Six Flags Kind of Fun!

At the end of June, the girls and I headed south to Nate's brothers for Trey's 4th birthday party. We have a tradition of spending the night and doing something with them in St. Louis on Sunday before heading home. One year was the zoo, 2 years ago was the Magic House and some yummy pizza, last year we had a blast at the City Museum and this year we hit SIX FLAGS! It was a hot one but that worked to our advantage. Sunday seems to be a down day at Six Flags and most of the visitors headed to the water park. The longest we waited for a ride was 10 minutes or less. Al, Drew and I were able to just walk right up to the roller coasters. We had to wait for 1 or 2 runs before we could go but that was it. It was amazing!

Just as we entered the gates the girls were excited to be greeted by these guys Reese, Shelby & Morgan on the kid swings

(they did ride the big swings but they go around too fast for a decent picture)

The gang by the Mystery Machine
The girls spinning

Morgan & Reese flying

The kids with some random boy between Drew & Trey
I love how Morgan has her hands up in the air

Shelby flying with Drew

Morgan spinning with Drew in balloons

More fun together

We had a ton of fun. The biggest challenge of the day it seemed was who was going to ride with who. We did so many other rides that I don't have pictures of because I was riding too. I took Drew, Shelby and Morgan on the Tidal Wave ride. We got pretty wet on that but nothing like we did standing on the bridge afterwards. Morgan did not enjoy that part! She sat out the next time and I did it again with Drew and Shelby. I had just about dried out after riding a bunch of roller coasters with Al and Drew and then the rain came. We got the last ride on The Boss and then they shut it down. We were lucky! Thanks to Jill and Martha for entertaining the rest of the kids so we could ride. This huge storm blew in and it was a mass exodus to the parking lot. It was already getting late and had it not been for the rain we probably would have done a few more rides. The girls and I headed back to Greenville to spend the night. Had we continued home it would have been around midnight when we got there and I would have had to drive through rain the entire way. We slept at Nate's dad and Martha's and the girls got to sew a bit with Martha and play in the basement. And of course, a visit to papa's means rides on the 4 wheeler. PJ's and all!

Big thanks to Papa and Nonny for spoiling us all. We are already talking about going back next year for 2 days and doing the water park as well. Fun family times to look forward to. We met Nate's mom and Allie in town for some lunch and then we headed home. Thanks for the memories Metzger family!