Saturday, May 26, 2012

King's Island

Yesterday was the Friday before Memorial Day weekend.  Seeing that my thirty days annual leave plus twelve federal holidays aren't enough, the US Air Force was nice enough to give me the day off :-)  Ashley took leave, which, in Bode's language, equates to four stay home days.  King's Island is an amusement park just north of Cincinnati.  They are having a military appreciation weekend, which meant I got in free and Ashley and Bode got discounted tickets.

It was a beautiful May-Day--actually, it was probably too hot, but we did get some cloud cover for part of the day.  Here's a cute picture of Bode and Mommy.
What's cute (annoying) is whenever we take a picture of Bode, he then wants to take a picture of us.  Here is his return shot.
Bode would surely point out that I didn't say cheese.  Bode is almost 42 inches tall, so he was able to right some of the rides, but not the big ones.  He's almost at that stage where the little rides might be too little, but he was excited to ride everything he could.  Here he is flying the Red Baron's plane.

Next was a little roller coaster.  He really liked it, and would scream and put his arms up during the big drops.  He then drove the roadster himself and had a grand time, dreaming he was in the Indy 500 (or maybe the Coca Cola 600 if he chooses to do the NASCAR thing).

Bode and I rode the next ride together.  We were strapped in, taken up thousands of feet (writer's license to exaggerate just a bit), and then dropped.  He loved it.  I was glad we hadn't eaten lunch.
We also rode the log ride (didn't get too wet) and some monster ride that spins you around and takes you up and down (when I say we, I mean Ashley and Bode).  We spent a solid five hours at the park.  We took a final set of pictures before we left.
Note I tried to do some photo-shopping on the pictures in an effort to add some color to Ashley's legs.  Teeth-white was the best that I could do :-)  We don't have any major plans for this holiday weekend.  We'll relax as much as we can because come June, we will be in moving-mode.  Pleasant day to all. 

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