August 12

On Sunday, we went with a large group from the Sloan Fellows to Six Flags New England. This park is a Six Flags and a water park combined. We arrived at the park at about 12, and it took us 1.5 hours to get parked and in the gate. We grabbed some lunch and took off for the rides. David had a terrific time riding the Marvin Martian space ship ride over and over. He also rode the cars ("No, mommy, its a green truck," says Chooch) and the train about 3 times. We spent most of the day at the water park. Rachel had a great time on the lazy river with Hannah and Lina, Jamie rode several of the slides and Typhoon (a water coaster) with John. Both of the older kids enjoyed the wave pool too. David liked looking at the map best of all. He played in the water a little, but there was too much spraying and splashing for him to enjoy it too much.

After our time in the water park, ate dinner and then made a b-line for Thomas Town. It had three rides and a gift shop - all of which David thoroughly enjoyed. Julie actually called in while we were riding Bertie the Bus. I answered because I thought it was a little kids' ride and would be easy to talk for a second while David was enjoying the ride. Wrong! This thing went around in a circle like a mini ferris wheel, but faster. I had to tell Julie I'd call her later. Rachel and Jamie rode the sky buckets with Tim, and then Rachel joined us in Thomas Town while the big boys went looking for a roller coaster. They rode Catwoman's Whip. They were going for the Superman coaster, but it had already closed down for the night (a park employee told us that the park closed an hour later than it actually did). So, we may have to go back sometime. I'd kind of like to go around Halloween, but we'll see.

After closing time, we got snacks for the ride home and started walking for the car. We walked, and walked, and walked. Tim jokingly said that we had parked in Connecticut. When we left the parking lot, we saw the sign for the state line about 100 yards away.