Novell's Lagoon Day

Novell held their annual "Lagoon Day" for all engineering employees on Jul 23. The kids have been really excited about the prospect of going to Lagoon for a full day on our typical one-a-year pilgrimage to the amusement park.


This was Jace's first time to an amusement park (Third, if you count the time he spent in the womb). He got a kick out of watching everything. He wasn't too sure about the rides though. He never cried, but just had a quiet, panicked look about him when he rode the carousel and other similar rides. He really enjoyed his All-Day-Passport hand stamp that they put on his hand when we arrived. He sucked most of it off his hand, but it remained on his face. Thus, when we would take him on a ride we just had to show them the blue ink all around his mouth :-)



We provided our own lunch which I made myself: Peanut butter and honey sandwiches. Novell provided the dinner later on in the day. The kids hurried to eat as soon as we got there so that they could start getting on the rides.




After eating, we went over some safety drills in case any of them got lost. We tried to get them to remember my cell phone number (only Aylee already knew it) in case they got lost and needed to tell an employee how to get in touch with us at the park. However, after drilling it in their heads, we decided it would be safer to write the phone number on their arms (as is displayed in the picture above). Everyone got to have the phone number on their arms and they thought that was cool!


Aylee and Johnathan found that they were tall enough to ride on any ride by themselves. Amber and I took turns going with them, or sitting by the ride while they went if it was a wet ride or one we didn't feel like going on. Aliece tagged along with John and Aylee a lot, but there were some rides she couldn't qualify for so she spent half the day with Alayna. From the picture above, you can tell that they had fun together (eg. playing in the bathroom) even when they weren't riding on rides.

All the kids did great keeping close and following our safety rules. We all had a great time together. They did so well, in fact, that we let them stay until about 10PM when most of the rides were supposed to be shutting down.

On the way home we saw various firework programs in bountiful and Salt Lake along the freeway - I imagine it was for the 24th of July celebrations. Man, it was a great day!