Calaway Park and Color Me Rad!

So on the weekend of June 27 and 28th, I decided to drive up to Calgary Friday morning with all my kids. I entered the Paxman running team for the Color Me Rad race up in the Calgary on Sat, June 28th. We went up a day early so we could go to Calaway Park with Emily and her kids and Trayden, Mikah and Shaylee. They came down for the summer. We love doing things with them. Makes life so much easier!!

We stopped at COP (Calgary Olympic Park) on the way to Calaway. We went and got our race packets for the next day. Then off to Calaway we went!! Everyone was super excited. Our first stop was the famous Egg rides. We could all go on it!


Shaylee, Mary and Brianna riding in an egg together.

Cadence and I rode in an egg together!

We had fun going from ride to ride. DJ was super excited to go on the Carousel, and go on a horse. We had just watched Mary Poppins and that was his favorite park when they raced the horses!! He kept telling his horse to go faster!!

Cadence and DJ driving the boat around!!



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Everyone getting ready for it to go!

Abbi, Shaylee and Trayden on their horses.

Brianna, Mary, Emily and Evan all ready to go!

Cute DJ! He had a blast on his horse!

Trayden and Abbi went on the ride, Chaos! That's when I was so happy that Trayden was with us!! There's no way I would of survived that ride!! Abbi looked a little scared, but after she said she loved it!! Brave girl! We all sat and waited for them to go on it and watched them.

Trayden and Abbi ready to go on the crazy ride!

You can see Trayden and Abbi in the two middle seats. She was looking a little terrified by this point!!

Evan, Brianna and DJ in the cool sign!

Then we split up. Trayden and I took Brianna and Cadence on the roller coaster. We had to wait for quite a while. Then it was our turn. We were able to sit in the very front. Well Abbi and Trayden did and we sat right behind them. It took off, and we went around once. It comes to a short stop and then it goes again. The guy asks everyone if they are OK to go again. Well Brianna kept yelling, "I'm not OK, I'm NOT OK!!" Ha ha, he didn't hear her though. I asked Brianna if she could do it again. She said yes. So away we went. We came back and she was laughing. Such a change from the first time. She kept saying she loved it and would do it again. Of course Abbi loved it, my crazy girl!

Then we met up with the rest and just kept going on all the rides. I loved having the older kids, because I could just watch them go on the strawberry ride or any other twirly ride. So nice! We just let them keep going on rides. Everyone was excited to go on the big swings, but DJ and Evan didn't want to go. So I took the two boys on the truck ride right beside it. They both loved it. DJ went quite a few times on that one!

Riding the fun bouncy cars....even Shaylee liked it!! ha ha!

Cute picture of most of the kids lined up for a ride!

DJ flying the plane! He thought this ride was so fun!

The crazy needle ride!

If you look closely you can see all our kids screaming!!

Everyone else sitting and watching the kids on the needle ride.

Evan and DJ on the truck ride with me.

Cadence and DJ ready to drive their bumper cars.

Then it started to rain. So we went to go wait at the bumper cars. That one had the longest line. But all the kids wanted to do it. The bigger kids went on the bigger ones and I took DJ and Mary and Cadence to the smaller ones. Of course that was a huge hit!

Then we called it a day!! Because it was still raining. We were there all afternoon. We drove to a McDonalds with a play place and had supper there. It was perfect. We had a fun day! Then we went back to Cody and Em's and set up where we were all going to sleep. It was a huge slumber party!!

The next morning we got up and most of the adults got ready for the run. Mom and Dad came the night before and volunteered to stay at the house with the kids. That was a huge help. We got ready and took off for COP. We had to park at a train station and get on a shuttle bus to take us to COP. We were all excited and a little bit nervous.

We met up with Brent, Tiff, David, Jill, Megan, Chris and Keira there. We all got on our cool "Team Pacman" shirts! We had to take some before shots. Then we went over to the stage and did a little zumba to warm up. It was a lot of fun!!

Here we are in our nice clean team shirts. Then front is a picture of Pacman and the back says, "Team Pacman!!

Doing some awesome Zumba dancing before the race!!

Then our heat started at 11am. Away we went. The race was 5kms long. I ended up running it with Cody and Emily. It was a killer to run up the longest hill ever. But then easy going all the way down. But we made it. So much fun. We would run through different colored tunnels all the way through out the race. In those tunnels they would throw color bombs at us. We even got slapped with hands that were covered in paint!

Here comes Shaylee and Brent to the finish line!

Here is Emily and I racing to the end. I was very focused and wasn't looking anywhere!! ha ha!

Cody doing the Superman into the finish!!

Megan, so photogenic, coming into the finish!

The big group at the end. Love how colorful we look!

 

Me posing with the Rad poster!!

All us awesome girls...Emily, Me, Jill, Shaylee and Megan!

A cool selfie on the bus ride back to our cars! What a fun race!

We made it to the end!! Yeah! Then we each got a color bomb that we could throw at each other. It was a blast. So much fun to do with my family! So glad that I did it! Then we had to take some after pictures!! What a blast!