For starters, the picnic site was across the street from Funderland. Funderland is an amusement park similar to Gilroy Gardens, except instead of an entrance fee you buy tickets for rides. Everyone needs a ticket, even adults. While we were eating lunch, I saw some of the rides. To drop not so subtle hints, I'd excitedly exclaim things like, "Look a train!" or "Mama, I see an airplane!" or "Look, there's the train again!" I was hoping the grown-ups at the table would get the hint and take us over there after lunch.
But when it looked like no one was picking up my hints, us kids (Adrienne and Maddy) headed back to the jumpy house after lunch. Luckily Uncle Clint has great party planning skills. While we were in the jumpy house, he came over to our table and handed out tickets for pony rides and Funderland! It didn't take much convincing to get us out of the jumpy house.
With tickets in hand, we headed toward the pony rides. I've ridden faux horses on the carousel, but I've never been on a real horse before! Mason and I got in line for the pony ride. None of us were sure whether Mason would like it, but we figured we'd let him try it anyway. We each got to pick our ponies. I chose Rocky, and Mason got Candy. Don't we look cute on our ponies?
And guess what? Mason didn't cry at all. He did great! In fact, he liked it so much that he waved bye-bye to his pony after the ride. If you don't believe me, you can see for yourself.
After the pony rides, we went to Funderland. I rode the Red Baron by myself, Crazy Cups with Maddy and dada, and Buggy Ride with dada (instead of the Log Run). I'm not sure if Maddy and I are good ride buddies. She kept saying, "Faster, faster!" while I was saying, "Too fast, too fast!" It's not cool to lose your lunch in front of a chick. I made dada cross his arms so that I could be the driver. I did a great job! No crashing!
Dada took Mason on the world's fastest carousel. Needless to say, he did not like it at all. When we looked over there, he'd either be trying to get off the horse and into dada's arms or frantically signing "All done! All done!" He enjoyed watching the rides and sitting in the Photo-Op car a lot more than he liked riding on them. To top it all off, Uncle Clint rented a cotton candy machine. I got to eat cotton candy for the first time ever! I really liked it, but mama made me share it with her. I suppose I should be happy about that since Mason didn't get to have any.
I had such a great time at the party, that I told mama I wanted to have my next birthday party there. She didn't think that was such a great idea because it's so far away. Oh well, I really hope we get to go back again soon.
Happy Birthday Adrienne! Thanks for inviting us to the best birthday party ever!
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