More Seaside Fun

You may have noticed that I skipped from Sunday to Tuesday on the entries below, and that's because we did a lot of things on our Seaside days repeatedly and I'm too lazy to try to go back and group things by which pictures were taken which days. Partly because we're wearing the same clothes in tons of the pictures. Early on in the trip, the kids discovered these hoodies at a "value" shop and were delighted to spend some of their souvenir money on sweatshirts. It was $9.99 very well spent for them, and they were able to spend the rest of their souvenir money on other things they wanted - which turned out to be a charm bracelet for Dahlia and bonus fudge for Mickey. 

I think Jason would have spent A LOT more time playing this ball-rolling game if he also hadn't had to pay a quarter per round for the kids. He and his brothers are seriously contemplating renting a strip mall space somewhere for this game. They think they'd be able to retire early if they can find enough tourists with money to burn in Salt Lake. And they might be right. It's pretty addicting.

Fudge and an ocean sunset on the promenade.

The water in Seaside is cold - but worth it.

We ate at this bagel place a couple of mornings. One, because their bagels were really yummy. And, two, because Bella thought the bagel man was summer Santa Claus and it was just so cute that we let her keep on believing that.

Bumper cars is another business the Torgerson brothers are looking into. We got a little obsessed with these. The pictures where Jason is trying to video the bumper cars with his GoPro make me laugh. He looked like a moron. But he did get some fun video.

I'm not as young as I used to be, and I couldn't stomach the Tilt-a-Whirl. But the kids loved it.

Arcade fun. Tyson spent most of his life savings trying to beat the high score on this basketball game. He got pretty close until he realized he was shooting at the machine with the highest score and he easily could have beat the high score on any of the other machines. And then he decided it wasn't worth it to keep trying.

This guy in the gray shirt was at the bumper cars every time we were. It got to be quite the family joke, how he must just live at the bumper cars. But he was staying at the same condos as us, and I noticed him in the pool with his grandkids, who were all pretty young. I decided he must have heard us every time we decided to go to the little shops (we're a big group and let's face it, a bit obnoxious) and just followed us there hoping we'd end up at the bumper cars, which we typically did. Because we were a lot more fun at the bumper cars than his young grandkids would have been. I don't blame him for stalking us. I probably would have done the same thing.