Carowinds

Spent the day Friday at Carowinds with Daniel, Jennifer, Ellen, Arianna, and Jen's mom, Kathy, who drove down from Mountain City, TN. Here are a few snaps from the day:

Waiting for a gigantic bucket to fill and dump out thousands of gallons of water:



The dump:



The girls (young and younger):





Raft rides -- great fun!





At the wave pool:





We survived the Log Ride/Plunge/Soaking:



Zapping spooks in the pitch-dark haunted house. (These were literally point-and-shoot since I couldn't see the girls.)





Daddy and girls:



The last water ride of the day. Daniel and I were laughing so hard because we'd struggled all the way down to turn the raft around in the plume as we came down -- unsuccessfully, as it turned out:





You can't see them very well, but Daniel and the girls are in the "bucket" that I keep following with the camera. This (riding backwards and in circles) left Daniel kinda dizzy for the rest of the day. (The girls were fine, of course.) I wouldn't even attempt it -- don't do well going in circles, surprisingly. :-)



And a video to end with of Daniel, Jen, and the girls coming down the plume: (We rode lots more water rides than this one (plus other non-water rides) -- somehow just ended up with more pix of this than the others.) Poor Arianna at the end: "Hey, a little help here!"

A great day -- lots of good fun, sun, and food.