Sunday Funday...

No more OG Sundays : )

     Today was the last Sunday that I will spend at the Olive Garden. One of the many drawbacks of restaurant life is Sundays are a required work day... no overtime, time in half, double time, hammer time... nothing, just a regular mandatory day to spend with your Olive Garden family. For 7 years I have diligently put in my time, but now that my baby will be starting school, my days off need to be his days off. I am not willing to miss any more of his life than school and work are already taking away from us.

     So to celebrate, we spent the evening at Magic Waters. OK, it was really because Fat Dad was having a company picnic there, but I will say it was to celebrate me! It has been in the upper 90's most of the summer here, and of course today it was just a perfect 82 degrees. Unfortunately, this almost felt chilly! We made the best of it, and as usual, we divided and conquered. The boys in our family went one way and the girls went another.

     AL and I started in the lazy river, which is where we would spend most of our time : ) It was perfect! I leaned back in the tube and she rested on top of me. She kicked her feet to "swim" and we talked and sang the whole way!

     JJ on the other hand was in the middle of a full on melt down. He didn't want to go to Magic Waters so he was bound and determined to make sure no one else had a good time either. Fat Dad has a pretty short fuse, so he might have succeeded with him, but I was celebrating and my child for the day was behaving like an angel : )

     Fat Dad and I each took some time to go on the big slides. After all, we are both big kids at heart. He went first, and after his fun time with JJ, he was ready to leave. I hadn't gotten my turn yet so while he got the kids dressed, I went over to the Typhoon Terror. You need at least two people to ride, so I asked a family of three who had just gotten off if they wanted to go again. The dad said he needed a bread, and looked so relieved that someone else would go with his teenage daughters, and the girls were all too happy to go again.

     The video doesn't quite do it justice. The slide itself looks like a giant cement mixer! The thrill rating was definitely a 5, and I left the park feeling young and refreshed. Maybe listening to the girls talk about their "lucky" outfits, and seeing their crushes once school starts had something to do with it. Oh, teenage girls... how I don't miss being one, and how I am not looking forward to having one : )

     Overall, it was a great weekend. I spent most of Saturday making a home office/mudroom out of recycled/repurposed things we already had in the house. Pictures and a post on that coming soon. For the rest of tonight, I am going to bask in the glory of my last Olive Garden Sunday!

     What did you do this weekend??? Do you love waterparks or hate them??? Does  your job make you work on Sunday's???

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