Day 23

Six Flags of Texas season passes are worth their weight in gold to locals.

Or at least they were to two seminary students who were crazy about roller coasters.  For the price of two-and-a-half admissions, you could go as many times as you wanted, and stay as long or as short as you wished!

My friend Pam and I were attending Southwestern in Ft. Worth.  We were yet to be roommates, but each of us were ministering in churches that were only about two miles apart.  Each also required us to be present on both Sunday mornings and evenings. 

What better way to spend that time in between, than riding roller coasters?  So Pam and I bought our season passes.  We would pack a sandwich lunch, meet after church in one of the parking lots, and then drive to Arlington.  We would ride as much as we could fit in, make it back home in time to shower, and get back to church on time. The Texas Giant wooden roller coaster was fairly new back then, but I remember one afternoon after a storm had passed through, we must have ridden it five times in a row before the line reformed!

(I think all that Sunday fun might have finally made up for all the missed ”Wonderful World of Disney’s” from the Sunday nights of my childhood. ;-)