Elitch Gardens.

So today, Saturday, Alex, Mav's family, Monica's friend Tori, and I all went to Elitch Gardens, the family theme park formally known as Six Flags Elitch Gardens.  The day started off pretty well considering that we slept most of the way up to Downtown Denver, the location of Elitch Gardens.  Mav and I attempted to try and keep ourselves busy during the drive there by watching The Descent on their portable DVD player.  What ended up happening was that we both started to fall asleep.  I guess getting very few hours of sleep'll, in the end, benefit you in which you won't have to stay up for hours during drives to far destinations.  So what was supposed to be considered a 2 hour drive can feel like a 5 minute ride because of sleeping.  Great thing huh ??

Anyways when we finally arrived to the theme park, that's when the true fun started to happen.  We arrived at the parking just in time for opening.  Before we actually went in though, we had to solve a little problem before proceeding.  So last night, Mav bought an extra ticket on accident because they already had the right number of ticket beforehand.  After like 2-3 minutes with finding a resale, I found a person who bought the extra for the price we got it for, $24.99.  It was pretty sweet.  Once we got in there, all the young'n's went straight to the Mind Eraser.  It was pretty cool cause all the rides we rode that day, they basically had no lines, so the wait was very little.  Well anyways, what was memorable about this ride was that after riding the ride, the picture of Mitch's face was priceless ... well because you couldn't see it.  While everyone had their usual roller coaster face, Mitch looked like a dead zombie throwing up from alcohol.  Right after that, we went straight to the other rides such as the Boomerang and the Twister II (both of which, Mitch had priceless faces) and also the Tower of Doom (which everyone except me and Alex pussied out) and the Halfpipe.

Well another classic moment that happened today was when we were on the Twister II.  So for the other two rides before we came to this one, the Boomerang and the Mind Eraser, Mav recorded footage while the ride was going on.  Unluckily, Alex decided to record this time and he got warned by the operator there .... three times lol.  Two when we were getting seated for the ride; and one time on the first ramp up the ride.  It was hilarious cause on the way up the ramp, the speaker hanging out beside us as we were passing by up the ramp had a voice scream out, "PUT THE CAMERA AWAY !!" lol.  Well after riding all the roller coasters out there (except the Sidewinder), we all went to find a spot to put our stuff at and go swimming.  The bad thing about it was that it was abnormally cold.  We eventually got used to it, so we then went to a couple of slide before heading out to the car to grab something to eat for lunch.  When we got out to the car, we opened up the truck of the van.  When we opened up the car, the back seats were pulled down to make it seem like it was a picnic table.  Everything was set up; the drinks were cold, utensils were available, the meats were warm and hot, and most importantly, there was rice.

Once we finished eating, we had yet another problem.  So basically visitors are able to exit and re-enter the park as long as you get this special stamp and a ticket stub.  Yahh, when I first read that, I thought it said or.  I mean I was fine cause I had my ticket stub in my bag.  Mav and Alex, on the other hand, didn't lol.  We ended up having to get Mav's mom to come give them extra ticket stubs to get in.  Well when the problem was solved, the three of us went to what was formally Looney Land looking for Bugs, Tweety, Sylvester, and the others.  This was before we even found out the bad news.  So we first went into the foam place with the foam balls and their guns.  It was pretty sweet even though we were technically kinda too old to be in there without a legit reason.  Walking out of there, we were still looking for the Looney Tune characters.  We finally decided to ask a couple security guards nearby about the situation.  That's where we found out the horrible news.  So I guess last year, the corporation, Six Flags, decided to part ways from Elitch Gardens.  With parting ways, Six Flags also took with them the Looney Tunes, the Batman attractions, and basically anything dealing with Warner Brothers.  That explained why Looney Land was renamed, there was no more Batman show, and the Batman ride was renamed to the Dragon Wing.  Wack.  So of you guys probably already have known this for a while now.  But for me, I didn't mainly cause the last time I went to this theme park was when I was in middle school.

Well even though the whole Warner Brothers theme throughout the park is gone, there were still entertainment that still kept this visit enjoyable.  There were these African dancers who performed for the public doing these acrobatic and athletic trick and moves with jump ropes and everything.  It was pretty sweet.  There was also a show presented by Cirque Innosia called Imaginique.  The show had a similar style of entertainment like the show I watch before at the World Arena earlier this year.  That show was called Saltimbanco, presented by Cirque du Soleil.  The tricks and movements they did during the show was simply amazing, and we'll just keep it at that.

For the rest of our time there, we rode a couple more rides, chilled out at different areas of the park, a window shopped at the many souvenir shops there.  Overall, the stay there was pretty amazing.  When I look back at everything we did that day. I gotta say that this is a day to look back upon when this summer ends.

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