Day 40 – July 28, 2019

This morning we said good bye to the Confederate paradise that is Stone Mountain.

While eating her normal breakfast meal of cereal, Ashley wondered out loud what could be done with the ingredients used for last night’s s’mores.

We kicked the idea around a little and decided there had to be a way to enjoy a graham cracker, a chocate bar and a marshmallow as a breakfast treat.

The light bulb went on and a new morning dessert was created: introducing the s’morning. It is a s’more without toasting the marshmallow.

You may be wondering, how is it? Let Ashley show you.

She liked it!

Our next stop was Six Flags Over Georgia. This is the only Six Flags park we have not previously visited. We were pretty excited to check it out.

We were hoping for another near empty park with very short lines. Those hopes were dashed before we even entered the turnstiles as the line of cars to enter the parking lot was 20 minutes long.

We shook it off, grabbed a map and selected a few coasters to ride that were were unique to this park.

Even though we adjusted our expectations, we found it difficult to stand in lines for upwards of an hour.

We rode four coasters and decided to just eat lunch in the park. But the restaurant lines were longer than the coaster lines. So we jogged back to the van for lunch.

Taking Ashley’s lead, Kathy invented a new food item: cold dog with avocado.

I don’t do selfies, but if I did, my face would tell you it was fricking amazing.

For dessert, we dined on more s’mornings.

Refreshed, relaxed, and reinvigorated, we tackled Six Flags for the afternoon session.

This park’s signature attraction is a dark ride called Monster Mansion.

The ride resides in a southern plantation house.

The ride vehicle is a small boat.

The place is filled with friendly monsters. There seems to be a story line here but I never figured it out.

Ashley spent the whole ride waiting for the big drop that never happened.

Next, we rode a 300 foot tall spinning swing ride.

Because of the enormously long lines at every attraction, we focused on this park’s one-of-a-kind experiences.

As we were on the verge of leaving, we walked past a shooting ride called Battle for Metropolis. The same ride is found at many Six Flags parks. But the line looked short, so we broke our rule and we gave it a go.

Unfortunately, the line moved incredibly slow. We got stuck in an indoor queue with no air conditioning and seemingly no air for an hour.

When we finally boarded the ride vehicle, we found the ride missing many important special effects. At the end, we just wanted our hour back.

The good news is that we in fact got our hour back. Just a few miles down the road, we crossed into the Central Time Zone which meant we got to move the clock back one hour. It is not often you get an hour back.

We stayed the night at a Best Western in Birmingham, Alabama.