Six Flags

Today (Monday 30 August) I had to go up at 5:30 to re park the car so that we didn't have to pay that much and the gates were open so I sneaked out of the parking garage without paying ;) Then I drove around the neighbourhood until it was after 6 and then went back in the garage....hahha we are so smart ;)

Then I went back to bed for an hour but one of the girls were REALLY loud when she was packing her stuff so we were pretty pissed that we couldn't sleep as long as we wanted cause we had a long day a head of us.

We had breakfast and then grabbed all our stuff and checked out from our fine hostel. It has been a great stay for us and I totally recommend it for all future traveler.

First we drove to another lookout where M was when she was here and U was supposed to see the sign better but I don't think we found the right place cause the sign was still far away, but whatever!

The big adventure of today was a visit on the famous amusement park Six Flags at the Magic Mountain. It took us about 40 min to drive there and it just got warmer and warmer outside.

I was so excited when we drove through the gates and we could see the rides. I felt like a little kid again ;)

We parked the car and then went inside. It was HUGE!!! We got a map and then started to go through the park. We started with a roller coaster called "The Revolution" and funny was that this was the parks first roller coaster ;) It was fun..no loops and not that fast but still better than in Sweden ;)

Our next drive was called X2 and I think this was the most popular and the most incredible one. Here we rotated 360 degrees all the time ;) We didn't have anything under our feet and we went backward, forward, up and down...it was a bit scary but also wonderful ;) It really gave us a taste of the American fine art of construction ;)

Since it was almost noon when we arrived, we had lunch after just these two rides and with one of the tickets was a meal included so I stood in line for a long time to get a huge burger. Me and Kadda were joined at the table bye Wile E. Coyote (Gråben) and he took my Fanta ;) But our food didn't look as good as a Roadrunner (Hjulben) so he joined Sylvester (the cat that chases the yellow bird Tweety) trying to win a girls heart at another table ;) So funny!

We continued through the park and went on almost every ride. We went on Batman, The Riddle, Goliat among others. There were also some water rides with a warning that U might get wet....we got soaking wet! Good thing that it was hot so that we could dry off but it was hilarious. On one, Kadda got a couple of waves over her and that was so funny. I was opposite of her and saw the wave rise behind her and then flooded over her ;)

In the late afternoon, when we were done and tired, we went to find a campground where we could stay the night. I had looked up one that was near but we drove and drove and didn't find it, even though we had the GPS. We tried 3 times and then we stopped at a gas station to ask and with the directions we finally found the small road that lead to the campground. It was really late, we were just 30 min from when the gate would close, so there were no one working so we had to check in and pay by ourselves, in the dark! It didn't start so good...I almost drove in to a swamp ;) There was a sign that said: "Might be flooded" so I thought it was OK, but then we realized that it was more than flooded and then we saw the right way ;) Would have been funny if we drove all in and got water all in the car ;)

We had to put up our tent in the dark but we had the lights on on the car and there were people next to us with a fire so it was OK, and we were quick so in 30 minutes we were in the tent saying goodnight. We didn't have any sleeping mattresses, just the sleeping bags, so it was a bit hard but we were so tired and I fell asleep almost immediately.

Today was also Filip's 9th birthday so Happy Birthday to U Filip!!

Miss U all!

Love Sandra