Six Flags 2009


Another perfect Six Flags day.  The Sun was out and the park was basically dead.  I don’t know why, but all I know is we got to go on coaster ride after coaster ride (until I almost turned green)

The trip started off a little scary because “Gauantina” (my GPS) took us some bizarre way through horse farms and back roads.  I should have had a little more faith because of course she got us there.

Now  I’ve been waiting for six years for James and Olivia to be tall enough to get on some “real” roller coasters….and sure enough, they were even tall enough for NITRO….yah baby!!  Nitro is one of the best roller coasters I have ever been on and for this to be their first real ride…I was flipping.

James was doing a good job distracting Ryann.
They’re acting all calm and cool, but you just know, deep down, they’re bracing for the unknown torture that awaits them.

BEHOLD……NITRO!!!!!!!

Ryann’s starting to get a little freaked out….

She’s starting to think she’s going to die on this ride….

They LOVE it…..look at James’s face….Ryann’s smiling….and Kim’s wondering how fast she can get back in line.


This is the Batman ride that did me in.  I had just gone on Nitro about three times and then we all ran over to this ride.  I honestly felt like I was going to hurl.

Plotting our next move.

I’m a little mad I didn’t get a better shot.  Pictures like this are only getting harder to get.

Another stuffed animal for your room…..grreeat!


Children of the Corn

Kris and I decided to take a trip to PA to see some friends and get lost in a giant field of corn.  This corn maze is right in the middle of meat and potato lovin’ Pennsylvania Dutch country and is called “The Cherry Crest Adventure Farm”.

Cherry Crest Children of the CornI was waiting for Maliki to greet us at the ticket booth, but it was neither him, nor a person wielding a sickle so I was relieved.

It took us an hour and a half to “almost” find our way out of the maze and we felt like little mice in a laboratory with our reward being some Dutch Country Fudge waiting for us in the courtyard.

Dutch Fudge

(Exhibit A: Yummy Dutch Fudge)

(Exhibit B: Kris Eating Yummy Dutch Fudge)

(Exhibit C: Dean licking the bag where the Yummy Dutch Fudge had been)

lost in Maze

Apparently, this is a map of all the people who who have been swallowed up by the corn maze.  My guess is they have been made into Shoofly Pie.

What we didn’t anticipate was the feverish spell the corn maze had put on Mellisa and Jay. They were clearly the mice with a mission, hell bent on finding all the maze puzzle pieces and claiming the 2009 Maize Masters title (fictional title that they so rightly deserve)

“Can someone just point me in the general vicinity of fudge?”

“can we get some blue puzzle pieces so it looks like we tried?”

That morning Jay and I went for a six mile run so I got to see the Vibram 5 fingers “Barefoot running shoes” in action.

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