Last week Tuesday, a group of people skipped work, went to Federal Way, and exposed their pasty flesh to the sun in order to blast their insides Chlorine Clean^(TM) on water rides.

Shannon, Chelsea and I were there when the park first opened, and it was yet quiet enough that we were able to get on nearly all of the waterslides before we were set to meet the second wave of people at the beer garden at noon. On our way in, the bag-checker said he needed to inspect the bag of a girl next to me. He asked her if she’d brought any outside food or drinks, she said no, he touched the bag and heard the crumple of food wrappers, asked her to please remove the food, she said “What food?” and so he opened the bag and found it stuffed with Jack in the Box food. The girl said “Ohh….we aren’t allowed to bring in food?” HAR HAR. She, too, knows the power of ‘oh’ to remedy foot-in-mouth!

At noon, we were joined by Kirsti, Brian, Kyle, Ashley, Tonya, Andy, and the latter two’s children.

This year, we spent all of our time on the waterpark side of things–we could have left to go on rollercoasters, but summer weather this year has been so fleeting and proper swimming temperatures so scarce that it was nice to lounge in the water, bouncing around in the wave pool, or even just hanging out in the hot tub. We hung out almost until the park closed, at which time, I was sunburned (though not as badly as the year before) and MORE than ready to get my glasses out of the locker and be able to see again. It was such a fun day, and I’m so glad that so many awesome people were willing to ditch work and have fun in the sun!

^{I stole Kiki’s picture!}