First of all – you can’t have the 4th of July go by without taking a picture of someone standing in your corn field. So here is Daryl in ours 🙂 The old saying of knee high by the 4th of July was blown out of the waters again this year! 
And what did we do with the rest of this long weekend? Well you remember that we were in Des Moines and this wasn’t just some coincidence. No sir! We went there specifically to head to the Adventureland Amusement Park. See they opened up a new roller coaster called ‘The Monster’ and it was on our list to do this summer.
So we met up with the kids at our hotel and we were off to meet up with the Monster!
Let me tell you a little bit about it first . Well for starters it goes literally straight up 133 feet in the air 
and then you reach a speed of 65 mph once you hit the bottom! Yea.. can you say FUN!!
It also was voted by CNN as one of the “Best New Roller coasters of 2016”
Well we had our tickets in advance so once we were through the gates the only thing to do was to head over to the ride and get in line. And guess what? The line wasn’t even too bad! Well I just could hardly wait to go on it and soon it was our turn. There are only 4 people on the ride at once and with us four in the front it was going to be great! But I have to admit when you are literally going straight up in the air it makes you think how this whole thing was going to go. But soon you were looking straight down and then BAM! There you go. After that it was just one blur after the other. You would go so fast and then flip up side down and then take a turn and flip again. And man oh man it was fun!! So after the ride they always want to sell you some over priced photo and we always so no. But this time? Well I think it’s so funny – check it out! Can you spot me in the front?? 
After that ride we went on a bunch of other roller coasters and also the ride called the Storm Chaser. If you look in the first photo above the tall yellow ride with swings on it is the Storm Chaser ride. We’ve never been on this ride before and once you are 260 feet up in the air and going 35 mph it seems kind of like a breeze compared to the Monster. So I decided to try to take a picture of the park while spinning around and hopefully not dropping my camera. I really didn’t do too good with the photos, but this one wasn’t too bad. I shows you how many twists and turns the Monster ride actually took you on. 
We had a quick dinner and then we headed over to the rides at the Waterpark and just had the best time. I’ve never been in a water tube that most of it was pitch dark and you have no idea where you’re actually going. And NO I didn’t have my eyes closed …
Finally at the end of the day and before we said our goodbyes to the kids, it was funnel cake time. 
Now you absolutely know that these things are not good for you, but boy they sure taste good don’t they? 
After a long day at the park, we found our car and headed back to the farm to get ready for the work week ahead of us. Hopefully next time we go to this park all the kids can go with us. It was such great time!! 