We got to go to Lagoon!! Deseret Book has discount tickets to Lagoon with a purchase, so we bought something that I wanted anyway (Willow Tree Promise sculpture). Then we headed out to Lagoon.

Side note: I wanted to look good for pictures so I straightened my hair. I figured we would get at least a few good pictures in before we got really wet. Well, we were on the south side of the park and I wanted to get all the rides done on that side of the park before we went to the other side. Well, one of the rides is called Cliffhanger. Jared and I both hadn’t been on it and there was no line at all. So we figured we would go on it.  We saw that you got a little wet but I didn’t think that you would get soaked. WRONG. In the ride water pretty much pours on you. Well, we hadn’t taken a single picture so as you can see from below my hair is already going back to it’s natural wavy.

While we were walking around Jared did one carnival game stand. Most costed at least two dollars, but we found one that only costed 25 cents. It was called Easy Does It. The point of the game is to get a bowling ball over one little hill but it can’t roll back over the hill. Well we got four games for the grand total of $1 and on the fourth and final game JARED WON!!

Well we went really hard core for the first hour or so. But after the Jet Star, Jared wasn’t feeling so hot so we decided to take it easy. We got food, walked around the Pioneer Village and went on the ferris wheel. So, I don’t think ferris wheel are scary in general because of the height. What gets me is that you aren’t even straped in at that height. Well here are some pictures of us in the clouds.

We also went on some hard core rides. My favorite was Wicked. It is a newer ride that you start off getting blasted off and then you go straight up and then straight down. It is really fun. Unfortunately, the third time was not a charm for reasons Jared will explain later on.

Here are a few more pictures.

Overall, we had a lot of fun. I LOVE rollercoasts so it was the perfect little vaction for our family of two.

The iPhone Story

On the very last time we rode Wicked, I decided that I would take an “interactive” video of the ride. I held the camera in video mode the whole ride. It was pretty fun and crazy, not being able to use your hands to hold on or balance. When our train got back into the station, a woman asked us if we had lost anything during the ride. I said I don’t think so, because I was still hanging on to my camera. I then touched my pocket and noticed the my phone was missing. I had asked her where it fell out and she said “during the corkscrew.” Well… here’s a picture of the corkscrew and how high up it is.

Yeah, it’s not close to the ground. One of the employees told me to wait about 25 minutes until 7 PM when they do a coaster test and go out and pick up stuff that people have dropped. Well, for 25 minutes, I’m fearing the worst. I’m thinking AT LEAST I’ll have to try and replace the glass screen that cracked. Then it’s possible the case is cracked and I may just have to get a new phone. Anyway, they picked it up, handed it to me, and here’s what it looked like.

As you can see, the screen wasn’t cracked. There is a white mark on the back of the phone where it hit the rocks below. But fortunately, that was only the Invisible Shield that got damaged. On our way home, we stopped by South Towne Mall and got a new invisible shield. When I took it off, the phone underneath was unscratched. I got WAY TOO lucky to have my phone survive a 50 foot drop going about 40 mph and it landing on rocks.