frontier city

Rich works for a great company. They don't expect him to work long hours, pay him well, don't send him on too many trips, and are very family oriented. Yesterday, for example, they had a "company picnic" at Frontier City. (For those of you from Southern California think a cross between Castle Park and Knott's Berry Farm.) I use the term "company picnic" very loosely because really Express paid for our parking, admission, and lunch. It was a fantastic day!

Our first stop was the log ride. William loved it! Rich thought he'd be scared of the dark tunnels but he wasn't at all.

Next we all went on the carousel. We had the whole thing to ourselves. William is not a fan of going up and down so he rode the stationary lion, while James excitedly rode the horse (it may be the longest that boy has held still in possibly his whole entire life), and Rich sat atop the rooster. I was there too but just standing next to James in case he decided to let go.

William and I took a ride on some 'tornado' ride which William thought was awesome! The faster we spun in circles the more he loved it. He would look up at me with the biggest grin on his face. At the end he didn't want to get off... he was up for another ride. I, on the other hand, was pretty dizzy. On the Ferris Wheel William loved being higher than the trees and James decidedly did not have a good time as proven by the fact that he screamed and squirmed most of the time. It could also have been the fact that I wouldn't let him off of my lap. While stopped at the top William saw a roller coaster and proclaimed, "When we are done I will ride that one. It goes upside-down."

Sadly, he was too short for that roller coaster. Rich did, however, convince the ride operator of another roller coaster to let William on even though he was too short. (Rich told him, "I'll take liability if he gets hurt or dies." The operator told him that he could lose his job... so Rich said, "Well, I work for an employment company. I'll get you a new, better job," and handed the guy his business card. Great huh?) When he got off I asked him if it was fun and he exclaimed "Yeah!" Rich then told me that William didn't cry but was apparently curled in the fetal position the entire ride.

After lunch I took William one last time on the log ride. He was a riot the whole time. He as we went around he covered his mouth and, pretending to be worried, told me, "Oh no! I think we're lost!"

Unfortunately we didn't get a whole lot of pictures. But we did make a whole lot of memories.