Knoebels Then & Now

Good Morning! Hope you all are enjoying this fine Sunday. We are having some fantastic spring weather the last few days. I spent some time outside yesterday hanging up laundry and playing a bit with Buddy. Spring allergies keeps me indoors alot, but sometimes I gotta get out and get some fresh air:) Today's challenge over at Lasting Memories is Family Travel Traditions. We had 2 travel traditions growing up but I focused on the one that Dave and I still do now:

Knobels is an amusement park here in PA that is about 2 hours from my house. As a kid, Mom's work would hold a picnic there each year in June. I was 3 almost 4 in these 2 pictures :) I loved the Whip when I was a kid and this is the one made for the younger set and I was lucky to have a brother that would tag along with me on the rides too he was 9. Now I like the Scenic Skyway ride, even though I'm afraid of heights I get on and hold on tight. This particular set of photos comes from our visit to the park on my birthday 2013, we found out they had a cover bridge festival so decided to check it out. Wow the fall foliage was just gorgeous that day and the perfect way to spend a birthday.
I used the sketch #13 from the sketchathon challenge over at My Scraps and More.

This fun sketch took me less than an hour to put together this layout. I used October Afternoon Midway collection that has been in and out of my counterfeit kits many times, now it just sits by my desk handy for these kinds of layouts :) I used alphas from my current kit for the layout.

 My brother Steve and I enjoying the Whip ride. Era: 1966. The thicker & sign was a match to the color blue of the ride cars

Dave and I enjoying the ride Era: 2013 and a picture of what we seen from our view, perfect way to see the whole park from this view.

 One of the entrances to the park, super cute photo op too :)

The journaling spot, all the doo dads and that fun border strip came from the OA Midway collection too. This just came together so well, I guess having a kit available has it's advantages (no matter if it's premade or made from your stash) for some fast scrappin.
Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you join us this week over at Lasting Memories. This is the last week of the challenges so make sure you get them n quickly to play along. This month there is the fun prize of those 3 die cuts being given away.