Six Flags Magic Mountain

Tony and his friend Sal really wanted to go to Six Flags... so on Friday, we made their dream come true. I'm not a big rollercoaster fan; I love theme park rides like the Scrambler or giant swings or water rides, or basically anything that's not a rollercoaster. Traditionally, I've always gone on the rollercoasters though, just because you gotta. This time, in a park that has easily a dozen of them, I just couldn't do that to my stomach.

Instead, I just went on the most horrifying, awful, extreme rollercoaster I've ever seen in my life. (And after that, I felt like I deserved to say "I'm going to wait here with the bags" whenever I eyed up a drop or a loop I didn't like the look of.)

Here is a description of the X-2 rollercoaster from the Six Flags website;

With its 360° rotating seats and head-first, face down drops, X has been one of the most popular thrill rides on the planet.  With the redesign, X2 takes you on a journey to a unique and unchartered dimension of extreme only Six Flags Magic Mountain can deliver. 

Unlike traditional coasters where trains only parallel the track, X2 sends riders screaming around its 3,600-foot maze of steel track aboard massive wing-shaped trains where the seats extend off of the  track to the sides of the vehicle, allowing them to independently rotate you head over heels, forward  and backward creating a one-of-a-kind "don't know what to expect next" sensation.  X2 launches the extreme thrills of X into a new dimension with the addition of a light experience  that changes with every ride.

Did you get all that?? Head-first, face-down drops. Rotating 360 degrees constantly. "Don't know what to expect next" light experience - which was FIRE. 

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Those people are UPSIDE-DOWN. And HEAD-FIRST. Anyway, I'm sure you can see how traumatized I was by that ride. But for some reason, my beloved husband is a nutcase and enjoyed it so much he went on it a second time, and then went on everything else in the park as well.

Despite the bad stories I've heard, I thought Six Flags was really nice. I read that they've cleaned it up a lot in the last few years, and it does show. It was still overrun with teens, but it IS a theme park, so anyone who gets annoyed by teens in a theme park is probably seeking out the wrong environment to have fun. Other than that it was clean, there was security everywhere, and there were plenty of families. I ended up looking after a kid of about ten on one ride when she wanted to go a second time but her unfortunate mother couldn't handle it twice in a row. (Why do I always end up with a kid hanging off me, no matter where I go? Crazy!)

Anyway, we were home by midnight, barefoot and decked out in Superman capes. And now Tony wants me to come up with something for us to do today. I don't think anything will top an amusement park, in his eyes. =D  But I'll try. 


Meanwhile, just in case you still haven't grasped the magnitude of my fear....