On Saturday afternoon we left Park City and headed to Provo, where Mike & Brian's company had rented out Seven Peaks Waterpark for a company party.
We had a blast. Going down slides and playing with Annika and Adalyn while Brian and Alisha went down slides. Too bad my camera battery was dead and charging so I didn't get any pictures until dinner. We did have a lot of fun and went on all the adventurous slides. Plus, their company isn't very big, and lots of people had to stay in the kiddie pools because of their children so there were no lines at the slides - which was awesome! We would walk up to a slide and get right on in. SO MUCH FUN! Here is a picture of the wave pool - not too many people when compared to what it could be.
Alisha, Annika, Adalyn and Brian eating dinner.
Notice Adalyn's cute little onsie? Everyone got company t-shirts which looked best on the little kids.
Can you believe that this was the first time Brian ate Dippin Dots? I had to document.
Annika so has him beat in the "try Dippin Dots before your 4" category ;0)
Alisha got Annika and Adalyn dressed before dinner because they were going to play in the bounce houses and then go home for bed. Despite not being in the water, she still had fun with the tubes.
Mike and I heading to the Vortex after dinner.
We had ridden the Vortex before dinner. It was a fun slide, but nothing scary. Well, it was our first ride after dinner and quickly became our last.
You start the Vortex by going down a tube, gaining speed and then coming out into a half circle type bowl. You spin around and around and around until you slow down and then you plop down the center and slide out. The best way for me to describe it is those penny things you find in the mall, where you put a penny in and it goes around and around and around until it finally plops down the center. Well Mike and I were on a double tube, just like we were the first time, we were going down the tube, gaining speed and right at the end, right when we were at full speed, our tube went a little too far up on the side and we capsized. We flipped completely over and since I was in front, I think I took the grunt of it.
I knocked my head on both sides. The next day I found goose-eggs on both sides and I parted my hair to look at them and found red-purple bruises :0(
I scratched my elbow a tiny bit - more than anything it was super bruised and tore up the skin on my hand pretty deep. :0(
After we capsized we slid a little bit on our skins and when I stopped I didn't know what to focus on - my head, my arm, my hand or my knee. I looked down to see that my knee was already swollen and changing colors. I noticed too that although it wasn't bleeding, the pigment had been torn off. So all I could say in all my shock of what happened was, "My tan got torn off!!!!" The lifeguard asked if I needed the EMT and then he made us get back on the raft and finish the ride. It was pretty awful.
This is me after crying a little (just a little) about my knee:
I think Annika had been ready to go home for a while but once I got hurt, she was really ready. She kept saying, "Let's go, let's go. I want to get out of here..." LoL. So as you will notice - she is 'ready to go home' in the family photo.
Alisha & Brian & Family:
Mike & I:
Mike drove me to his house after to make sure I was okay to drive home.
He lives four blocks from Seven Peaks and my knee was swollen by the time we got there.
He ran to the store and got some meds and bandages, then he took care of me. What a great guy huh?
The knee kept getting worse and this is what it looked like the next day.
It has been two weeks, and it's still swollen, though it looks much better. I just want the blood to drain and for it to go back to normal so it isn't as sensitive.
Anyways, my first experience of Seven Peaks - pretty fun. I didn't feel like going back but I think that now, if I had the chance, I would. I am glad Alisha and her family were there - it made it that much more fun! Thanks for the good night to all who were there!
