Six Flags Over Texas / Frontier City

Dallas and Oklahoma City have been on our bucket lists for a while now so we finally found some reasonable flights and cars over Fourth of July break. From DFW, we got the car and drove right to the OKC Bombing Museum... it had been rated the top attraction in the entire state. Uhhh... a museum about a deadly bombing? OK...

Much to our surprise, it was a great museum! Everything was laid out perfectly in a timeline talking about what happened that morning in the federal building, including a live recording from the Water Resources meeting. Some crazy artifacts remained in that museum including the getaway car, clothes worn by McVeigh as well as debris and items recovered from victims. It was quite an experience. Not to be outdone was the memorial garden next door with a reflecting pool. After a couple of hours, we were on our way to Frontier City.

We knew Frontier City would be small, but we really had no idea. There are about 6 rows of parking as a parking lot. I hit Diamondback as soon as I got in, as an homage to Lightnin' Loops at Great Adventure. The ride itself violently shook as it left and returned to the station... as did the wooden structure queue. This can't be safe. I was able to get on after about 20 minutes, proceed to grey out, and get off in time before it broke down. The shoot 'em game was next. It had three two-person cars on the track, and the wait was horrific being only three switchbacks. The ride itself was decent... typical shooting dark ride. Wildcat was a solid woodie and was the only ride to be operating at a seemingly normal capacity. Didn't get on Silver Bullet or the Vekoma due to waits over an hour. Pretty sad that this park is in operation. Oh well, SFOT up next.

I ran to Titan first as I figured that would be the wait of the day. Great ride! Just like Goliath at SFMM, this was not aggressive at all despite the speed. The helix was grey out to the max going up into the brake. Hit the nearby Texas Giant right after that... another great RMC! No inversions, but the length more than made up for it. Felt like it was double the length of most RMCs we've gone on. Runaway Mountain was a fun indoor coaster.. the turns were tight and quick, with the trains being short enough to feel every jolt. Shockwave made up for the Schwarzkopf I missed at Frontier City... it's decent, though I think Mindbender at SFOG beats it by a mile. Judge Roy Scream was seen as Bill Cobb's favorite. Layout is fun and simple, but it hurts like hell. Runaway Mine Train was surprisingly excellent... Britt tries to avoid them but I convinced her it wouldn't be aggressive enough to be painful. And it wasn't. Didn't get on any clones or La Vibora unfortunately as the line moved an inch an hour. Next time... or St. Louis for Mr. Freeze.

Rest of the trip was great. OKC has a really tiny but neat version of a Riverwalk that runs under some roads. Fort Worth had an awesome cowboy area called the Stockyards that was slammed with people! We stuck around for the fireworks that night along the river... one of the more accessible displays we've seen. The last day included Dealey Plaza, which was on my bucket list. The sixth floor museum was closed though! Unreal... guess a return trip is in order. But not too soon; we actually enjoyed OKC the most out of the three cities surprisingly. Dallas felt very corporate. Kind of like Orlando I guess, a paper town. Odd to me given the market for sports, but I suppose they combine it with Fort Worth.