The Pettey Family Site

We've got a case of Poison Ivy here at the Pettey household.  Cassie's got a face full of it at the moment.  Seams that her summer school art class went out to look for plant life to draw and she came back home with her face breaking out from poison ivy.  She went to school the next morning but I put in a call to the doctor.  Since it was on her face they wanted her to come in, which she did that afternoon and got some medication.  There has already been some major improvement although she still itches.  We've been kidding her that she needs to do this on purpose simply because it causes her vitiligo to "color-up" and she ends up with rosy cheeks.

Yesterday, Troy, the younger two and I headed off to Busch Gardens.  We made a wonderful evening of it.  Terry road his first "grown up" roller coaster.  The first one we road was the Loche Ness Monster.  Terry sat with dad and Cassie road with me.  I think Cassie was more concerned about the ride than Terry was.

We stopped by Guest Services and got Terry all set up for the special needs program with the park.  We can now stopped at rides he's able to go on and set him up in the virtual cue so that he doesn't have to wait in line and we can come back after the "designated" wait time and get straight on.  We didn't use it today - the lines weren't too bad, but I can see it being very useful later in the summer when the wait times increase and the temperatures rise.

Cassie and Troy road Apollo's chariot while Terry and I road the Roman Rapids.  We got soaked! Then Terry and I waited on Cassie and Troy and their rides wait time was a bit longer than ours.  Terry ended up napping on me for nearly 45 minutes, while Cassie and Troy did Roman Rapids.  He was waking up about the time they got back.. now we were all wet!

Being wet, we road Escape from Pompeii and then headed over to the Sesame Street area.  Terry enjoyed looking around, but was tired and didn't want to do any more rides.  Busch Gardens is having fireworks every night at 9:30 till late August, so when they started tonight Terry jumped.  I got him up on a seat and stood with him to watch.  I think he enjoyed them, I know I did.

Over all, it was a very nice evening.