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The family takes a vacation to Six Flags Mountain and Hurricane Harbor
We have a pool in our cul-del-sac at home, but somebody else's pool always seems to be more fun. The boys wasted no time in getting down to the pool and having fun. Here are some scenes from our first day hanging out by the pool. Monday, July 24th - Six Flags
Back at the hotel we cooled off from the heat by staying in the pool. While down at the pool we decided that Tuesday would be too soon to come home so we decided to stay until Wednesday. Tuesday, July 25th- Hang Out DayIt was still so amazingly hot that we decided that even at a water park it would still be too darn hot out to be outside. So instead of Hurricane Harbor, we opted to mostly hang out at the hotel. We leisurely got around that day and got a late breakfast/early lunch before heading off to a theater to catch a movie. That evening after a very relaxing day of just hanging out Casey and I decided that Wednesday would also be too soon to come home so we made arrangements to stay until Thursday.
Wednesday, July 26th - Hurricane HarborAfter a somewhat leisurely start to the day, we were out to Hurricane Harbor where we had a full day of fun. The heat had subsided a little with temperatures only in the low 90s. This was quite descent considering we were at a water park. Here is Casey coming out on one of the curvy water slides at Reptile Ridge. We rode pretty much all of the rides. Since my camera and water are not exactly a good mix, it spent all of the time we were on the rides locked away in a locker. I did go back and take some pictures of the rides to help describe them.
One of the other family rides we did was the Toronado. The Toronado is a six-story funnel that drops the riders from 75 feet in the air, banking back and forth down a 132-foot-long tunnel before dumping your 4-person cloverleaf shaped raft into a pool at the end of the funnel. The picture in the middle above is a paste of five pictures showing the general path of the raft on just one side of the funnel. You slide up the other side of the funnel just as far. We enjoyed this ride so much that we did it three times. We spent a little bit of time at the Forgotten Sea wave pool, which recreates ocean waves in a really big pool. The big difference here in the pool is that there is a wave every couple of seconds which means you can get tossed around pretty darn easily, but it is heck of a lot of fun. On this day there were enough Mexicans in this pool that I thought there might have been a diving for green cards contest going on or something. Will and I opted to do some of the larger slides, one of which was the Venom drop from Black Snake Summit. It is a 300 ft open water slide that is quite a rush. Will showed me the way down. You are going fast enough that at the bottom you actually skip across the water a few time before coming to a stop.
Here is Jake coming down the same tunnel slide. I was able to get a better sequence of shots than I did with Will. We spent the latter bit of the evening until about 7PM hanging out at the pools in Reptile Ridge. Here are some pictures of Casey and boys messing around Here are some artsy-fartsy shots taken at the Castaway Cove. We were pretty wiped from all of the day's fun so we splurged and ordered in room service which the boys thought was pretty darn cool (Even though the food was not all that good). We were zonked at a fairly descent time and got up and around the next morning and made our way back home. We even managed to make it through LA with barely a slowdown. This was an exceptionally good trip that allowed us to get in some good bonding time as a family. We are going to have to start doing more family trips.
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