Once upon a time “summer” equaled “Seabreeze” for these disciples.  How is it, then, that our family hasn’t been there in a few YEARS and the littlest Butler has no memory of it?

I think it’s a combination of having a pool, having bigger kids getting busier, having the prices more than double from the first year we bought them, and having the big kids get a little TOO familiar with the place.

My work made tickets available for $13 pp for up to six people.  A co-worker helped me secure three additional tickets.   I got the tickets back in June and we proceeded to sit on them foReVEr!

FLCC classes and Toronto weekend made June a poor time to visit.
Costa Rica and VBS and Prince Edward Island wiped out most usable dates in July.
August found work schedules and camping ruling out most days.

So in the waning week of summer we found a day we could visit.  And it was chilly! 
To be fair, summer never showed up this year.  Oh.  It phoned it in a few days, but it never stopped in to stay.  Overnight temps were cool for most of August, and the water at Seabreeze reflected this. 

BRRRRRRR.

We didn’t spend long in the waterpark.  We had some lunch around 12:30 and headed for dry rides.  While once upon a time my big kids would have front row seats for the acrobat shows (we’d watch more than one a day), we only paused on our way through to watch them today.

The big four visited a lot of rides on their own, although I did skulk around admiring them from afar time to time.

Hanny got her first ride on the Jack Rabbit.

I can’t know if it was the cool weather or the lateness in the season that made the crowds small.  In either case, it benefitted us tremendously as we owned the park.

Nan snapped some photos of the big kids. 

And one of the rest of us.

My how we’ve all changed.

We were surprised when at 4:30 P.M. we were pretty much done with all the rides!  They’d done each one multiple times and it didn’t make sense just to stay to order a pizza.  As John had met us there, he took one van to BJs for some frozen pizza and honey BBQ wings, and I took the other van to Walmart to pick out a bunch of ice creams.

Home for dinner and dessert and the official last day of Butler-summerness-fun.

Ok, school year – here we are.