The Amazing Amazon Picnic!

Well, we DID IT!!! We finally finished the last Harry Potter book! We ended up reading the last 200 pages together on Friday and Saturday. Our voices were hoarse by the end but it was worth it. We were able to make guesses and hypothesize with each other what we thought was going to happen. It was really fun to have the opportunity to spend the time together doing that.

On Saturday afternoon, we went to a picnic for all Amazon employees and their families at Mountain Meadows Park. We had a lot of fun there as well. It was definitely kid oriented, but there was plenty to do for the adults as well. Trevor and I played "Cue Golf" which combines pool and miniature golf (see picture below).

There were about ten of these stationed around, you just can't see them in this picture.

A nursery child's (and leader's) dream come true.

This was a train ride they had for kids (they sat inside the cages).

We challenged two guys to foosball and won! They also had bingo, arts and crafts, sack races, concerts, hula hoops, gigantic chess and checker boards, giant basketball (huge basketball and hoop) -- you can kind of see it in the background of this picture,
a rock-climbing wall, frisbee golf, volleyball, small golf course, broomball, and lots of carnival games for kids. They had more stuff, but it's too much name. They also gave everyone a free t-shirt and frisbee. They even had the picnic going for 5 hours. We can't imagine how much money they spent on this event.

I haven't even got to the food yet... there was TONS of it! Hamburgers, hot dogs, corn on the cob, french fries, chicken fajitas, Burbon chicken and rice, BBQ Beef ribs, Gyros, chicken curry, lentil something..., watermelon, pasta salad, cesar salad, strawberry shortcake, popsicles, ice cream sandwiches, and brownies. We tried a lot of stuff, but didn't eat much of any one thing.

Each window in this picture was giving out different types of food.

Nursery was really nice today. Sacrament Meeting went over about 20 minutes so nursery went by super fast. We also only had 10 children today (usually we have about 15 or so) and 6 adults so nobody felt exhausted by the end. Two children even stayed and ate snacks for a good 40 minutes. We kept asking them if they were done and they replied, "no". Then they would continue eating the other kids' leftover snacks. They must have been really hungry! After Trevor and I cleaned up the snack area there was only 10 minutes left! It's so sweet in nursery when kids come bawling when they first get there because they don't want to leave their parents, and then the same kids leave crying because they are having so much fun in nursery! It's also so touching to see them sing primary songs and how reverent they can be when they sing "I am a Child of God".

Here is a picture of one of the cruise ships that dock on the weekends taken from our balcony. This one is the Norwegian Star from Saturday. On Sundays the Norwegian Pearl docks here and Fridays it's the Royal Caribbean.
Trevor was really sad in nursery that the kids kept knocking his blocks down. So he decided to build his own structure when we got home today.