Zaira and I had never attended Gilroy Gardens (aka Bonfante Gardens) Holiday Lights celebration before this year, so decided to take the plunge despite their incredibly high prices for relatively little amusement value. What really put Gilroy Gardens over the top…

Zaira and I headed up to downtown San Jose today to view the Leonardo: 500 Years Into The Future exhibit at The Tech museum. Leonardo DaVinci is my longest standing hero, so I was very excited about taking advantage of this…

While wandering the web I came across a great blog post at Brent’s Online Journal. It seems his family visited Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee earlier this year where he got the awesome picture shown here. That’s him with his…

While visiting the Morgan Hill Downtown Street Fair this morning I suddenly heard Zaira exclaim “It’s Merlin!”. Merlin is the dolphin from Six Flags Discovery Kingdom and had no business being at the Morgan Hill Street Fair.  It turns out that…

I sometimes think that Zaira had more fun at the small, local Family Kingdom Amusement Park in Myrtle Beach than she did at Opening Day of Hard Rock Park, which is why we flew all the way across the country.…

The River Rapids Log Flume at Adventureland Park in Altoona, IA must be one of the oldest operating log rides in America as it was built in 1974, although the on-ride photo system wasn’t installed until 2005. A two-drop flume,…