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Monday, August 11, 2014

Cassie's Journal - August 11, 2014



We’ve had an amazing, fun day; and our third annual amusement park trip has been another best-ever-so-far kind of event – so far! ;^)

Our house was departure central before dawn this morning; and we have quite a gang with us.  From our family, we have Uncle Adam, Aunt Leanne, Uncle Nick, Aunt Deborah, and their kids.  Uncle Mark and Aunt Grace are staying behind so we have a doctor in town and because Aunt Grace is down to weeks until her lab opens for business and needs the be there.  The Stone, Draper, and Seager families are all on the trip this year too, and in addition to Dillon and Stephanie; we also have teen kid care assistance from Alicia and Erin.  While Kyle’s busy training with his college football team and couldn’t come with Erin, Doug is spending the two days with Alicia, and Jenny spent as much time with her brother, Alicia, and Erin as she did with us today.  Finally, Rebecca was given a little surprise when Claire managed to negotiate two days off for Lucas with his Dad despite how busy they are on the farm right now; so he was able to come with us too.

We played musical vehicles a bit while getting ready to leave, and Michael and I got to do the trip with Rowen and Tim while the twins were with Naomi and Aiden.  It was a bit crazy, but we managed to be on the road on time; and we were at the amusement park shortly after it opened.  There was a sprinkle or three of rain during the trip, so we opted to spend most of our first day here at the water park – though we hit a bunch of rides later in the day; and didn’t end up getting more than a couple of spits of rain that didn’t slow us down at all.

Michael, Tim, Rowen, and I have spent most of our day with Rebecca and Lucas; though we all had family play time too.  We played with the older teens for an hour or so too while Alicia and Erin were getting a break from helping with toddlers and babies; and we spent nearly another hour just playing with Ethan, Ehlana, Naomi, and Aiden on some slides and in the wave pool.  Thrill rides might be more exciting for all of us, but I don’t think that most of the boys in our group would have seriously traded girls in swimsuits and playing in the water on a hot day for the rides – and not just because we’ll be doing that all day tomorrow.

This place is going to have a special place in Rowen’s heart forever thanks to her first kiss with Tim here, and there were more than a few kisses being shared by couples in our group; but I don’t have anything particularly hot to report from any of the junior couples tonight.  Some of us are four to a room, and in our case, Rowen and I have Ehlana and Naomi with us while Michael, Tim, and Lucas have Ethan and Aiden with them.  Roommate swaps are not an option for us!  There aren’t any actual swaps going on with the college-age teen couples; and they’re paired up in rooms this year – including Doug and Alicia.

I guess there isn’t any reason to do a full recap of every splish and splash today; so let’s just do a quick review.  We spent the couple of hours before lunch going on the water slides in various groups; cooled off in the different pools when needed; and had lunch at a pool-side cafe.  We split the afternoon between more water play and the water-feature rides; and then we moved on to the main amusement park to go on some thrill rides before and after a pizza dinner.  Michael and I did some family and kid rides too; but it was the thrill rides that were the coolest – and I really loved getting to do another sky coaster ride.  There’s just something about free-falling that makes that one of my all-time favorite rides; and it’s especially awesome to do that with Michael – and Rowen and Tim; since they love that ride too.

We didn’t all stay until the park closed – one or more of the parents with the youngest kids left for our hotel after dinner and also took care of getting all of us checked in.  The rest of us played on and then met up with them again once we were booted out of the park with the rest of the stragglers leaving the park after trying to hit as many one-more-last-rides as we could.  Rowen and I were kept busy getting our luggage to our room and taking custody of Ehlana and Naomi while the boys did the same with Ethan and Aiden.  We met up with them to go to one of the hotel restaurants for a bedtime snack; and then split up for the rest of the night – though Lucas went to hang out with Rebecca, Jenny, and some of the older teens for a while first.

The twins, Naomi, and Aiden were all tired out by then, though; so we got them ready for bed and off to sleep.  Michael and Rowen switched rooms for a little while so that we could have a little couples-cuddle time, but as I already mentioned; there wasn’t any hot factor going on for us – our junior chaperones made sure of that!  We’re also all ready to get some sleep too so that we’ll be ready for the second-half of our amusement park adventure – and the long drive home after we’re done playing; so I’ll keep the rest of this short.

Rowen and I have been chatting since she got back, and while a recap of our day was at the top of the list; there were a few girl-chat things to discuss too – like when Rowen stopped Tim and kissed him in exactly the same place where he first kissed her last year – even though we had just randomly been there in that spot at the time.  Though we were away from home, we didn’t escape football talk with so many boys along, and while Erin doesn’t plan on trying out for the college cheerleading squad; she did let Jenny talk about the high school squad this year.  You might be surprised to find out that Rowen was actually quite interested in the cheerleading talk – particularly when Erin talked about her own cheerleading career being entirely motivated by wanting to be around Kyle – even before they started dating.

I’m sure that Tim will be happy to find out that Rowen wasn’t interested in Jenny’s primary motivation – meeting boys.

That brings me to a bit of news that I’m tempted to skip reporting.  Let me start by saying that I am sure that Jenny likes Jonathan a lot.  She also has no intention of staying attached to him when they’d only see each other for a few days between now and next summer; which is why she had no problem flirting with boys today – and there were a handful of them interested in her today.  She also had fun talking about the potential for finding her next boyfriend through being a cheerleader and traveling with the team – or with visiting teams for home games.  If Garth was hoping for a reconciliation this year; he’s going to be disappointed; since Jenny made it fairly clear that she didn’t expect to be interested in any of the guys on our team this year.

I should probably amend that to Jenny not being interested in any available guy of suitable age.  There are guys that she’d be willing to consider dating if they weren’t already taken.

My point in including that in this report, though, is mostly to include a different perspective on teen relationships from mine.  Sometimes I can’t relate at all to Jenny about this, but she is practical and honest with the guys.  Yes, she’s already left some broken hearts in her wake, but she also hasn’t met her match either, and just because her choices wouldn’t work for me; she’s happy and I guess that’s all that really matters.

The only other teen news that I’ll mention is about Rebecca and Lucas, and that’s just to report that they are both really enjoying getting to spend two days together.  Since they’re both working a lot and don’t get to hang out together nearly as much as Michael and I can; I’m really happy for them.  As with other farm-town kid couples; it’ll be much easier for them once we’re back at school again – not that I’m trying to rush through the rest of the summer to get there.

Okay, it’s time to wrap this up and get some sleep.  We’ll be spending the day playing on the rides, and while napping during the drive home is an option for some of us; I’m sure that Michael, Tim, Rowen, and I will end up spending most of that time chatting and keeping ourselves entertained.  It’s supposed to be a beautiful, sunny day too; so we should be in for another amazing day.  I’ll let you know how that works out with my next update, but for now, I’m out of here; so, until next time...

...Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the Light!