City Office Picnic

1 August 2012 

The City of Idaho Falls puts on an annual picnic for all employees and their immediate families. They rent out the little amusement park called "Fun Land", close down the zoo so that employees have the whole place to themselves, and cater hamburgers, hot dogs, and all of the fixings. The mayor and councilman all take turns serving everyone and the event lasts 4 hours. This was the first year I had the day off so I put my name down for food and wristbands for Fun Land.
Once Daniel saw the train, that was all he wanted to ride. I convinced him to ride the carousel and the Ferris Wheel, but after every other ride, he wanted to go back and ride the train. Sometime he was the only one on the whole ride.
Scott and I had some fun playing the miniature golf. I did horribly, no surprise there. On one of the wholes I tried so hard to get it into the whole I ended up hitting it through the chain link fence and into the parking lot. That was a little embarrassing to chase down. We let Daniel play, too, and initially he had fun, but towards the end he got bored.
After riding the train "one more time" we headed over for food. By that time most of the food was gone. We ate and then headed over to the zoo to "See the animals!" but the zoo had officially closed. Daniel was really disappointed so we promised we would go see the animals the next day. The next morning he woke up and started saying "Go see the ANIMALS!" and of course we took him.