Trip to Six Flags

Last Wednesday, we took our trip to Six Flags over Georgia. The girls participate in a reading program during the school year that rewards them free tickets to Six Flags. Since we live right over from Georgia, the Atlanta location is our spot. So, back in May, the girls and I received our free tickets. The only thing that sucked was that Cayce didn't get a ticket. So all throughout the month of June, I used Ibotta and got enough money from rebates to purchase his ticket and a parking pass. It was over 80 bucks.

That morning we hit the road and made the 4 hour drive into Atlanta. We of course, stopped at the first rest stop to let the kids eat some more breakfast and to use restrooms and play some Pokemon GO. We also had a little photo shoot before we left. The pictures are hella cute.

haha.. one of the many that were around that rest stop

We got back on the road after about a 30 minute stop, and beat the lunch traffic. We did get into some traffic at the Atlanta Airport exit, but that is to be expected. We ended up getting to Six Flags a little after 12 and we immediately started sweltering. It was hot. The rides were long, and we did a good bit of walking before riding our first ride. The ride was a Harley Quinn Spinner. Cayce rode that with Samantha and Ariana.

We didn't take that many pictures inside the park. After we left the Harley Quinn ride, we headed straight for the water park and that was a long walk. We kept stopping and reading the map. We eventually made it to the water park and found some empty seats. We immediately stripped the girls down to their bathing suits and headed to the water. I didn't wear my suit under my clothing, so I sat right down in the water in my shorts and shirt and it was heavenly. The area where we were playing at was called the Calypso Bay Wave Pool. It made some awesome and intense waves. Cayce then took Samantha on a big water slide.. that I am still surprised that she was able to get on. That water slide was called the Tsunami Surge. She enjoyed that while Addy, Airy and I stayed in the wave pool and beating the heat.

After we left the wave pool after they kicked everyone out for inspection, we went to go ride some more rides. Before we got to the water park, Cayce stopped at their newest roller coaster called the Blue Hawk. Well, when we left the water park soaking weat and still beating the heat, Cayce went and rode it. He came back super excited and took Samantha on it. The Blue Hawk is now Samantha's 1st ever Roller Coaster ride.

sitting on the bench in front of the Blue Hawk waiting for Cayce to get done with his ride

After the ride, we went and tried to get Cayce something to eat because he was starting to get sick and over heated. While he was doing that, the girls and I sat down and watched this little western shenanigans side show and it was hilarious. It brought some laughs and it was a great end to our day. We did have some trouble getting back to the car, because Cayce had to stop to get sick or my blisters were getting blisters, but we made it and got some cold water from our cooler and the girls got their sandwiches and chips for their meal on the way home.

We are definitely planning on going back next year. We are also going to go with one of my best friends who loves an hour away from Six Flags and would have gone with us if she knew we were coming. I was kicking myself in the butt for that. But we had a long drive back home. We spent a good 5 hours in the park and left at rush hour traffic. It wasn't that bad like everyone makes it out to be. It took us 5 hours to get home because we made multiple stops at gas stations for gas and restrooms.

The girls had fun. We all got burnt. We all got some good exercise.

Sullivan's Island Trip

Last week was our spring break and it was OK. It didn't go as expected. We did end up going to Sullivan's Island and visiting Fort Moultrie, which was fun. It was my 4th or 5th time visiting the Fort and the girls first visit. It was my first time actually walking all over the Fort. I didn't really care the last times I went because it was school field trips and I just wanted to goof around with my friends. And also, every time I made a beeline for the beach....lol.

It was the girls and Cayce's first time going over the Ravanel bridge and they loved it. This was my 2nd time going over it, and it wasn't as scary this time. I think this bridge leads to Mount Pleasant. We headed towards Sullivan's Island. We didn't go to Fort Sumter, this trip, that will be another day when we explore Charleston.

When we got to the Fort Moultrie visitor center, we parked an ended up walking along one of the docks on the water. The wind was brutally cold coming off the water.

 We stopped by this little memorial before we started walking on the pier.

We then made our way to go pay to go inside the Fort, and went to the entrance. We did stop by Oceola's memorial.

monument dedicated to the men who died here

standing in front of the Oceola memorial

the entrance to inside the Fort.

I didn't take any pictures inside the fort, I took a video at the beginning. Cayce did take some pictures inside.

The video down below is one I took. We go into a few of the rooms inside and some rooms, I don't know what they were because they didn't have signs indicating.

We eventually made it down to the beach, where the wind wasn't as bad as the river.

they loved walking along the beach

Everytime we go to a beach, we have to take pics together

We then walked around to where all the canons sit and took some funny pictures.

To end our trip to Fort Moultrie, we took more pictures all together.

After we left the Fort, we wanted to go eat. Well, every restaurant was packed because it was lunch time, so we decided to head to the beach. We went to station 23 which is one of the many ways to get to the beach from the road. Well, this station was flooded out and we walked through it. To make a long and angry story short, Cayce lost his keys in one of the flooded puddles and we were now stuck.

We were 2 hours away from our home and spare keys. The doors of the car were locked, and everything inside the car. We had to get our good friend to go to our house and get inside to get our spare car key and drive two hours to come save us. I was so angry and my skin was also getting angry with me because for the rest of the week, I was battling major sunburn.

While Budd was on his rescue mission, we got into the car very loudly and got the alarm off. We then decided to make the most of our time and go back to the beach via station 22 1/2 which was a board walk. I was super pissed about that. We played in the little pond in front of the ocean and then we went into the ocean and it was freezing. By the time we were freezing our toes off, Budd had rescued us and was searching for the car.

We got the key and had to pick up everything that we had all over the ground and put things back and then we left for home. We did finally stop by to get something to eat in Goose Creek. We stopped by Wendy's and I swear it was the best tasting food. Chicken nuggets, sweet tea, small frosty and delicious salty fries. The girls practically inhaled their cheeseburgers and knocked out on the way home.

The rest of spring break was dreadful. I had to send Sammy and Airy to my moms to spend the night on Tuesday and Addy stayed home with me which turned into a clean fest because she decided to get into her diaper bag and play with diaper rash ointment. The rest of the week was spent in agony because the sunburn was awful. We lathered up the after sun lotion and aloe vera. We didn't get what we wanted or needed to do because we were being tortured by our skin. I blame the sunburn on Cayce because we had everything in the car and he lost the keys.

I wonder if the keys have been found yet????

August Barnes & Noble Trip

Back in August, when we were still working on summer reading, Sammy and Airy took a trip to Barnes & Noble. South Carolina doesn't have many Barnes & Nobles. The closest one that was in Columbia closed a year ago, and so they had to go to a farther one up in northeast Columbia, near Fort Jackson. Anyways, they took their summer reading with them and turned in their journals. They got a free book each.

They also walked around and picked out some books to get Addy for Christmas.

Then they picked out books for themselves.

these are the books they got for completing their summer reading

sammy picked out a sofia the first book to get for christmas

Ariana wants to get this spongebob book

winnie the pooh. classic

They picked out a lot more books, that didn't get pictured. Once they were done picking out books that they would like to have, they went exploring and rode an escalator for the first time.

they were hesitant at first, but then they got to liking it

wanting to go down

they didn't really like going down because they felt like they were going to fall forward when they got to the bottom.

When they got done with enjoying their ride up and down the escalator, they went to this race car that was displayed. I have no idea what is was doing there or what the meaning for it was. But the girls loved it.

sitting in the car. I don't know if this was allowed but Cayce did it anyways. 

can barely see sammy.

aity is so tiny in this car

she had to stand on her knees for cayce to get a picture because if she sat down, she wouldn't be in the picture....lol

my girls with the car.

They loved this trip and have been asking to go back before Christmas to get those books, and to go back on the escalator.