Bat:Brynn spent the day riding rides with Cody, Roya, and Yasi (my brother and his fam). She's really timid on the rides, but every time we go (thinking of Disneyland in this), she gets a little better. I think next year we'll venture to get season passes and keep letting them get used to the sensation. The overall census of the day: I didn't scare them too bad and they want to go back lol.