Six Flags St Louis

Today we went to Six Flags St Louis.  It was raining so we pretty much had Six Flags to ourselves.  We also spent a few wet hours at Hurricane Harbor.  I guess if your playing in the water it doesn't matter if it's raining.  Since we have a season pass, hanging at a amusement park is a pretty cheap way to spend a day.  We ate lunch and dinner in the RV so we actually didn't spend a penny today.  We are now heading toward  Little Rock, AR.

                                    

               Could you imagine wearing that outfit in the rain!

          The alien looks as if he is giving Peyton the evil eye

These People where stuck up there in the rain for over an hour.

St. Louis Science Museum

Today is the last day of the kid's school back home so we decided to celebrate by going on... another fieldtrip!

We didn't want to break our record of not staying in the same place for more than 2 nights so we unplugged from the "metro" St. Louis RV Park and headed out.  Can you believe that our home, the motorhome, has not been parked in the same place for more that 2 nights!  I keep saying this, but "one of these days we are going to have to slow down"...not yet.  We picked up and took a short drive to the St. Louis Science Museum.  This one was good but not spectacular.  (We are becoming museum critics with all our experience.)  There was quite a bit to do for kids which is always top of mind for us.  We got passes to the Discovery Room where the kids played at separate stations, building, creating and exploring.  My favorite was the build your own waterway where I created a river with Class 4 rapids for rubber duckies.  If this were in a Toy Story movie the duckies would have loved it but would be hurting in the morning.

I am proud to say the Hulsebus 5-some successfully built the Gateway Arch replica on the first try.  Other groups attempting this feat were... uuhh ... having more difficuty.


One of the highlights of the day was flying planes over St. Louis using flight simultors (ok... it was just a video game).  "Over" might not be the best word though as we all managed to fly into the downtown buildings.  We did manage to navigate our aircrafts under the Gateway Arch which was the ultimately challenge aside from landing successfully.

    This is a tornado.

It's great having season passes to Six Flags.  "MORE FLAGS... MORE FUN!"  With about an hour and a half 'til closing time we decided to ride a few rides.  Of course the last one we did as a family was the Rapid River where we all got totally drenched.  WM here we come.