Oaks Park!

Today was Phil's company picnic at Oaks Park! I'd never been there before and, of course, neither had Kyra! For those of you who don't know, Oaks Park is a small amusement park in Portland. It's a neat little place! It reminded me of the amusement park in Green Bay I used to go to as a kid sometimes. She couldn't ride most of the rides obviously, but all the ones that we could safely take her on that were "this tall or with an adult" we did. :) She fell asleep on the ferris wheel (so much for a fear of heights being natural and in born), rode the carousel twice and liked it, liked looking around on the train and thought the "Lewis and Clark" adventure ride (it used to be their haunted house so it's in the dark with light up scenes but is pretty tame) was really neat to see. Her favorite though was a ride with fake hot air balloons that were mounted to a center post and went up in the air and then spun around individually as the whole ride turned in a circle. She rode that in her meitai carrier and every time the balloon spun around (and it spun pretty fast with two adults and a baby on one side of the basket) she just squealed laughing! Phil even won one of the raffle prizes! It was also the first time ever that I've been able to take Kyra out of her carrier asleep and put her in the carseat without really waking her up! She was all tuckerd out. :)