Tessa's Blog

Let me put some perspective on the Six Flags trip and why it was a great adventure for us. I will need to tell you that I am very cheap these days, I wanted to have some fun with the kids and when I was given these tickets for full entrance to the park for free "thanks Justin" I could not pass them up. My idea was, now that we have four licensed drivers in the Ralph family we could leave Saturday morning at say 2:am and drive all night and get to Six Flags before they open. We would then spend all day getting our brains all jumbled up in our heads and then jump back into the car and drive home and be in our beds around 3:am Sunday. This was crazy and we will not do that again but we did do it. This trip taught me a very good message that I am never going to forget. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

I found out that I am not a sixteen year old boy anymore. I can not go on ride after ride and not have a very strong desire to loose my lunch. I am not afraid to ride any ride, but I now know their is consequences for my actions and most of them are undesirable.

I have learned that I can not deal without at least six hours of sleep a night. It is crazy how your mind sees things when you are without sleep, and how it takes twice as much sleep to catch up on the sleep that you missed.

I also learned that no matter how crazy the idea was or even that you spent all day in the very humid air, or that the rental car was not very safe, or that body odor is not very pleasant on the way home from being out in the heat all day, that time spent with your family is AWSOME! and I cant wait to have another adventure with them again.