Holiday World

Hello blog friends been awhile :) Can you believe summer is almost over?? It's actually been chilly here we have set records for overnight lows crazy. So this past Tuesday/Wednesday the entire family took a trip to Holiday World an amusement/water park in Santa Claus(yes that is the name of the town) Indiana. We had three cars full, I was in a car with my mother for the entire trip down and we both lived to tell about it, my sister, brother in law, and their 3 kids were in another car, and our good friends and their 2 kids were the lead car. It was a 4 hour drive, 1 hour to meet up in Indy, and then 3 more hours from there but well worth it!! The first day we got there just did the amusement park, and it was BLAZING hot, and after a family picture with the Santa statue we headed for our traditional first ride of the day The Raven a fun roller coaster. Our friends daughter, Rachel, had said she was going to do it this trip and she went thru the line(about 15 min wait) actually got in the roller coaster was belted, and lap bar down when she said to her dad I am going to be sick haha. He tried to talk her down saying that it was just a 45 sec ride, but then she started dry heaving so he had to get her off quickly, unfortunately her trip then started in tears. Holiday World has 3 coasters all wooden, and I like the raven because it's mostly hills and I love that sensation of your stomach dropping. We did pretty much every ride there, since I am the only one of the adults who could spin I was in charge of taking the kids on the spinners mostly because there were 5 of them so they needed one more rider to be even. As it got a later a NASTY storm rolled in and we took cover in one of the restaurants, and waited for it to pass took about 40 mins tops. One of the better stories from the first day Dave(our friend) and Luke my brother in law both did the 3 point shoot out where you get 45 secs to shoot 3 racks and Luke went first air balled pretty much all of them and scored 1, Dave followed and set the high score for the day HA! So of course Luke had to go again spending more money, and he finally won a prize with 5 but never did beat Dave's 7. Competitiveness I love it, but not when it costs 5 dollars a pop! After that most the group headed back to the hotel, but my brother in law and I stayed with my 2 nephews who wanted to ride this bad boy, AKA the Voyage(this pic was taken as the storm was rolling in)

It's called an air coaster because you come out of your seat, and yeah that happened more on that later it was great, we hit the other coaster up as well before heading to our hotel to call it a night. Day 2 was the water park during the day and finishing up closing down the amusement side. I am not a huge fan of water parks, but they have some fun slides. Also I just want to note that I probably could have sat and taken pics of uhh inappropriate swimwear and started my own people of walmart site geared towards that. My favorite ride at the water park was mammoth! The world's longest water coaster mostly because I rode with my Sister, our friend Lisa, and brother in law, and well lets just say the language that came out my sister had me laughing she dropped the f bomb, she dropped Mofo, she dropped shit, and then when it finished she told the poor kid working the ride "that is the worst ride ever!" haha I gotta tell ya the worst part of the water park my feet were sore for 2 days after we got home from walking around on the hot pavement. We finished up our night riding roller coasters, with our last ride being Luke, my 2 nephews, and I taking on the Voyage again, and we chose to ride in the very back, remember I said it was an airtime coaster? At one point in time coming down the first hill I was almost standing up I put my hands down REALLY quick, mostly due to the fact that lady just died at Six Flags. Unfortunately after that it was a 4 hour car ride home, arriving back a little after 1am. Great trip, now I am ready to go back to work!! :)

Hodge Podge

Here's your update sorry for the lack of posts :) no that's not the update! Just gonna hit a bunch of topics. So, I am technically on summer vacation now woohoo!! I finished my summer job, of teaching tennis for the city today. I love this job it's so different from coaching, mostly no stress. I don't have to worry about where my 3rd point is going to come from, or take a bad loss home with me. Gotta say it was odd this year for 5 weeks we had beautiful weather, one day I was tempted to wear a jacket to the first class, and then this week happened. Every day this week was 90 or higher with no relief, but I survived go me! Speaking of vacation setting of with family, and friends this coming week for our annual Holiday World trip, and I can't wait. Holiday World is an amusement/water park in Santa Claus IN. It's not your typical park though where other parks gouge everywhere they can Holiday World goes above and beyond to do the opposite, first off with FREE PARKING! However, the big score is free soft drinks, they have these cool Pepsi Oasis Stations where you just walk in and get a free drink can't beat that. Maybe Bekah and Ryan should go sometime since she rides rides now, FAIR FERRIS WHEEL!! Loving summer TV of course my favorite is Big Brother, totally hooked again. This year they introduced the MVP twist, where America votes and someone gets the MVP power and secretly nominates a 3rd person! I am pretty sure due to this twist they came out and played crazy strong in the first two weeks. Both evictions were blind sides which is more than most survivor seasons combined. The house is clearly divided as well, and there has been some bad. You might have seen this online but a few of the houseguests have been caught saying racial slurs. Here's the thing about Big Brother it's unlike any other reality show because they have 24/7 live feeds the viewers can sign up for, and I think the hamsters sometimes forget that. Anyway, Aaryn a young college student, and Gina Marie have really taken the brunt of this as both have been fired from their jobs, and they have no clue for remarks made about Asian Americans, African Americans, and gays. It will be interesting when Aaryn finally gets evicted and is interviewed by Julue Chen the hose who has SLAMMED her in the media. Also watching Under the Dome, let me first say it's really good summer TV. I have read the book I loved it couldn't put it down, so the first episode I actually had to watch twice, because the first time I kept yelling THAT WASN'T IN THE BOOK!?! Lots of differences from book to movie and we're talking BIG differences. I am still watching I have a friend who refuses to watch because it's so different. Anyone else watching? Speaking of books with time on my hands now looking for new authors, any suggestions? I like murder mysteries usually but am open to others. My favorite author is Harlan Coben but I have read all his :( he doesn't write like Patterson spewing them out weekly. I know we have a lot of authors that come here, Bekah(read your book!) Travis, he's trying to get me to read his, Shife patiently waiting for one of his books to be dedicated to me haha, Phoenix waiting for his as well so will gladly take recommendations for summer reading?! That's all have a great rest of the week Big Brother is starting in 25 mins!!

Happy 4th of July

I love this country, everyone have a happy and safe 4th of July