Going back for more

You might think after driving 1,164 miles less than a week ago (the trip back from AZ), that I'd have some aversion to making additional trips for at least a good long while. Unfortunately, circumstances have dictated otherwise.

You see, during the school year, the girls each participated in a reading program that had free Six Flags tickets as its prize for completing the program. And both girls earned tickets. The problem was that they're only good for a limited time. Knowing that they expired in August, when we got back from vacation, I checked the dates to ensure the tickets were still good. Wouldn't it figure that they were only good for one more week? I thought I had a couple more weeks at least.

So you might think, hey, you just took them to Disneyland, spent 14 hours there, and burned more than $300 in that timeframe, so that should be good enough for them, right? Well, not really. My problem is that they will never let me live it down if I don't take them to Six Flags after encouraging them to read all those books. Plus, I'd never be able incentivize them to do anything ever again for a reward. Therefore, I had no choice. I HAD to take them to Six Flags, THIS weekend.

So, after work today, I picked up the kids, we went by the house to get the bag I packed this morning, we got some dinner, and we hit the road. Four hours and two hundred miles later, we arrived in Arlington, Texas, and we can see the roller coasters of Six Flags from our hotel window. So, tomorrow morning, first thing, you know where we'll be.

We'll probably be there six or eight or ten hours. Who knows. But then we'll have to face that four hour drive again. I'd really like to catch the 2pm ballgame (Texas Rangers) as our hotel is between the Six Flags and the Ballpark in Arlington (pardon me, "Ameriquest Field"). But somehow I can't imagine the kids will say, sure day, let's get our hands stamped, go catch the ballgame for three hours, and then come back to Six Flags.