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Magic Kingdom (girls only) Part one – planning
While we love taking the little ones on adventures, and we have, sometimes Mom needs some girl time! That’s why Kelley, Kimberlee, and I decided to take a girls only trip to Disneyworld this summer. Note: I don’t earn commission from any links in this post, but I hope they will be helpful to my readers. We dislike crowds, so we tried to choose a week that nobody fewer than a million people would be there. After perusing myriads of crowd calendars, we chose the week BEFORE Star Wars Land opened. Yes – you read that right. We are purposely missing Star Wars. Not that we don’t like Star Wars!…
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Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park
It’s billed as America’s only mountain top theme park – and for a good reason! Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park is located at 7160 feet above sea level. Which may not seem like a big deal, until you are swinging off the edge of a cliff 1300 feet above the Colorado River! Now I admit, I’ve never been skydiving, but swinging off this cliff was one of the most heart-stopping adventures I’ve taken! Here was my daughter’s reaction. Of course she begged to go again the minute we were off the Glenwood Canyon Flyer! The entrance to the park is actually at the bottom of the cliff, where you board a…
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Lagoon Amusement Park (back in the day)
The Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington, Utah that exists today had it’s beginnings on the shores of the Great Salt Lake in 1886, just a couple of miles west of it’s present location. It was called Lake Park Bathing Resort back in the day,