St Louis--Six Flags

On Saturday of our St. Louis excursion, we headed out to six flags with Mark, Tracey, and kinley, and Mark's brother Mike, sister in law Laura, and their kids Maddie and Jack. Michelle, Mark's sister, also came. We had a blast! And the kids were so good, and so adventurous! I wasn't surprised by Anniston...she's always been a thrill seeker; but even Kinley did good, and she's usually much more reserved. We were very proud of the kids (how they acted and how much they enjoyed the park).

Anniston did every ride she possibly could. There was not a roller coaster for her (she was 2 inches too short). So we'll definitely have to do that next year! Here are several pictures from the day.

Mark, Tracey, and Kinley when we first got to the park:

Anniston and Jerry in the rail car that Anniston drove: Anniston on the carousel: Anniston, Kinley, Maddie, Jack, and Laura on the carousel: A picture of the log ride that we did with Anniston:Anniston and Kinley in an airlplane ride that goes in circles, and the kids can make the plane go up and down:

Anniston, Maddie, Kinley, and Laura on the spinning cup ride (thanks Laura....I don't do well on those kinds of rides...they make me turn a not-so-lovely shade of green):
The kids rode on one of those big ships that swings back and forth. Here's pics of everybody....again, not a ride I can hardly even watch without wanting to gag:



Now here's my kind of ride....CHOO CHOO!!!!!

Now the girls are in some kind of spaceship ride that goes up really high. Anniston actually sat next to a random boy and it was funny watching them because they had quite the conversation before the ride started:

Waiting in line for the swing ride...is this not precious??
Enjoying the swings:

A ride that raises the kids up, then drops them down (I hear they did this about 10 times. . . you'll understand why I don't truly know in a minute) The ferris wheel: We all got to ride this, which was fun:
Doesn't it look like these kids are really on a big adult roller coaster?? This was a fun picture to take!!

So, I told you that I didn't get to watch Anniston ride the one ride. Well, the reason is that Mike (Mark's brother) and I decided to go do the new Superman ride....or should I say "drop". It takes you up 230 feet and then you drop in a matter of about 5 seconds. I'm a wuss on some rides. . . actually just the ones that you spin in circles--which at some parks are the majority of rides. I am a thrill seeker, and this one was awesome. We waited for about 30 minutes, and it was SOOOOO worth it. The crazy part is that once you get to the top, you have no idea when they're going to release your seat (there were 4 seats on each side of the tower). So you are anxiously waiting and trying to look at the view but you really can't enjoy it because you know you're about to drop 230 feet. So you know when you're on a roller coaster and you come up a big hill quickly and lose your stomach for a half second while you go over the hump??? Ok, imagine that for 5 whole seconds. That was the weirdest feeling...your stomach goes up and never comes back down until you reach the bottom. I HIGHLY recommend this ride to any thrill seeker out there. Enjoy the pics!

If you look really close, you can see our feet dangling 230 feet up in the air!! ha
This is us coming to a screeching halt at the end of our ride...We all got ice cream on our way out:

And thank you Aunt Tracey for being pregnant and not being able to ride all of the rides. This worked to our advantage so that we could ride rides with Anniston and Tracey kept Treyson...THANK YOU!!! We'll hold Baby B next year so that you can ride rides with Kinley!!

Here are the girls getting a lift back to the car!