Massachusetts 2012 - Part 4 (Six Flags)

Hello again! The bad news is that, yes, I obviously didn't upload any new pictures this weekend. The good news, however, is that I have spent the last couple of hours uploading the rest of the Massachusetts vacation photos, and I have created 4 new posts. Rather than deluge you with so many photos all at once, I'll add the remaining three entries every other day so they should all be up by next week.

In current Lucas news, our tiny terror has had some issues at school as of late. A couple of weeks ago, he and 7-8 of his other school chums got in trouble for having their own little fight club during recess. I guess they were all playfighting, but that's a no-no nowadays. (Unlike when I was a kid, and you could come back to class with bruises and the teacher wouldn't lift an eyebrow.) Digression aside, after we talked to him and gave him some random punishment (no videogames for an entire weekend, I think?), he's been doing well. In fact, his teacher even gave him some a couple of stickers yesterday for his good behavior.

However! On the way home yesterday, he got in trouble on the school bus for throwing a rock. It doesn't sound like it was malicious--he mentioned he was throwing it as part of a make believe game of hopscotch--but still, you don't throw a rock on a bus. He seems to get in trouble whenever he is with his friend Ryan, and we've asked that they not be seated together. For whatever reason, the bus driver doesn't seem to exercise her authority as apparently they sit across from each other in the same aisle. We, along with our daycare provider, think she needs to pull her head out of her ass and do a better job separating them, but what can you do if she just doesn't get it? Apparently, he is being written up for this incident and two write ups can mean he won't be able to take the bus anymore. We acknowledge that he is in the wrong this time, but if something happens again, and it's a result of them not being separated, then we\ll likely have words with the driver's supervisor.

That's enough of current news for now. During our last week in Massachusetts, we took a mini-vacation with my dad over to Springfield. On the first day, we visited Six Flags New England. If you have a really good memory, you may remember our previous visit in 2010, which you can see here.

We started off in the kiddie area, and that was probably a good idea. After Lucas rode some of the bigger rides, he didn't think much of the "baby" ones, as you'll see in later pictures. Here, though, you can see he is having a good time.

He also enjoyed the roller coaster, riding it twice: once with me and once with Marilu. For obvious reasons, it's hard to get a good photo of a roller coaster in motion so I cheated a bit and took a video. Marilu and Lucas are in the first car here.



You can see he's starting to get a little tired of this type of ride as he does his best to smile.

Here's a couple more pictures of Lucas on the "baby" rides, but he had a good time since he had company!

One of the themes at Six Flags involves the DC superheroes, and as you can imagine, Lucas was all over that. This is the entrance to that section of the park. Note that Lucas is doing his best hero stance.

Throughout the day, they have different superheroes show up that you can take your picture with. We got lucky and were there when Green Lantern, Robin, and Batman made appearances. Robin is Lucas's favorite superhero (for some reason), and he was besides himself when Robin talked to him and took the picture. I don't think I've ever seen his smile as big as it was for those few moments.

Lucas and I try out one of the "adult" rides, the teacups. If you look back at our 2010 adventure, we tried them out then as well. Although I don't have a picture from it, we also went on a mid-size roller coaster, which is probably the most adult ride Lucas has been on. He really liked that one. Unfortunately, the height restrictions on the other roller coasters were still too much for him to try them out,

Not quite as good as Robin, but Lucas still liked meeting Scooby and Scrappy-Doo.

I think this was the last ride Lucas went on. After going on the teacups, the Scrambler, and the aforementioned roller coaster, this slow kiddie ride was not very exciting as you can see by his body language.

In fact, he rated it a thumbs down!

Pictures from the zoo in the next installment!