The Last Hurrah...Lakemont

On Friday, August 19th we headed up north a bit to Lakemont, a small amusement park in Altoona, Pennsylvania. This was our last little adventure of the summer before Abby would start school the following week. The best part about this amusement park is the price....for $5 each we got all day "Ride and Slide" passes good for all the rides as well as the water park. Can't beat that!!

Abby's favorite ride of the day were these giant swings. She got to go on it twice, once with me and once with her daddy.

They had about 8-10 different kiddie rides and we hit most of them up. There were hardly any lines so we got to go on a lot of the rides in just a short amount of time!! Here they are trying out their monster truck skills!

Landon also enjoyed shooting "monsters" in the airplane ride (How is it that despite the fact that we have never bought a toy gun for Landon to use, he still manages to make "guns" out of just about every building block set we have. I think it must be in their nature!!)

Landon, Abby and I took a little train ride around the park while Jason and Nolan watched us from afar. (Nolan was a perfect angel the entire day...but that really wasn't any different than any other day. We count our blessings each day that we were blessed with such a great third child!!)

Landon's favorite ride were the bumper cars. We probably rode them about 4-5 times. Abby was excited that next year she will probably be able to go on a lot more rides like the bumper cars all by herself since she was just a few inches shy of the mark this year.

After hitting up the rides for a few hours, we headed over to the arcade to wait out a short thunder and rainstorm. After it all cleared, we spent the rest of the afternoon at the waterpark. The kids were too small to go on any of the slides but they had a super fun pirate pool that they had a great time in. Abby also practiced some of her new swimming skills in the bigger pool nearby.

We had so much fun all day long that we would really like to make this an annual tradition.Thank you Lakemont for providing us a great last day of summer family fun!!