Before, my family would have never thought to go to the Amusement park named Six Flags Astroworld, but one day it suddenly just changed. I really was not sure what changed it could have been my brother and I just wanting somewhere new to go or maybe it was my parents seeing a commercial and thought it would be fun to make it a family trip. This began when I was around the age of seven or eight when we started to do our yearly trip to Six Flags. I really was not sure how fun this would be because even though I loved to try new things I also was scared but excited to do something new. At first this began with just my family of four, but then when we slowly got older me and my brother each got to bring a friend for more entertainment. I heard and saw so much from the advertisements of all of these thrilling huge roller-coasters; I kept hearing all the screams and this sounded like I might like it but I also might not because why would you be screaming for the fun of it? I remember the first time I went to Six Flags I was barely tall enough for most of the enormous roller-coasters but one of my best friends changed my mind on the green roller-coaster called the Viper. This roller-coaster was tall, it consist of a tunnel that brought us down low that lead us with great speed to a loop and a whole bunch of twist and turns that would thrill us. One thing about this roller-coaster was that when we went on the loop right as we were at the top upside down I opened my eyes to see for a split second the tiny people that looked like ants. Once the ride was over, me and my friend ran to my parents in excitement because from that moment forward the adrenaline of riding my first roller-coaster had left nothing of me that was scared, all I could say was "lets do that again!" with a smile on my face. Ever since my mom tells me when we are going I pick a friend and we are off on that specific date but the thing was was I was so excited because that adrenaline had seeped into me and never went away. This meant that the night before each time I would not be able to sleep for the thrill was just too much the next day.We went there for a couple of years but things kept changing each year such as one year my mom had to get a surgery in her neck that caused her to never be able to ride a roller-coaster again that is too rough on her neck, So each time me, my dad, brother and our two friends would look for a sign to see if she could but mostly they were all too rough so our rides had become not whole anymore once that happened. Even though this had happened we still went through our trips because it was not going to let us down it just would always feel different every time we went on a new roller-coaster. Even though we thought that would be the end of the bad news one day I watched the TV and it just so happened that the news was on. I read the headlines which devastated me because it said Astroworld closing down to become a parking lot. I told my mom and dad which made us go one last time before our family trips to Astroworld would end. Our family trips to Astroworld had ended so fast but those memories will never go away.
This memory stood out to me because it was one of the first times we went and made a family trip into a yearly thing, of course since then we have made other trips a yearly thing now. The thrill of that first time on a roller-coaster just changed my life into part of what I am now. I still get that thrill inside of me every now and then but it will never be the exact same I had from Astroworld even Six Flags Fiesta Texas just is not the same.
Perceptions of memories do change a lot over time but I feel that mine never did because it was a important and fun time for me, it also reminds me of my old friends that have grown apart. Even so all these memories will always stay as I see them and that is how it happened.
