Mothers Day at Six Flags (Gerrit) (Archive)

I have a wonderful mother!

In lieu of traditional mother's day activities, she announced several weeks ago that she wanted to go to six flags as a celebration. Rumor had it that the park was practically empty on Mother's day, which made perfect sense! Who else has a mom that cool?

I can't give all the props to my mother though... I've got to give some cool points to Erin's as well. My mom extended the invitation to include Erin as well and her mom agreed to let her not only forsake the traditional mother's day activities, but to spend mother's day far away from her! I was pretty pumped... not that I don't love my family, but it's just nice to have Erin around...

We were a little apprehensive about the weather as we saw varying forecasts all predicting storms and rain, but we loaded up the cars and Philip, Tucker, Erin, and Myself followed My mom and dad in a separate car (not enough room for all of us in one...). Erin had to get up super super early, because we left our house at six and she lives thirty minutes across town in the opposite direction.

After driving there (and seeing some very entertaining police activity on the way), we got to six flags just as it was opening. Despite the protests of Erin, my mom, and philip, Tucker led us first to the newest roller coaster in the park, the aptly named "Goliath". So we hopped on board the 17 story roller coaster with a first drop that accelerates you to speeds upwards of 70 mph to kick off a day of fun.

Though the park was far from empty (we came to find out that since the park had been so deserted the year before there was some ridiculous promo to get more people to come) it really was not over crowded at all. The most we ever waited in line was an hour and a half, but 45 minutes of that was a rain delay. Most of the line waits were about 15 - 20 minutes... which is not bad at all!

All in all it was a great day... and a great mother's day. Mom really enjoyed herself and we all enjoyed having mothers as awesome as ours...