Stephen's parents and his sister came down on Sunday evening. They stayed the night with us and then we all got up early on Monday and went to Six Flags. Talk about fun times!!!! We always come away with such fun memories. These are things the boys are never going to forget....us either for that matter.
We got there early, got sunscreen on, and got inside the park with time to spare. We got to see the dance off competition with Mr Six (talk about funny!), and then finally the park was opened up. We went over to the Wile-e-coyote roller coaster first, for the boys to ride, but there wasn't anyone there working it yet. So we went on over to the Judge Roy Scream. This is all Levi's been able to talk about since last year, when he rode it three times in a row. Well, we got him on it, and then he was DONE. He wanted nothing to do with it the rest of the day. He said it was way to scary, and he didn't remember it being that fast. Guess we should have warmed him up with some other rides first. Oops. So then we went back to the Wile-e-coyote and Seth got to ride his first roller coaster! He was thrilled. After riding it once, he loved it, and we had to do it again. Then they did the teacups, and the swings, and then we went over and Seth did a cloud balloon ride thingy with me (twice). I was surprised because it went a little high, but he loved it.
We then went over to the Crazy Legs (like a side winder) and Papa and Granny rode it, but we couldn't get either of the boys on it. Then Papa, Aunt Michelle, and I rode it. It was fun! The boys still wanted nothing to do with it though.
We were then on our way to do something else, and Stephen found $5 on the ground! Yea!!! I swiped it from him and stuck it in my pocket (since he had all of our other cash). LOL! Then Granny's scooter that we rented started acting weird and not wanting to go. Papa and Levi ran back to the front, and had someone bring her a new one. Her knee is hurt, and if she walks to much it swells up big time. This way she was able to keep up with us (and her grandsons), without hurting herself.
While they were doing that, Stephen told me I could take Seth over to see if he'd do the big swings with me. Of course after watching it once, he said it went to high and wouldn't do it. But the mini mine train was right next to it, so he said he wanted to do that. he loved it! Then he wanted to do the runaway, which again, he loved. When we got off of that, Stephen, Levi, Aunt Michelle, and Papa were all on the Mini mine train. Then they went over and rode the runaway, and of course Levi loved it too. (we couldn't even get them anywhere near these two rides last year. The year before we had taken them on them, and they got scared to death and swore they wouldn't do that again.. LOL!)
We rode a ton of rides after this. Like the Roaring Rapids (seth calls the roaring rabbits! LOL!), and the Antique cars, the Boots, some games, etc. Then we realized it was 3pm and we hadn't even had lunch yet. So we walked out to the park and had a picnic.
We went back in and rode the carousel, we all rode the log ride, then Stephen and Levi rode the "rodeo" (twice), Seth and I were going to ride, but he wasn't tall enough yet. maybe next year. He was really close, and was very disappointed.
We watched a cowboy show, all rode the yosemite sam log ride thingy (twice), rode the indoor roller coaster (which is in total darkness and air conditioned..Love it!), then everyone but me and Levi (he didn't want to ride it) road the Aquaman (aka Splash Water Falls).
After that, I told Stephen I'd really like to ride that Tony Hawks Big Spin. It's something fairly new, and I've never had the chance to ride it before. So the boys stayed with his Mom and Sister, and Papaw went to ride it with us (he doesn't normally like Roller Coasters, so this was a big step for him! I was proud of him!) When it started going up, Stephen and I were facing down. It kinda took me off guard at first. It didn't look real steep from below, but when you are the one going up backwards it sure feels steep! LOL! But wow, talk about FUN!!!! I loved it!!!!! We all had a lot of fun on it.
Then we took the boys around to ride the mine trains again. I can't even count the number of times we rode these things over and over. Basically we'd get off, run around to jump back in line, and would get on the very next round. It was funny. I think papaw said on the last round of the Runaway mine train, we did it 6 times in a row. LOL! I'd lost count between the two.
Then we went and got some dinner, got the boys some "glow" things, and got them each a souvenir from the Justice League gift shop. Seth got a SuperMan necklace, and Levi got a huge magic type hat with super hero signals all over it. We then went to sit, for the Glow in the Park Parade. It was fun to watch the boys, in awe at seeing the looney tunes characters and all of the glow in the dark stuff. We stayed from open to close, and all had a fun filled day!
Seth was worn out, and I carried him out to the car. He didn't make it far, before he was snoring. I think we got home and crawled in bed after 1am. It sure was fun though.
Thank you again for going with us Papaw, Granny, and Aunt Michelle! I hope you had as much fun as we did. :-)
