Six Flags Over Texas

It feels like a pretty long time since I last posted on my blog but you know, life happens, laziness, buziness, nothing-to-write-aboutness and so on.
Last Saturday was an interesting one, we decided to go to Six Flags Over Texas with the Lubwama girls, that was something else. The place gave roller coasters a whole new meaning in my view.

Ok first of all the only roller coasters I had been on were the really mild ones in UG and the ones that we go through in life, (you know how we always say "our lives are like roller coasters") complete understatements I tell you.
The girls had been there several times before so they knew the rides like the back of their palms, Sam, Mich and I were new at this so we only had them as a guide, absolute bad idea.
I knew we were in real trouble when we got onto our first ride and the words of caution were something like this " For safety precaution please keep all parts of your body inside the vehicle" aaaaaaahhhh!!!!, what does that mean? that our body parts are going to be falling all over the place?


I was sitting next to Sam and the entire ride he was quiet, I didn't see him during the ride because my eyes were shut and I was screaming the entire time, he could have fallen out and I wouldn't know. Turns out that it was an 'everyman for himself and God for us all" time, he was gritting his teeth and waiting for everything to be over.
The experience?! well it's hard to explain but how about going through emotions of laughing, crying, fear,shouting, screaming, the sense of loosing balance, falling endlessly all at once, then just when you think it's over you go through the same thing with these emotions interchanged, and all in about a minute and a half. I got off the ride feeling fresh and relieved of all the bad toxins in my body, well, not exactly but you know how they say screaming is healthy once in a while.

For this ride Mich stayed with Jackie who took him on the kiddie rides, I should have known why she was so eager to stay with him while the rest of us went eagerly to "spill our guts".

You know I was actually thinking that one of these roller coaster rides would serve well to solve some court cases. Get the accused on one of those intense rides with a tape recorder attached and by the time they come off, you would have all the facts of the case in question, it's cheaper than hiring a lawyer.

It was all crazy but so much fun, we took a ride that went through the water and we got soaked, Mich certainly loved that one.


Interestingly while some of us closed our eyes for even the milder rides Mich kept his eyes wide open, no fear at all, he only said it was quite fast but that was about all, he was having fun fun fun.
We went in for a 3D Sponge Bob movie and that startled him abit, but nothing else.


Then we had some time to walk around, there is one roller coaster ride that I'm not yet ready for (and may never be in this life time) and that's the Superman Tower of Power, where people rise to the top of this tall escalator and are let down in a hurry.




As we walked around we bumped into one of the little pigs and later Shaggy and Scooby doo, for some reason everyone was shy.



People do some really daring things, like swinging back and forth in the air, in this picture they actually look like a small plane but I'm sure you can tell the difference, you can't? well look a little closer. (Double click the picture)