Faith having a great time on the rides......
Dean and Reed all smiles:)
Daddy and Faith in the butterfly sanctuary
Reed in the very back seat by himself!!
Faith meeting Batman and Robin
On Saturday we spent the day at Six Flags Amusement Park, after 2 years of the boys asking us, "when are we going to go?!" It is only a 30 minute (at the most) ride from our house. For some reason I have been avoiding it like the plague. Now I grew up on amusement parks. In fact it was our one vacation we took every year through out my entire childhood. Each summer we would load up the car and take the 5 hour drive or so to spend a week riding every ride unimaginably. We loved it and I have wonderful memories of our times there. I always feel right at home at amusement parks for this reason. So why I have been avoiding them with my own children....I'm not sure. Don't get me wrong......they have been to Disney Parks. In fact they have been to Disneyworld, Disney Paris, and Disneyland. To me Disney is not just an amusement park though, it's, well it's Disney! It's the whole Disney experience.
With living over in Europe my kids have experienced vacations I would have never dreamed of going on a kid. I love that they have had the opportunity to experience real life adventures that are so meaningful. So when we came back to America 2 years ago and moved to California where an amusement park was less than 30 minutes away I always found something better for us to do......Yosemite National Park, Lake Tahoe, San Francisco, Monterey......too many more meaningful things to see.
Well, on Saturday we FINALLY said OK, let's go! The kids were very excited as we woke up that morning and got ready to leave to spend the day at Six Flags! On first arriving I admit the scrooge in me started in right away......."I can't believe what you have to pay to get in here", "Look at how crowded it is" (I can't stand crowds), $8.00 for a piece of pizza! blah, blah, blah! Well, that didn't last too long as I watched the kids having such a great time running from ride to ride with big grins on their faces. Reed loooved anything that would turn upside down and go super fast! Pretty soon he had me running to get in line with him to ride all those rides (I still got it!) Dale does not handle rides too well (he says anything that makes his stomach come up his throat he will not go on) Dean is taking after him, although there were many rides he enjoyed and he was great with Faith taking her on rides she could go on. Faith is fearless when it comes to the rides. She laughs and grins from ear to ear. By the end of the day we were all hot, tired, and saying what a great time we had! So our day ended with me running over to buy season passes! (I figure if we went one more time this year it was worth to buy them) Maybe it won't be so bad for the kids to experience what I did as a kid after all:)
Oh! Right before we were leaving I played one of their games where you pay the person to guess either your weight or age. If they guess wrong you win a prize. Well I had the person guess my age(no way would I do weight) Secretly I was wishing they would guess I was 10 years younger! ha! but just hoping they wouldn't guess me older than I am. Well, they thought this 40 year old was 34! Pretty good, huh? Maybe that's why I was in such a good mood to go buy those season passes!;)
With living over in Europe my kids have experienced vacations I would have never dreamed of going on a kid. I love that they have had the opportunity to experience real life adventures that are so meaningful. So when we came back to America 2 years ago and moved to California where an amusement park was less than 30 minutes away I always found something better for us to do......Yosemite National Park, Lake Tahoe, San Francisco, Monterey......too many more meaningful things to see.
Well, on Saturday we FINALLY said OK, let's go! The kids were very excited as we woke up that morning and got ready to leave to spend the day at Six Flags! On first arriving I admit the scrooge in me started in right away......."I can't believe what you have to pay to get in here", "Look at how crowded it is" (I can't stand crowds), $8.00 for a piece of pizza! blah, blah, blah! Well, that didn't last too long as I watched the kids having such a great time running from ride to ride with big grins on their faces. Reed loooved anything that would turn upside down and go super fast! Pretty soon he had me running to get in line with him to ride all those rides (I still got it!) Dale does not handle rides too well (he says anything that makes his stomach come up his throat he will not go on) Dean is taking after him, although there were many rides he enjoyed and he was great with Faith taking her on rides she could go on. Faith is fearless when it comes to the rides. She laughs and grins from ear to ear. By the end of the day we were all hot, tired, and saying what a great time we had! So our day ended with me running over to buy season passes! (I figure if we went one more time this year it was worth to buy them) Maybe it won't be so bad for the kids to experience what I did as a kid after all:)
Oh! Right before we were leaving I played one of their games where you pay the person to guess either your weight or age. If they guess wrong you win a prize. Well I had the person guess my age(no way would I do weight) Secretly I was wishing they would guess I was 10 years younger! ha! but just hoping they wouldn't guess me older than I am. Well, they thought this 40 year old was 34! Pretty good, huh? Maybe that's why I was in such a good mood to go buy those season passes!;)
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I have heard that six flags are the best for parks. In Canada we have some parks like that but not as big.. It looks like they all had a blast
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