California Trip Day 9 - "June Gloom"

Gabby made a friend.

The waterpark

Sam coming down the red slide. Does anyone look cold in this pic?

Running the race cars

Face painting

Things got a little silly...

Sam driving his mommy around.

Gabby driving her daddy around.

Aquarium

Bye-bye, Legoland.

I admit, this day did not start out that well. It was cold and cloudy, we got off late, traffic was bad, and there were more people in the park than we wanted. The whole reason we came back a second day was to spend some time in the water park. We couldn't have picked a worse day for that. Our two other SD days were sunny and warm but we saved the waterpark for today. A friend said in SoCal they call that "June Gloom." It was.

We did our best to shake off the gloom and went to the waterpark anyway. It was cold. Even the lifeguards were cold. Good thing was that it wasn't crowded. But it was cold. Sam was a trooper and went down the kiddie slides as long as he could stand it. Gabby is always a water trooper and tried all the big slides. She wouldn't do the lazy river b/c you had to sit up on the raft. In the cold and wind. The lazy river was cool, though, because you can add soft legos to your raft to "build your own". Sam was contemplating it when he tripped over his big ole feet on the flat sidewalk. Because he was wrapped in a towel to stay warm, he fell all the way over on to his head. I have now made a visit to the First Aid station in an amusement park. It wasn't that bad - no bump, no bleeding - but Sam loves an ice pack like most kids love a band-aid so we had to go to First Aid for that. And answer the questions and fill out the forms. That was the end of the waterpark. Everyone was cold and tired.

We took a little rest and headed back in to the regular park and did finally manage to shake off the gloom and enjoy the rest of our day. We went through the Aquarium, which was small but very well done in my opinion. We weren't really planning on doing but were glad we did. The park cleared out in the afternoon (oddly enough) so we could do the last things we wanted and go home happy.