Amusement Park Report: Amusing!

Our adventures to Six Flags were a success!
They might have been even more fun if:
- She had taken a nap at any point in the day
- The website advertising over 20 rides for people under 36" had mentioned that for most of them the little person is required to ride with another child over 36".
- and/or we'd had the forethought to buy some really tiny, but really tall platform shoes for Little One ahead of time.



But! The weather was amazing, the lines for mini-rides were also mini, and there was a playground and a fountain.

And we did find a few friendly older kids willing to pretend they were a sibling. For some of the really crazy rides, like this train that went in a circle at 0.5 MPH. Woo. Hoo.

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There were also some fun ones that She could go on with an adult, so we all had fun together.


And, She rode Her first ever roller coaster! Actually it was pretty fast and furious, relatively speaking. She rode it once, and then said, "No no Mama, that one too big. Little too big. 'Nother time, that one." Those darn Six Flags people and their "safety". They're turning Her soft, I tell you!

Maybe Her threshold for thrills was just a little low that day. Because at the end, when it started to get dark, there was a Halloween "un-scary" area, where Little One got to Trick-or-treat (for chocolate to feed Her unborn sibling.) and then go on a hay ride.
The hay ride was for children only. You load them up in a wagon, wave bye-bye, and watch them roll off into the dry-ice mist and twinkling jack-o-lantern lights. Little One had no qualms. "Bye Mommy!" without even looking at me.

And I got a little of that mist in my eyes. My baby! Getting so grown up! Doesn't even need Her mommy! J and I waited. We got the camera ready for the arrival shot. And....

A round of "Awwwww!" from the waiting parent crowd. A look of panic in the girl sitting next to Her. Apparently, She had put Her arm over the side, and the girl pulled it back in. Stranger danger! Someone touched my arm! Mommy! Daddy! I can't see you in the fog! AHHH!

So maybe She's still my baby, just a little bit.