Part two, The Boardwalk

That night we headed for The Boardwalk. Everything was .75 cents, rides, hot dogs, drinks, churros and cotton candy, it was awesome!

There's just something about the beach that I love...the colors in pictures are always so vivid!

It was so fun to be there with good friends!

Checking the place out

First rides

Carson begged to go on the airplane ride but at first we didn't think that it had seat belts so we had him try to whale ride first. When he did ride on the airplane he and his co-pilot didn't know how to move the airplane up and down so they flew low.

The second ride his co-pilot was a little older and got the plane to ride high. As you can tell he wasn't looking at the camera so she helped him by holding his face, a little aggressive but thanks!

Two was the magic number because he rode all three rides twice. The first time we went on the Merry-go Round the operators took forever to get going so he got a little scared and wanted me to stand next to him so that he could cling to my neck...I got a good leg workout going up and down for the entire ride.

Boardwalk, thanks for the memories, thediscount prices, the food, and for not letting any of the rides break on us because we really appreciated leaving safely. Now if you could only work on the parking outside the park, that would be great.

New Brighton, Day 2 part one

The morning started out with breast-fast, we made chocolate-chip banana pancakes. Andrew, surprise, surprise was always the last one up so the guys made him two ginormous pancakes with the leftover batter that ended up looking like breasts, chocolate nipple included. Andrew five second before the above picture was taken had chocolate all over his teeth...now he just looks like he has no upper lip!

Half the group (the one with older kids) went on a day trip to Roaring Camp a historic Railroad. We were trying to make the 11:00am train and got there at 10:56am...we didn't make it so we killed 1.5 hours checking out the place.

He was shouting, "here duckie"





I was a little disappointed because I had heard that they had a petting zoo, gold panning and other activities for kids but those are available weekends only-totally lame! To kill time we played on bails of hay for an hour!

Trivia question, see those picnic benches in the background well have you ever seen a place that charge $25 to sit at a picnic bench? I would recommend this place if you went on the weekend to get the most of your money.

Watching the train come in

We got to take a tour on a steam engine, apparently one of two in the U.S. her name was Dixianna.

It was nice to be surrounded by nature and to learn fun facts about grandmother and sister trees. We went on an steep incline on the way up and saw leaning trees, a burnt down bridge and a hard-core biker who said, "meet you up top!"

This was the "picture of the day" according to the radio announcer on the train, check out that steam!

Thanks for the ride!