Don’t ask me why they misspelled Carnival, but they did. It wasn’t my choice, but that’s how they decided to spell it… whatever.

Anyway, this past Saturday it was once again time for the Omniture Summer Party. This year, instead of making us all show off our cubicle ravaged, farmer tanned bodies at the pool, they decided to have a carnival at Thanksgiving Point. There were rides and food and games and clowns and balloons and fireworks and a midway and general carnival fun. We got there a little late so we didn’t get to see everything (Hailey was rather bummed that she didn’t get to play on the big blow-up maze thingy), but we did get to go on a few rides and watch some fireworks.

First the girls went on a fun little cow train ride which consisted of a tractor pulling around a bunch of little “cow” cars. Hailey and Mallory loved it. Next we went on the big spinny tilt-o-whirl thingy. Both the girls figured it would be fun… it wasn’t. Hailey did good on it, but Mallory had a full on freak-out melt-down. She screamed loud enough that the guy running the ride decided to stop the ride and let her off. She was grateful for that. After that we decided to go on a nice slow ferris wheel ride. Unfortunately, the guy running the ferris wheel didn’t think it should be that leisurely of a ride and cranked it up to 11. This resulted in freak-out number 2 for Mallory. However, in her defense, it was quite an exhilarating ride coming over the top at jet fighter speed. Mallory screamed for about the first 30 seconds straight then stuffed her face in my lap and held onto my leg with her Kung Fu death grip. Luckily she survived. I was actually quite surprised that Annie and Jack both managed to keep from crying. Annie would go rigid as a board every time we came down the front and would then look at me once we got to the bottom with a “wow… that was a weird sensation. Let’s not do that again.” sort of look.

Once we were done with the torture chamber rides, we headed over to the stage to watch the band and the fireworks. We had some ice cream and everything turned out swell. Thanks Omniture for another fun summer party.

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