Adventureland/Birthday Weekend

Last weekend was a blast with my daughters. We spent last Saturday at our local theme park, Adventureland. The girls and I, along with a roommate, arrived there about 10:45AM. We went on some pretty tame rides except for a couple of rollercoasters, had lunch and then went back to another area of the park. The rain started in about 3:15pm so we decided to head to the tent for the 4pm circus. We were hoping the rain would blow over. The circus was great. They had a magician that had an assistant who did these fantastic outfit changes. There was a woman who did some awesome rope and swing work. There was a horse trick. A guy who wakled inside a wheel and outside a wheel as it spun around. The finale was two motorcycles in a ball shaped cage. This is great stuff for a theme park circus. After the circus, the rain had mostly subsided and then quit. The roommate had to take off and as we were walking toward the front of the park we ran into a couple of ladies that work with the same company and go to my church. They had their daughters with them so the entire evening was spent letting the kids run around and go on all the rides they want to. It was quite fun for me, too, as the older kids wanted to go on the more exciting rides. I didn't tuck my girls into bed until 10:45pm. We almost closed that park down.

On Sunday, we celebrated my youngest daughter's birthday. She turned 8 a week before, but this was our first chance to celebrate. The oldest made the cake with absolutely no help at all and it turned out great. The big gift was a trip to the mall and some money to shop with. Paige loves to shop so this was the best gift she could have gotten. She bought a purse and some makeup to keep at my house. We also got some gourmet ice cream to take home to eat with the cake. She loved how we celebrated with her, so that felt good. She has such girly tendencies that as a dad it's hard to figure out what would really be exciting for her. The oldest is more obvious about what she'd like, which is nice and easy for me.

Two great days in a row and not much sleep, but it was definitely worth it.

I've been needing to do some other posting on here. I have some great political posts to put up and some more autobiographical things to post about. I hope to get some of that done in the next couple of days.