Expand Your Life

Every year UGA offers students and alumni one night of discounted prices at Six Flags over Georgia. The park is opened only for those affiliated with UGA, and it stays open until midnight. This year, I decided to try something new and go.

The weather was beautiful and the drive there didn’t seem to take very long. My group arrived around seven-thirty. We opted to eat at the Wendy’s right outside of Six Flags in order to save money. For those of you who have never been to Six Flags at all, a small chicken nuggets and fries meal would probably cost you about ten dollars, minus a drink.

After eating, we entered the park. Because we arrived somewhat late (the park opened at 6), we did not get to ride very many rides. We rode the Mind Bender rollercoaster first, because the line was not that long. Then we rode Monster Plantation because it had an even shorter line. Someone had the brilliant idea of waiting in line for Batman for two hours, which took up nearly all of our time. By the time we finished, most of the lines for the other rollercoasters were closed off. We rushed towards the Scream Machine, the only coaster with a line still open. Afterwards, we climbed aboard Monster Plantation one last time just so we could say we rode five rides.

We left the park around exactly midnight. This time the ride did not seem to go by as fast. Everyone was exhausted and ready to arrive back in Athens. It was a fun night, but I would say that going to Six Flags a random Tuesday would be more fun because there would not be two-hour waits for most of the best rides.