Six Flags over Texas

Nowadays Six Flags has 24 amusement parks across the USA. Today we went to their first one. When I was a child, I visited this particular Six Flags. The one we went to in San Antonio didn't exist at that time. It was at this Six Flags that my bubble was burst as to my ability with playing games at amusement parks. I didn't realize I wasn't actually winning the prizes at West View Park. When I asked my dad to play a game at Six Flags, he explained that he had paid for our admission to the park, and that only covered the rides. I assured him that I was very good at winning prizes in these games. He replied that I had been given prizes in Pittsburgh because I was related to the owner of the amusement park. Since that day, I've never been tempted to pay money to play a game at an amusement park, ha ha! My kids have never played a game at an amusement park. They've been to six different Six Flags parks. I think their favorite is the one in New Jersey. They've been to a total of 32 different amusement parks so far. I am hoping to take them to Kings Island in Ohio at some point in the future, but other than that I don't have any plans to take them to new amusement parks in the coming years. I'm thinking we will probably only go to Knoebels next year. 

The park opened at 10:30 and closed at 6:00. We were there at the opening but left before it closed. A few of the big rides (including roller coasters) were closed today. The lines in general weren't long, but the kids did make use of their flash passes. Their favorite rides were the New Texas Giant and Mr. Freeze roller coasters. Some of the rides (such as the flume) were much better at the Six Flags we were at two days ago. I rode three rides with the kids, and Paul rode one of them with us. We had *very* little driving time today as we drove for about 20 minutes from the hotel in Dallas to Six Flags and then drove less than 15 minutes total from Six Flags to dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings to Walmart for some more groceries and finally to the Comfort Suites. In contrast, tomorrow will be the day of our trip that involves the most driving time. We'll be spending 4-5 hours in Fort Worth before we drive to Carlsbad, New Mexico. We're stopping for pizza along the way. We will have a little more time in Texas on Saturday afternoon at Guadalupe Mountains National Park.