4th of July Weekend

We had an awesome 4th of July weekend! We started off by going to Valley Fair on Friday with Dan and Mel and Danny. We were going to go to the Taste of MN after that but decided to stay at VF all day instead. It was so much fun, even though the weather was just okay.

The water park was great!

The day at VF was great, but then Dan was accosted by the police in the customer service office. Yea, so he got a call from a very nervous sounding girl from customer service asking him to come to the office. We had all bought season passes, so we assumed it was something about that. Well, we walk into the office, and there's a Shakopee Police officer there for him. The customer service people were accusing Dan of using a stolen credit card to purchase his season pass. Who does that?! The cop asked Dan which card he used, he pulled out the card and handed him the receipt and of course they didn't match! Nice. Anyways, long story short, the cop knew the whole thing was BS, Dan just didn't want to go to jail because we had the river the next day. So they ended up letting him go, because noone could actually figure out what had happened and the best part, the cop asked the manager if they check ID's and he said NO! Haha! Well, the cop called Dan back later and explained that upon further investigation, they discovered that the lady at the desk tried swiping his card, but it wouldn't take, so she manually entered the numbers...incorrectly! So she entered the number of a stolen credit card! So moral of the story here is that VF employees are d-bags, and Dan got a free season pass. Well done Valley Fair!

So anyways, after all the drama, we went home to pack up our stuff for the river. We hit up Perkins then headed out to Somerset.


All ready to go down the Apple River, with squirt guns loaded.

So most of these pics from the river are slightly foggy, but it's okay, because that's how most of the people remember it anyways.

At one of the pit stops, Dan took a bit of a tumble over a very large rock. Now, being that he had his drink in one hand and his super soaker full of shots in the other, he of course couldn't brace himself, so instead he just faceplanted into the river. He laid there for about 30 seconds trying to figure out how he was going go get up without losing any booze. Some guy actually thought he had passed out. Well, then a kind girl grabbed his drink for him and he was able to stand up. Thank goodness for the kindness of strangers.

Yes, we had a boombox on the Apple River. It was awesome! Until it died and we had to chuck it into the woods. Boo!

Playing tippy cup.

Sad Panda! This is what Dan's leg looked like after his fall.

Yea, someone actually brought their dog down the river.

Everyone made it down the river (with a few cuts and bruises, and a little bit of drama). But we all made it nonetheless. We went back to the house to grill out.

Delicious!

We also went to DQ that night because we didn't feel like making s'mores.


On Sunday, we got up, cleaned up the house and then decided it would be an awesome idea to go back to Valley Fair. We hit up Perkins again for a quick lunch, then went back to VF. This time we pretty much just went to the water park. It was such a beautiful day. We actually should have just went back down the Apple River, but we had fun at VF too.


We went on the lazy river like 4 times.






After the lazy river we went on the hurricane falls twice and the second time down, Mel hurt her neck.

Now Mel is the sad panda.

We decided that was enough for that day, so we got some soft serve and left.

Of course, when we got home we had to go get the pictures developed. Luckily, they let us do one-hour. So we just dinked around Target for an hour.

The boys were hungry.

We finished off the weekend with some more grilling at our house, then we watched a movie (Fired Up! Great movie) then we finally had our s'mores we were waiting all weekend to eat.
What a great weekend!