Just Not the Same

Monday is here again which means we went to Seven Peaks with Amie and her kids again (Michelle is at Snowbird this week with Marc's family). We actually got there 5 minutes before they opened today (along with about 30 other people) so we got to stand in line and wait for them to scan our passes.


Amie and I have a (mental) running list of grievances going with this place, so we keep joking about sending them a letter. I don't think they'd care much for our input, but it sure would make things nicer for us if they'd make some changes.


Here are a few of our suggestions.
--Open both parking lots rather than making everyone park at the top and then walk down to where we set up camp for the day. How hard is it to have an employee look at passes in the parking lot and another to scan passes at the 2nd entrance?

--Have ALL the attractions open. This seems like a no brainer, but apparently it's a brainer for them. They spent almost all of last summer (hello, that's the only time they're open) working on a new slide which actually meant closing the Lazy River several times as well...duh.

--This summer they have one of the big, main kiddie pools closed for repairs or something. Fortunately our kids are past this stage, but if we had little kids this would be very disappointing, plus this puts all those people in to the other areas thus making it more crowded.

--DON'T WATER THE GRASS IN THE MORNING! We went to our regular spot today and the sprinklers were on. Good hell, really?! Shouldn't they be watering in the middle of the night? That was just lame. The place we ended up camping-out was wet too. Isn't there enough mud and wet grass going on without starting the day that way?

--How about subscribing to XM radio so we can be commercial free and not have to hear the same songs over and over? We were there for 6.5 hours today and heard the same 5 commercials about 20 times. It was highly obnoxious and sometimes not kid-friendly (there were commercials for stretch marks and breast augmentation, do little kids need to hear this?)

--I'd also like there to be a ban on band-aids at the park. It seems like many people show up wearing them but NOBODY ends up leaving with them...gross.


I'll stop here for now, but really don't these things seem obvious? Back to our day. Because of the sprinkler debacle we had to find a new place to set up for the day. We don't like to change and have been hanging out at the same spot for 3 years now. We were there early enough to have our pick of the place but still didn't end up loving the set up. It was too open so we ended up being surrounded on all sides by people determined to get cozy with us. I actually got sunscreen in my eye from being down wind of somebody's spray kind!


The concept of personal space doesn't seem to exist there. As the day went on and more and more people arrived it seemed to mean any open blade of grass was fair game, even if that blade of grass was touching ours. We had a group camping so close to us today that it felt like we should be offering the lady our snacks and asking for her opinion on our conversation! Good grief.

{How funny is it that our coolers match us?}

Amie and I ended up being cold in the shade of the trees we were under today, that's a first. We weren't even wet and yet still got cold. We moved our chairs into the sun for about a half hour of the time, but then retreated back to the shade and hung out under our towels. It was only in the 70's today and it was breezy so the kids kept coming back to us with goose bumps. It's supposed to be summer right?

I failed to mention (until now) that our day just wasn't the same without the hot guy from last week. I missed him so. Amie did point out a man near us who was laying out on his towel and scrunched up his shorts so as not to get such a low tan line...yikes!

Amie and I did manage to walk over to see the kids on the rope swing (their new favorite so far this year). I'm so delighted that my kids can make it to the edge of the 9 ft deep pool, they're not that strong of swimmers, but improved greatly last summer thanks to a few private lessons.

**Do you have mental grievance lists?
Have you ever actually sent one?
Would you go to the water park
if the high was 76 degrees?
Do you have issues with personal space?**