Chicago Vacation – Great America
Mike and I love roller coasters and we have been to Six Flags in LA a few times. We were excited to go to Six Flags Great America and experience some new rides. We asked our friends Jen and Chad and their family to join us.
Our original thought was for the adults to alternate riding rides and hit the kids stuff in the middle since I didn’t think there would be enough to keep the kids busy the whole day. As a teenager or an adult without kids, I can remember running from roller coaster to roller coaster, trying to get to the rides before the wait was too long. I guess I never slowed down to notice all the other small rides and shops there were at Six Flags. We started off with a few kid rides and then found more kid rides and more kid rides. We ended up spending all of our time on the kid rides and moderate, smaller roller coasters that the kids could ride.
The kids started out simple….the carousel. They rode on the top deck and had a great time. Next stop was The Condor….a big step for the kids. The Condor takes them 112 feet above the ground and spins parallel to the ground. Once again the kids loved it, but Luke commented that he liked “a little more carousel and little less that!”
One of the highlights was going to Wiggles World. Caden loves the Wiggles and was so excited to see all the rides based on the Wiggles. The kids rode Dorothy’s Tea Cups, The Big Red Planes and The Big Red Cars.
We also watched “Get Ready To Wiggle”, a show with actors singing The Wiggles songs. Dorothy the Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus and Wags the Dog were all there. Caden got a front row seat and was pretty excited. Our family knows all the songs and have been to a few concerts, but this show was pretty awful. If you have never seen The Wiggles before, don’t see this show and make a judgement about The Wiggles. Even Caden was a bit disappointed…he barely danced or sang along.
After lunch, we rode some more kid rides and once everyone’s food was sufficiently digested, everyone wanted to ride a roller coaster. So, all of the kids (except 1) were all tall enough to ride Spacely’s Space Rockets, a kiddie roller coaster. They also rode the Little Dipper, a roller coaster that I remember from my childhood at KiddieLand. Everyone had a great time!
Of course we ended our Six Flags fun in the gift shop and all the kids got superhero capes!
We then went to Giordano’s Pizza for some Deep Dish Pizza and reminisce about our great day! The pizza was so good as it is something we greatly miss it in AZ!
