Friday and Saturday, Sep 2-3

Alright, well here it is, first TR (sorry for the incredible long-winded-ness, I have trouble omitting details).
EDIT: Hoooly crap that's really long for two days, longer than I expected, haha. Oh well. Read if you've got some free time =P

My cousin (and my sister's friend) spent the night on Thursday with the plan to get up early Friday morning and get there around 10-10:30. Well, we stayed up until about 1 in the morning playing Gamecube and PC games, so naturally we slept in a little :). We ended up getting there around 3ish, so right after getting our Lighthouse Point cottage we went in the Magnum entrance and hopped on Magnum. They were only running two trains and it seemed to be going somewhat slower than usual. I also didn't hear the auto-spiel that someone brought up in the General forum a while back, so I'm not sure about that. I wanted to get the ejector seat, but my cousin insisted that 2nd from the back is the best ejector seat, so we sat there. Great ride anyways, awesome first drop of the trip.

After that we headed up to Power Tower, one of our favorite rides in the park. Both sides were only running one tower, but that was okay because the park was really empty, still hardly a line. We rode the Space Shot side and got a nice view of the Dragster line, it looked barely an hour long. Sadly, we didn't get in line for it then, which turned out to be a mistake.

Headed over to Raptor next, our other favorite ride, awesomely short wait. Rode in the far back, great as usual. After Raptor I headed over to Demon Drop (yes, I know, very erratic schedule) just because it's a great ride and they're selling it. Noticed a guy wearing a blue maintenance outfit sitting at the end of the brake run, right before you drop down, watching each car. Seemed odd..

After stopping at the donut shop for some ice cream, we decided to head over to the Wicked Twister area. Skipped maXair simply because neither of us [u]really[/u] wanted to ride it, so hopped on Chaos and WT instead. Chaos was great like usual, seemed like no one was riding it though, and Wicked Twister was great (second from the back [u]owns[/u]). Decided to ride the air conditioned Disaster Transport because we needed a break from the sun. They had the front entrance closed up in preparation for the Pharoah haunted house, thought that was kinda cool (they used the exit as the entrance, if you were wondering).

After that we met up with one of my friends that was also coming up that day for a short time. We got in a Raptor run and a Mantis run before she had to leave. Raptor would have been about 15 minutes, but someone threw up before we got up there so they had to clean it all off.. XD

After that we went and spent the necessary time at the Coliseum arcade :) great as usual, got a crowd for DDR (got an A on Max300 heavy, if any of you know what that means). We also played the Taiko Drum Master game, a new shooter they had, and I shot some skeeball. On our way over to Johnny Rockets, my cousin decided to play his favorite, the Speed Pitch midway game, and won a red bear.

Dinner at Johnny Rockets was great until I realized that my iPod got stolen at the arcade (why I brought it, I do not know..). When I went to play DDR, I empty my pockets and give them to my mom (they bounce around too much while playing). She had the iPod in her lap, went and sat down in a driving game, fell asleep, woke up and it was gone. That pretty much sucked, but my St. Louis was great so that made it better.

By then it was about 7:45 (the park closed at 8) so we got in line for Millennium, hoping to be on one of the last ones of the night. The Millennium crew was working UNBELIEVABLY fast, the line was only about a half hour, and I spent about 30 seconds in the station. We got on the second to last train of the night and saw one of my friends from home, so that was cool. There was also a guy behind me that knew a LOT about Cedar Point, and brought up a lot of topics that I recognized from here. Any takers? Second to last train of the night, you were with a large black guy, I was wearing a black shirt and was with another guy my height.. :)

That night we stayed up late playing Gamecube again, and slept in until 10 the next day. Got out of the cottage at 11 because that's when they kicked us out (haha) so got into the park around noon. We'd both been there many times this season already and didn't really have anything we specifically wanted to do except dragster. Unfortunately, it shut down the night before and didn't open once all day. I'm not sure what happened, but it was something serious, all the trains were off on the storage tracks and there wasn't a single employee in the station all day.

We rode Mean Streak and Gemini when we got in, then couldn't really decide what to do. The park was significantly more packed than it was the day before, I didn't see any lines (for real rides) under a half hour. We decided to just relax in the various arcades and such :). I won a choice dog at the bushel basket game (back on the Gemini midway), then decided to win another one because I knew my sister would want one. If you want to win a choice prize without trying very hard, play that; it's pretty hard not to win. Then I went into the Gemini arcade and played some skeeball. Won two smalls (a pink bear and a green one, hehe). I called my mom and she said "ooh win one for Aunt Lisa!!" so I got another purple one for my aunt =D

After that we went to the Coliseum arcade, did some more stuff there (mainly DDR, driving games, and I played skeeball). I won two of those little Care Bears on the skeeball (the smalls). I couldn't get more than 320, grrrr.

Now it was about 5:30, and we had planned to meet up at 6 at the Magnum entrance to go home. Well as it turns out, my sister and her friend didn't know that Millennium was the most popular (operating) ride AND that it was really busy that day. My cousin went off with his parents, me and my mom basically got some cheese fries and waited. She showed up around 6:45, full of excuses. Oh well. We got out of there, stopped at Fazoli's for dinner (VERY good, I recommend it to anyone) and got on our way.

Thanks for responding to my other topic, Ben your tip about the cell phone voice note helped. I usually write things (like essays in English) with way too many details, so eh sorry if you don't like it.

*** Edited 9/5/2005 2:45:56 AM UTC by GeeForce*** *** Edited 9/5/2005 2:46:31 AM UTC by GeeForce***

Sounds like a quality trip, I was there Saturday also and the weather was GREAT! I was in at the Gemini skeeball too around 4:30 and had the same problem with 320 but i won 4 smalls and got myself a medium Bart. The lines were short right in the morning, me and my cousin got on Millennium, Mean Streak, Gemini, Monster, and Magnum all before 12, but we got into the park at 9. We left by 5.