Amusement Parks and Recreation... No Ron Swanson here though...

So, there's like 600million things I have on my mind at the moment and I'd like to mention and talk about, but it's kind of hard to put everything on a single post, so I will probably do it in chapters.

Let's start with the latest memory then, Sunday at the Amusement Park!

 It really started with a slow Sunday at home, we weren't doing much, today is the Last day of Summer here, and Jr was having a good time up until noon, when out of the blue he says:

"Dad, let's go to the amusement park!"

I was seriously considering it, I mean, last day of summer, an amusement park packed with kids, adults, and god knows how many varieties of airborne cooties!! 

But the day before he'd overheard his mom talking to an aunt and saying that some of the cousins would come over to the park today.

That really didn't pan out.

So, I figured that queues are not really an issue when you don't have another thing to do, and if you're six and can handle it, might as well just wait them out.

So, on we went to the park.

I must say though that this is a bit of my nature, plans are NEVER set in stone; anything can change at the last minute and I am all for surprises.  I learnt the hard way that if plans are REALLY unmovable, life will find a way of messing them up for you; might as well make the best of it.

So AT LUNCH, we went to the park, we found a not so distant parking spot (it was about halfway home and park away) and walked to the door.  There were people ALREADY frustrated at the door, I mean You haven't even gone in and are already fed up?  Jeez.

By the time I paid for our tickets, you'd think we went to Disneyland!  Jr was happy, I mean REALLY happy, smiling side to side, saying "Hi" to everyone, and decided that TODAY was the day he would ride the big rides (No.  Didn't happen).

Seriously people, if you go to the amusement park with a kid, IT IS FOR THE Kids.  Don't give them a hard time, do not make them feel guilty of waiting in line for 30 minutes for a 2 minute ride; I'm pretty certain when YOU were manufacturing kids you didn't complain about the "build up and then short ride".

See the difference on the faces?  Sure one is painted and the other one isn't, but that smile?  SON that smile is worth the 2 hours total of queues we did for the 3 minute rides... 

I took a 6 yr old, and turned him into a smile machine, that people, that's worth ANY wait time I had to go through, and if you disagree, then you're probably not a parent right now ;)