Round, Round

I've mentioned a time or ten that my children are terrible humans who destroyed my ability to handle spinny things. I've never particularly liked spinny things, but after Alexis spinny things became evil. After Mila, they became impossible. If I want to have a migraine and be nauseous and dizzy for three days, they're great. If the goal is to be a responsible member of adult society, though, FORGET IT. No spinning for me.

No, really. I can't even watching these two go around on this thing without getting sick.

Which is great because Mila and Alexis would both like to spin all day every day. It's as if they took all of my spinny tolerance genetics with them when they were born.

The good news is that they have each other. Alexis can easily act as Mila's "adult" when it comes to spinny rides.

The bad news is that sometimes Mila wants to hang out with me. I mean, it's great that she still likes me and everything, but ... let's not spin together.

Guess who conned me into going on that ride in the photo with her. She did it with a smile and pleading eyes, so I had no choice but to go along with her cuteness. And the whole time we were on the ride, she was so happy. She even said so. Literally. "I'm so happy," are my most favorite words to hear out of Miss Mila's mouth.

The really good news is that because Mila was so busy telling me how happy she was, I don't think she noticed that I kept muttering, "This is stupid. I hate this. This is stupid. WTF? OMG, this is stupid." I was a broken record complaining on repeat.

Still.

It's been days and I'm still a little dizzy.

Kids ruin everything, you guys.

Perk of the Big Age Gap - I Always Have Someone to Push the Stroller

Do You Want to Ride a Rollercoaster?

Despite the fact that the place has a LOT of opportunity for improvement, I gave in and bought season passes for Kennywood again this year. In case you missed the 135891375 times I mentioned it, season passes are half price for Black Friday and it's REAL hard to ignore that. If we go twice we'll have won on the deal, but with season passes it becomes easy to stop by for a few hours here and there, so we'll go a lot.

I'm going to end up annoyed every time we go. I can already tell. There have been no improvements when it comes to employee training and having things open and such. I mean, I waited 25 minutes for an order of fries at a stand where there were ELEVEN employees, but only one register open. There were five people gathered around that register, all trying to work together to figure out how to ring up that order for fries. It's early in the season, though. Hopefully things improve fast.

ANYWAY. I should back up. I knew we wouldn't be able to make the first weekend the place was open. It was open for a season passholders only weekend, but that happened to be the weekend of all of the things. That meant I planned to make our first trip this past weekend, the first general public weekend. But then Friday night Mila started getting a fever. She didn't have any other symptoms, just a fever, but still. When morning rolled around and she was still not at 100%, I decided to call it. We would stay home and save our first Kennywood day of the season for another week. I hadn't mentioned to any small children that we were going, so there was no opportunity for disappointment.

OR SO I THOUGHT.

Mila was happily hanging out with her sister when a radio commercial came on. It announced that Kennywood was open and OMG I HAVE NEVER SEEN MILA MOVE SO FAST. She darted down the hall and breathlessly shouted, "MOM, KENNYWOOD IS OPEN! CAN WE GO?"

She was so excited. I couldn't say no.

So we went, although just for a little bit.

Do you want to guess how thrilled Mila was when I made her leave?

It's a good thing we have season passes so we can go back again and again.