The Mercado Family



Wednesday, June 21, 2017

End-of-the-year Activities

It's been not-stop fun since Austin's birthday party. The Thursday before his party was Gallimore's fun fair. The next Thursday was Red Bell's clap out. (In between those two evening activities were various fun events at school, like a roller skating field trip for Discovery Middle School.)

The shuttle to the fun fair was pretty fun!
Bouncy horse races.


Erik in the human bouncy ball (that's not really the name of it, but I can't think of what it's called!) 

Hours of bouncing!
Karissa's Unicats club at the Fun Fair. They allowed Victoria to be their honorary guest!




My class' clap out.






















The day school got out, on Friday, was a short day. I wanted to finish out my last day at Red Bell to the end, so I had Austin ride home with Dallin. It turns out he was picked up in a limo, in honor of the last day! Karissa went to the park with a group of friends (her Unicats club friends) and Victoria came home with Bethany. After I gathered all my children when I finished at Red Bell, we went to see Cars 3 on our orthodontist Dr. Tiefer, snacks included!!
Waiting for the movie!
 The next day, Victoria and I went on the orchestra end-of-the-year field trip to Cedar Point. It was a great deal, so I signed up to chaperone. Jason doesn't like roller coasters, so I have only been on one in our 18 years of marriage! Victoria was excited to try some. We worked our way into them and she eventually went on one of the more "scary" ones. We might have gone on more of the bigger ones, but we separated from the larger group we were in, who were wanting bigger rides, to accommodate our friend Jing, who looked so scared on the first ride we went on (it was kinda mild) that I knew she was not going to have fun on the bigger rides. I think she and Victoria were on about the same ride level.
Chartered bus ride, not bad!


Cedar Point is on a peninsual in Ohio. It's gorgeous!

The Gatekeeper ride. Victoria saw it first thing and knew she wanted to work her way up to it. That's exactly what she did!

We didn't mean to match...Her legs are almost longer than mine, now!


Their favorite ride, Iron Dragon.




Ocean Motion, the other favorite. Victoria's hands are up in the very back. She actually liked the Gatekeeper more than this, but Jing didn't go on the Gatekeeper, so we can't say it was the group favorite. 
Meanwhile, Karissa went to the local Liberty Fest here in Canton with a friend and a birthday party at Skating Station. The boys went to Jungle Java with Jason and enjoyed the day with him.

Needless to say, father's day was very low-key the next day. We were all recovering from long days! We ate some good food, though, and the Elder's Quroum at church had a special program for the men.




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