A Day for Play

I discovered yesterday (July 26) that I had never finished writing this post last week after our day at Cedar Point. So here you go, better late than never.

Yesterday (July 18) was my company summer picnic. The Summer Fun team chose Cedar Point, an amusement park founded in 1870. Cedar Point bills itself "America's Roller Coast". I've never seen so many roller coasters in one place in my life. And I—never one to ride a roller coaster—have never seen children the age of Boston and Ridley so into roller coasters. It's a level of fear that I've never embraced, and just cannot believe these babies—BABIES!—wanting to ride every roller coaster in sight.

I'm grateful that they were all willing to humor me and go on the tame rides with Grandma. Really, Boston and Ridley loved the merry-go-round and the kiddy bumper cars just as much as they loved the roller coasters.

Together we rode the merry-go-round, the ferris wheel—which looks out over Lake Erie—and the little-kid sports cars. I had a lovely time just watching them have fun. I didn't see many of my colleagues, but I was only there for my family, anyway.

Ridley thinks maybe she'd like her next birthday party (2010) to be held at Cedar Point. After seeing how much joy they got out of this trip, I think that can be arranged!