We had a walk-on on TTD and then went later with a 1-hour wait. Two rides on MF with a total queue of 30 min. Magnum is rough, yet I wish we had it in place of Wildthing at VF. We got a couple rides on that. Then Raptor we sat in the middle with a 15-minute wait, and later in the day we waited 10 minutes got in the station then they needed two people for the front, which would be my sister and me. We got on a few other rides, so it was an excellent 5.5 hours.
Saturday was horrible. Using our early entrance we got in early to wait behind 20-30 people for Dragster. We waited a while for all the trains to get over the crest. It had 5 rollbacks on one train. We then got on the ride in the third train of the day (just like Friday) and then what do you know... a rollback on the second train. (Some guy named Larry that every employee knew was on there) Oh well.
We walked to MF to see the line and it was already a 1-hour wait so we got on Mantis. It was running speedy with no trims.
Then we walked around the park. My sis went into the Undertaker maze and I went to Mean Streak.I love Mean Streak. There was no line and was a walk-on for the front. The length and perfect balance between roughness and smoothness makes it equal to Ghostrider on my list. It as well was running nice. I got off and I saw my sister in line for it, but she opted not to get on and skipped over the train.
We wondered back to Gemini and got a nice ride on the Blue Train I believe. Plenty of airtime, yet not quite as rough as Excalibur at VF. We won.
My sister and I looked at the Dragster line, got in, but right as we walked in there was a rollback. They closed the line to any additional guests. I knew that meant a problem so we got out. Dragster didn't launch for another couple hours. After a half hour wait for Magnum, which still busts my balls and legs, we went out of the park and called our parents to get dinner.
We couldn't get a hold of them so we played a round of mini-golf. My sister and I started speaking with an English accent and doing other foolish things like scaring 2 little kids. Hey, but I got 2 hole-in-ones. Go me. When my parents got there we were going to eat at the TGIF at the park, but it was a 1.5-hour wait. We left...heh. We went to the Raddison TGIF where we had an appetizer of some god Jack Daniel's Shrimp and I had some Chicken Fingers. If in doubt, buy chicken fingers.
After eating we bought a camera went to the hotel for a bathroom break (I hate doing my business in public places, especially amusement parks). We then departed and were back in the park a little earlier than eight. We walked back and around the park for something to do.
Iron Dragon (Donkey as referred to by my father) had broken down, which we wanted to go on due to the normally short line. I checked the Mantis line which was an amazing 1+ hour wait and walked past Millennium Force which was longer than my first ride on it 2 years ago (2.75 hours).
I took some snap shots of MF and mantis as we walked through Fright Zone. All the marble shaking cans scared my sister and she told me earlier in the undertaker maze that she had jumped on someone else. When one screamster spooked her she started talking to him.
Screamster: something something
Sis: You know you’re not funny
Screamster: I know I'm not supposed to be
Park Guest: Ah (trying to scare Screamster)
Sis: Can I touch your face?
Screamster: ...................No....
We walked out of Fright Zone and my sister tried to talk me into going into Werewolf Canyon. I told her I hate being scared when I can't see whets coming, and I am not waiting 1 hour to be scared poopless. The line was all the way back past the undertaker maze. So we walked by the hoards of people and saw absolutely no wait for the log flume.
We got on and barely got wet. I took some nice shots of Dragster and Mean Streak as well. As we got on a second time we would say hi to other boat loads and scream like sissies. A boat full of teens flipped off my sister. As we were on the exit path we saw a kid from that boat get off prematurely as he passed the entrance queue. He's lucky I didn't tell the ride attendants. I wanted to yell at them for being so rude as well as line cutting, even if there were only a few people in line.
After that mishap we headed to Mean Streak. The line was a little less than a half hour where I enjoyed listening to other people conversations. In the station I was arguing with my sister about something and we started yelling shut up at each other when the ride attendant push my lap bar as far down as it could several times. He told me not to talk like that to a lady, only jokingly though. We said bye to Shane. We went in the front where it was an even faster ride than before. As we got off the line was shorter than before. Again when we got in the station we talked to another attendant that was angry because they skipped rotation 3 times. Jacob said he was going to tell ride management and get them all fired. We laughed. We sat in the back and were in for another great ride. We walked off and said goodbye to Shane and Jacob who were yelling at each other while Shane used Psychology to make Jacob say Ah huh instead of Nuh uh.
Gemini was a half hour wait so we got in line there. We sat near the front where my sister got to slap hands with a few others. Getting off that it was probably around 11. We checked out Dragster still with a full line.
We walked around the back again complaining what to do either Mantis or Fright Zone. I told my sister we could do Fright Zone after Mantis, but she got fussy and said let's just go on Mantis. We waited only 15 minutes. The ride was running faster than earlier which made it great for me, but my sister said she banged up her head. I didn't. Strange.
That was our last ride. We called for a ride home from the greatest park in America.
Total rides:
TTD: 3
MF:2
Mantis:2
Magnum:2
Raptor:2
Wicked Twister:1
Mean Streak:3
Gemini:2
I am saddened due to my pictures turning out like crap. I want a digital camera. Crappy store bought cameras. Never shall I buy them again.
Hyperion
Fixed Paragraphing.... I guess it doesn't transfer well from Word. Also forgive me with my choice of using WE all the time... I am lazy
*** This post was edited by Hyperion 10/21/2003 8:01:37 AM ***
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