My four adult children, one son-in-law, and myself arrive at the Maples Motel at 7PM Sat. Nice, clean, and friendly place, except for the freight-train horn every 10 min. About 8PM, my daughter goes to the office to ask if the trains will be running all night. At which point the person at the desk produces a big bucket of earplugs and gives us a handful.:) How cool is that? This alone guarantees a return visit, IMO.
Left Maples at 7:30 Sun morning, ate breakfast at the McDonalds on the Causeway. Was at the front desk of Breakers by 8:30 to preregister and purchase 2Day ride-n-slides. Was waiting at the beach entrance by 8:45 to make the dash for MF. Some of the rides and activities in the rest of this report were with various members of my family and some were by myself.(Aren't cellphones great?) Rode MF,went to Maverick, but it was closed. Then TTD, BS twice, MaxAir, DT, WT, PowerTower(down), Magnum. Needed a break, so went to SC, Bubbles hot tub, both lazy rivers(2 laps each),and wavepool, where some moron was wearing prescription glasses. Five minutes after I notice this, I feel something crunchy under my foot. Sure enough, I dive under and pick up the glasses(minus one bow), and am able to locate the owner who is still looking for them.(some peoples kids). Also, when I was about 1/4 of the way forward, where the waves are stronger, a lady was on her stomach on a tube in front of me. We were both facing forward(towards the deep end). A wave hits and her feet were rocketing directly at my face. 3 feet closer and I would have been KO'd. We then ate at Friday's at about 4PM, no waiting. Rode Maverick, got in line for MF, then the storm hit, at about 7:40. Almost everyone left, making us the 5th-9th in line. We were rewarded, riding MF 5 times between 9-10PM.
Day 2:Ran from Magnum entrance to Maverick at 9AM, rode twice, then TTD(front row), Corkscrew, Magnum. Went to the car to drink 3 bottles of water(1,1/2qts., needed to stay hydrated). Gemini, Skyhawk, Wildcat, DT, Raptor,(still get nauseus on this one), BS,(still running great after all these years), made my only in-park purchase(a $4 slushy),Mantis, CP&LERR(JudyK), ThunderCanyon, Then ate at Perkins at about 5PM. Finished with a ride on Maverick, and 3 rides on Magnum between 9:45-10:00PM. Waved goodbye for another year at about 8:30 Tue morning. You know, I never paid attention to what was going on with STR.
COASTER COUNT:
MF:6
Maverick:4
TTD:2
Magnum:5
DT:2
BS:3
1 each:Raptor,MaxAir,WT,PowerTower,Corkscrew,Gemini, Skyhawk,Wildcat,Mantis,CP&LERR,ThunderCanyon
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