2nd Anniversary – Part 2
We arrived back at the house at 2am quickly showered and went to bed as we were both barely awake when we finally got home.
By 9am I couldn’t sleep anymore and got the idea that we should go to Six Flags – Elitch Gardens and have some fun. Colleen thought the lines would be too long but I told her school had already started and it wouldn’t be that bad.
We were out the door an hour later and then quickly realized that Six Flags also operates heavily on cash and not Check Card. Parking was $15, and even with that price we had to park ourselves! Ridiculous!
Luckily we bought our tickets online and saved $20 and could skip the ticket booth and walk right on in.
Once inside we instantly headed for the biggest and best rides. We did the roller coaster “Mind Eraser” where your feet dangle as the roller coaster does flips and stuff and boy did that get our breakfast moving! The lines weren’t bad and quickly did Superman where you lay down flat and do a roller coaster (didn’t like that one so much). We did like the one where they put you in the cage and raise you all the way up and then drop you straight down, however the ride is so short!
We completed the roller coaster circuit by heading over for Twister II, but not before doing this Jukebox thing where some 14 year old kid holds your life in his hands as he twirls you around 75 feet in the air on a contraption that doesn’t feel very safe. And the weird noises coming from the arms didn’t help. Finally we did Boomerang, and it did us in. Too many coasters too fast and we were sick to our stomachs and decided to go get lunch.
It turns out the line for Panda Express was the longest line we would wait in all day. Not to mention it was nearly $10 for one persons meal.
After lunch we went around and played the games at Six Flags. I almost won the ladder game, and the circle of imagination game or whatever it is called. We did get tweety hats from the ring toss game, but generally after lunch we just hung out and watched other people.
It’s interesting to see how people behave with their kids. Some buy them everything they want, some buy them nothing, others look like they came as a family but didn’t know where their family were.
All in all I would go again, but they need to do something about the prices. But I heard Elitch Gardens is up for sale, so maybe there is a change in store for our closest theme park.
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Hi there,
Off the topic a little, but noticed your star ratings … I also use them at my site but id like to know how to remove the boxes around the stars and how you got the font to appear different to mine ?? Hope you can help … thanks, Andrew (New Zealand)
I ended up just putting it under the “post” div instead of the “entry” div.
I emailed you the files…
hey thanks, thou I didnt get the files … maybe that email isnt working ?? (Ive just set it up), could you try andy_hemphill@breathe.com … thanks so much
… all the best.
Toid!
2 things:
1. I saw an Amish guy at the auction here in Iowa City that looked EXACTLY like Gugs!! It was CRAZY!!!
2. I’m going to be in Denver (just for the day, unfortunately) for a job interview on Oct 2!!!
@Andrew: I emailed you the latest files to the new address, another possibility is that you have an open quotation mark somewhere (it could even be in your img alt captions) and that causes there to be boxes.
@Shan: Sweet! You’ll have to give me more details as it gets closer so we can meet up!