Lagoon

Bryan's office had their company day at Lagoon yesterday.  We had so much fun!  The last time we went to Lagoon was when we were newly dating, in 2002, and Bryan ended up puking in the parking lot by the car...but that's another story.  Anyway, since then we've just been too cheap or had kids that we thought were too young, to go back to Lagoon.  But yesterday we went, spent the whole day riding rides, and it was a blast.  We spent most of our day on the kiddie rides, but that's OK--no puking for Bryan that way! 

Here's a self-portrait from the Tidal Wave.  (Our sweet boy Miles has issues with photo-taking.  He'll smile but NOT look at the camera, or he'll look at the camera but NOT smile.  He just can't seem to figure out how to do both at the same time.  Oh well...he's still cute.)

Here we are in line, ready to get WET on Rattlesnake Rapids!

Here's Tess riding her bumper car.  Miles couldn't quite get the hang of steering, as you can see from the video below...

Tess was a big dare-devil and would go on anything that she was tall enough for.  She was so bummed that she couldn't ride the Roller Coaster or the Rocket yet.  (Someday!)  Here she is grinning from ear to ear on the Paratrooper ride (I've always just called it "the umbrellas.")

Another shot of the kids, this time waiting for our ride on the train.  Miles actually got the looking AND the smiling in this picture (sort of, if you count the scrunchy-nosed grimace as a smile, and I do!)

At the very end of the night we went to see the special performance by Cirque Innosta called "L'orage."  It was so cool!  They had a magician, acrobats, and contortionists.  It was so unbelievable what these people could do with their bodies.  Here's a picture and video of one guy who could balance on anything...he would put his balance board on top of rolling cylinders, which were on top of a pretty tall platform.  As the show went on he would add more and more cylinders, stacked on top of one another.  It was so cool!  I took the video with my camera turned, forgetting that I can't rotate the orientation for a video; so you'll just have to turn your head to the side to see it!  (Also, I noticed that the whole performance is on YouTube, if you're interested.  It really was pretty awesome.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dylGx875jB0)