A couple weeks ago, Levi and I drove down to Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington, UT to spend the day. As we left, I threw a few towels in the car, just in case we decided to do the Lagoon-A-Beach water park in the afternoon.
We ran around like crazies all day, enjoying the patches of autumn sunshine, eating carnival food, and trying to make sure we hit every ride at least once, especially once we realized it wasn't really hot enough to enjoy the water rides.
By about 5:00 pm, we were exhausted but still having fun.
Then we felt the raindrops. At first it was just a sprinkle. And then a steady drizzle. Levi said "Let's go on one last ride and then we can go, ok? I've never been on this one!" I grudgingly agreed. It did look like a pretty cool ride.
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| Photo credit: Bing Images. If I had taken this picture, there would be half as many people. And they would all be wearing rain ponchos. |
And then . . . it poured.
Levi tried to shield me but we couldn't really tell what direction the rain was coming from. They had to keep stopping the ride between each group, to run tests to make sure it was still safe to run in the rain. So while we had waited in line for only a few minutes ALL day, this line took us 30 minutes to get through. And when we were finally the next in line to get on, we realized that we'd left the windows in the car cracked. Oops!
At long last we got on the ride, and as it got up to speed I thought Surely this is how it feels to be inside a washing machine... I tried hard not to scream, since I was pretty sure that would result in drowning. Levi giggled like a girl and had a blast, so I suppose the whole ordeal was worth it.
As we splashed away towards the gates of the park, we saw that none of the other rides were going anymore and most of the people had already left or were cowering under the eaves of the buildings. We were part of the few crazy enough to still go on an amusement park ride in the middle of a monsoon.
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| This picture is super blurry because A) I was not about to stop moving towards the car, B) because my phone is inside the Ziploc I'd brought, in the event we suddenly decided to go on a water ride, and C) did I mention how hard it was raining? |
It's not easy to run through a parking lot/swimming pool with drenched jeans that weigh 90 lbs, and it's impossible to do so and look even remotely graceful at the same time. SO glad we had brought towels!
Turns out - EVERY ride is a water ride in a downpour. Who knew. :)
