Snow Day

Well Santa Cruz doesn't actually ever get snow days--it's never snowed here. So there are a lot more creative ways that SCCLC gets an unplanned day off. Earlier in the year it was because most of the country went on strike and this past Tuesday I got a call at 7 am saying we didn't have school because we had blown our transformer and there was no electricity. What actually happened was our neighbor has been bulldozing his land and he hit the power line and broke the power lines leaving the school with no power.

It has been around 100 degrees this entire week and so smoky. Ashes were covering the ground at our Bible study the other night. There is so much smoke in the air after I get home from school I smell like I've been to a bonfire. So given the day off we were invited to go to the water park Aqualand. We had a lot of fun with a group of about 13 of us. It's just a little outside the city and it was totally empty because it just opened for the season and it was a school day. We got some intertubes and floated down the lazy river a lot and went down the slides.
Here is Grant and I floating and racing down the lazy river. We had a lot of fun racing. I wasn't always this far behind :)

It's hard to tell but that is Grant going down the death drop slide. Everyone who went down that slide had welts on their back--I didn't go down that one but I did go down the one right beside it that was still steep but had smaller dips.

The park was empty because everyone else was in school. We had the run of the place.