Cliffs Amusement Park

For Aurora's birthday, she got the Cliff's tickets she had asked for, and also lots of money to spend. So this weekend we headed down there! We were a little bit crazy because it ended up being the hottest weekend in several years at 105 degrees! Luckily, they have lots of shade there and we got there right when it opened so it was only in the eighties.

This was Alex's first time going. We were a bit nervous about whether or not he would do the rides, because he is pretty timid when it comes to things like that. The awesome thing about Cliffs is that it is a small amusement park and kids 36 inches and taller can ride most of the rides as long as they have an adult with them. And we started out big - with the roller coaster!

Waiting for the roller coaster

When we first started moving, he looked terrified....I told him it was going to be loud and superfast like Rocket and would be fun. I wasn't sure how he liked it throughout the ride...but when we stopped he said he loved it and wanted to go again! I was relieved that he enjoyed it!

Second time on the roller coaster

After that, Daddy and Aurora went to ride some "big kid" rides and Megan and I took Alex to the little kid area. He was so excited to ride a helicopter and car! The helicopter was cool because they could make it go higher or lower by pulling on a lever. Alex had to use both hands and pull as hard as he could to get it to go up!



Both kids also did the bumper cars...I've never seen Alex grin so big! They didn't want to bump into anyone; just drive around and around! Afterwards, he said "Sister drove crazy!"


We let them play a couple of games too and Alex won this cool snake...

And Aurora won the biggest prize on one of the other games!!

We had a great time despite the heat. We love this place! Here are two videos - one of the bumper cars, and one of Josh and Aurora riding the Super Fire Ball - that girl is a dare devil!!!