The Brewer Family: Six Flags Over Texas!!

After our fun-filled 4th of July we decided to go to Six Flags Over Texas on July 5! We have never been to Six Flags and were very excited to go on all the rides! We were able to share the fun day with the same awesome people we went boating with the day before (in case I haven't mentioned, we have the best friends)!

We are living in Shreveport, LA and it is roughly a 3 1/2 hour drive into Texas to the Six Flags park. So we drove the 3 1/2 hours there, stayed in the park about 10 hours, then drove the 3 1/2 hours back home. LOL What a long, busy, fun day it was! The kids were wide awake and excited on the drive in to Texas, on the drive home it took roughly 30 minutes for all 4 of them to fall sound asleep. It was beyond HOT while we were at the park, roughly 102 that day (plus the humidity)! I couldn't believe what troopers the kids were! It was so hot, shade was limited in some areas, we did a TON of walking and they did AWESOME!

Shaylie and McKinley were complete ANIMALS when it came to the rides! Both of them went on any ride they could that they were tall enough for! Who knew they were such adrenaline/thrill junkies................I did! We got a glimpse of this at Lagoon when we took them, but their thrill loving has definitely grown since that time. :D Talk about AWESOME! Ever since we took the girls to Lagoon, McKinley has talked about how much she wants to go on the rides "Blast-Off and Re-Entry" (they shoot you straight up/down in the air very quickly). She wasn't quite tall enough for them at Lagoon, so we were hopeful she would be tall enough to go on the Superman ride at Six Flags. Unfortunately she was still to short for the ride (poor kid was not happy about this fact). She was able to go on some other rides with Melinda and Strider while Owen, Andrew, Marc, Shaylie and I went on the Superman ride.

The Superman ride at Six Flags blows the Lagoon "wanna be" rides out of the water! Superman shoots you up into the air 32 1/2 stories!!! Then shoots you back down to the ground. Shaylie desperately wanted to go on this ride since she LOVES the ones at Lagoon, however once we got over to the ride and she could actually see how far it shot you up she was having second thoughts (there were a few tears too). Marc and I knew she wanted to go on the ride so bad, and that she would be mad at herself for not going if she chickened out. Marc and I didn't let her back out of it. We sat on either side of her on the ride and held her hands. There was a LOT of screaming once the ride took off, a few tears (tough chicks cry too), but in the end she was THRILLED she had done it! That ride was NO match for the Brewers! Hopefully next time McKinley will be tall enough to join us!

I didn't take many pictures while we were in the park, we were too busy having fun! Here are some of the pictures I took, enjoy!

Our cute little family after a LONG, fun-filled day in the park!

Thomas!

Mr. Link after going on a couple rides, which he LOVED!

Waiting in line for the Texas Giant, can you tell it was HOT?!

Link on the "mini" Superman ride! He had a blast!

Shaylie, Strider and McKinley........McKinley had to settle for the "mini" version.

Strider and McKinley

Shaylie taking Link on his first ride at the park!

Shaylie after conquering the Superman ride! She really is a SuperGirl!

32 1/2 stories is no match for us! AWESOME ride!

Owen and Strider

Marc, McKinley and I on the top of the Oil Derrick (Shaylie was in the restroom). This takes you higher than the Superman ride! Crazy high, but what an awesome view of Dallas!