Soak City

What do you usually do before Labor's Weekend arrives? This time, we decided to go out to Soak City after Dylan officially had kept his promise by eating his entire home made sandwich. As we wanted to save our money, we decided to eat our lunch at home before heading for Soak City.

This amusement park offers rides and water slides for the whole family, from lounging around with the kids in the Dick's Beach House to launching yourself down the 62-foot open flume free fall at La Jolla Falls (there are 3 separate flumes here). There are also many rides in-between, all of which will keep you cool and get the adrenalin pumping.

Dylan was tall enough to go on ANY RIDES and wear without life jacket. Ryan only could go to some of the rides that reaches up to 42." Perhaps next year or a year after that, he will be qualified to go on ANY RIDES. But the first thing we wanted to let the boys to go on Balboa Bay where it had waves, so they would be able to get used to with the rough rides. Both of our boys LOVED the waves-- they got excited when they heard the horns that warned us that the waves were heading for them. Ryan was so excited to see the waves crashed while Dylan wanted to be independent by swimming toward six feet deep. In order to prevent from Dylan drowning, he still had to wear his life jacket because he could swim little bit. As for me and David, we just enjoyed being near them in case they needed us.

The next daring ride for all four of us was to go on Coronado Express. This ride has a large rubber boat tube that fit up to four people. We all held ourselves tightly on the handles because going down the hills rapidly. I literally HATE IT because I was facing backward and couldn't see where I was going. Ryan usually likes fast rides, but not this ride. I could see his "scaring" facial expression. Poor Ryan! But Dylan was on the other hand. He just rather SCREAMED as he loved it! Of course, he was getting older and liking more of fast rides.

While settling our fears down, we headed for Dick's Beach House (Kid's Rides) and Sunset Rides. The coolest part was letting the boys feeling safe to go on the rides while we were around. They had fun doing the experiment especially turning the H2O fire hydrants. For a couple of few minutes, the boys, David and I decided to try out for Sunset River. The boys joined riding on a tube while we were walking behind them. The only negative part was the life guard sort of kicking David out just because Dylan did not wear a lifeguard and he is taller than 48;" therefore, he "must" go on a tube. I was able to stay with Ryan because he was under 48" and worn a life jacket. They especially like being inside of the waterfall.

Then we went back to Balboa Waves. Ryan decided to stay while Dylan wanted to try out for other rides: La Palisade Plunge and La Jolla Falls. David could easily see where Dylan was coming from the La Jolla Falls. It was a scary moment for Dylan to go down the steep slope. I must admit he was much braver than me! The next ride he went out for La Palisade Plunge. Know what? Of course, he chose to go in Orange Tunnel over than the three other colors. That is his favorite color. He thought it was a little bit scary because of a dark tunnel and not knowing where he would be heading.

(Dylan was cheering for being brave to go on Palisade Plunge by himself)

Being a gallant little young man got an ice cream treat from his dad. Was he being spoiled? Yet, Dylan had thought about getting a second one for Ryan. Wasn't he being thoughtful? Ryan was so thrilled to get a sweet treat. But after the boys had their small treats from us, they pleaded us to go back for Babloa Bay for a short while. We only allowed them up to fifteen minutes. However, I thought was a perfect four hour ending of a special summer ending event for all four of us!