What’s worse?

• Driving with three kids an hour to get to Valleyfair?
• Taking three kids in varying age ranges to Valleyfair?
• Paying for a family of five to go to Valleyfair?
• Paying for parking in order to pay for five people to spend the day at Valleyfair?
• Having one child still in diapers while spending a day at Valleyfair?
• Standing in the rain for seven hours while we desperately tried to get our money’s worth at Valleyfair?
• Finding out many of the rides we paid for are not open during the rain?
• Soaking wet and freezing all the way home?
• Seeing the sun come out bright and shining about 15 miles from home?

Despite all of this, we did have a memorable day at Valleyfair. The kids had fun and nobody got hypothermia or extreme chaffing, so all is well.

photo credit: jessicapearsonmn