Amusement Park

On Roob's birthday we took Jase to his first amusement park. It was on a Friday and we thought it wouldn't be as busy that day. Pshaw! It was RIDICULOUSLY busy. We had to wait in line for at least 30 minutes even for the kiddie rides! Here's a cute close-up of Jase waiting patiently...
Here's his first ride. A cute little whale. I thought he might panic as I walked away, but he didn't. I think he was just in shock. Maybe he actually liked it. I think he did.
We met up with our friends Chris & Kami. That's their boy, Kaden, in the backseat. He is about 9 months older than Jase and does really well on the rides. I think Jase rode 3 rides before he had his meltdown. It was inevitable. Crowds. Lines. Heat. Rides. Missed nap. Yep, inevitable.
Here he is on the cars...he really liked the steering wheel feature. There's Kaden on his left for moral support :) We waited forever for this ride and it was over so fast! Whatever!
It was sometime after this ride that Roob tried putting him on the kiddie boat ride. That is when he lost it. Roob had to get out of the fenced area so the park worker was fiddling around with him trying to buckle him in, etc. My best guess is that Jase just panicked thinking he was being abandoned by us. Awww. But boy, did he freak out. Yes he did. We tried consoling him but nothing was working. Finally Roob got him a slurpee. That did it. But we knew he was done riding rides by himself. After a bit we took him on a train that takes you on a ride around the park. Everyone could ride together on that one. After that, Chris talked me into riding a scary roller coaster before we left. It was fun! It had the longest vertical drop I've ever seen! Weeeee! Then we went to dinner at Tepanyaki. It was really fun to hang out as a family all day. I hope Roob had a good birthday, too. I think he did.

Here we are waiting in line, again...