Day 9

Since we have 6 flags passes this year, the girls didnt need to use their reading passes from school. So why not pass them down to the cousins and get 3 of them in free? This is probably the only time we werent bombarded at the entrance by photographers wanting to take your entrance picture. Figures, its the only time we wanted them too. Too bad, we might have actually bought one this time. Its also the only time we have gone when almost all the rides had mechanical issues or were closed down. Apparently it was too hot for them to function properly. First ride that got stuck was one of our favorites, the Superman rollercoaster. After waiting in line for about a half an hour, we got an up close view of the people getting stuck on their take off. At least they werent upside down. If I had known the whole day would involve these kinds of delays, I would have taken pictures to document it, but you will just have to take my word for it. 

Bumper cars

Hot air balloons

After being up in a hot air ballonn, we needed a cool down, so we headed over to Roaring Rapids. Waited another long while in a line watching empty rafts go down the river and thinking it all looked like it was functioning, so it should be opening soon. 57 empty rafts later, we decided to finally get out of line and try another ride.

The dreaded Busy Bees...Brylees favorite, Zacks most hated. The look on his face says it all.

 Batmobile. Yes, Batman the ride was closed down. 

Sometime after this point, we made it to Cartoon Camp, the kid friendly ride area. We were shocked to find the kid rollercoaster...shut down. Sigh...time for lunch! 

We decided to ride the train back to the front of the park. We waited the entire 15 minutes for it to arrive, at which point the manager picked up the intercom and announced that when the train arrived, there would be a "slight delay" to fix the speaker system. After Willie expressed some frustration from this announcement, he went on to explain to the manager the kind of day we were having. He then provided us with one flash pass for all of us to get directly onto one ride of our choosing, hoping it would make up for some of our lost time waiting in lines of broken down rides. Of course, none of the kid friendly rides have long lines, so we decided to divy them up among us adults and get into 3 bigger rides with no wait. Sweet! well it would have been. Continuing on!

On our trip back to the car for lunch, Erin decided to try her luck at the ladder climbing skill game. You have to understand, we really thought she could do it. She has amazing strength and skill from doing gymnastics! We know better...all those games are definitely rigged. The worker down at the start wasnt helping either when he kept moving the ladder with his foot! Lame!

On our way back from lunch, we decided to try our luck at the rapids again. Eureka! We all got slightly wet.

Back toward Camp Cartoon, we ran into a lady making free balloon animals. It must have been some sort of promotion or a filming for a commercial, because there was a cameraman filming the whole thing. Plus, Six flags never gives away anything for free! So watch for us in future Six Flags commercials! Maybe our luck was starting to change!

Hmmm...spoke too soon! We made it to a couple more rides before the storm moved in. It was expected to be a pretty big one, so Willie took all the kids and headed for the car. Ryan, Madi, Tina and I wanted to get some use out of those flash passes and tried to hit the Raging Bull Roller coaster real quick! We made it through the line, up the stairs, were the next in line to get on...then they closed it down because of lightning. So close! 4 wasted flash passes, a heap of malfunctioning rides, and an eventful drive home in a raging violent rain storm later, we made it home. Atleast we created memories...right? 

Now onto the next adventure!