HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO all the great dads out there in Happy Valley!
I stopped by Story Land in Glen for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the new (and refreshingly cooling!) Moo Lagoon water park on Friday morning. There were plenty of fathers there with their wives and children, enjoying the first day of Story Land’s new attraction, which adds a fourth water element to their array.
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