A 150ft. drop for Mother's Day!

It was quite a Mother's Day for me this year! My son planted and even started to grow a mini-rose plant for me, and my daughter, in Sunday School, insisted on making all her "handprint flowers" green, against the teacher's advice to make them more colorful, because she knows green is my favorite color. And at dinner, she saved the last bite of her pickle for me. My kids love me. In spite of me. Another reason to thank God each morning.
So... Six Flags had a special "bring a friend free" Mother's Day thing going today, but for some reason, all our kids' friends' families thought spending Mother's Day in drizzly 50 degree weather outside for six hours wouldn't be fun, so no one took us up on our offer. Too bad, poo poo on you. Cause we had a BLAST! We bundled up in layers, took our gloves and mittens (I even wore my earmuffs. So I looked like a dork. My ears were toasty) and literally walked right onto every ride we wanted. I think Katie and I waited for maybe four or five minutes to ride THE BOSS, that was the only ride with a wait.
While we were on the Boss, we saw the new Superman Tower of Power (a straight drop of 230 feet, I believe) operating, and Katie begged to go on it. My girl is crazy. So we found Dad and Olie (Olie doesn't like the fast and high rides) and went to see Katie and Daddy fall to their near deaths. BUT, it wasn't really open. They had only been doing test rides for the official opening this Friday. Katie was crushed, but then she and Dad rode the screaming eagle and we did the bumper cars (Olie and I slammed them so many times, Brad is walking bent over.) And then we went out for a Mom's dinner at Ozzie's. Olie was hoping Ozzie Smith would really be there, but I think he only came when his son Nikko was on American Idol. Still, Olie was impressed with the stories and pictures of Oz's backflips.
It was a GREAT Mother's Day. The best thing: both my kids still wanting to hold my hand walking through the park. Sigh. Big, big SIGH.
Here's a pic of Olie and Bugs Bunny riding the Tazmanian Twister.