May 19th and 20th

This is my first trip report so it might not be the best.
So first around noon on Saturday we left for Sandusky. We (Me, my dad, and my sister) came from Midland, MI so it was about 5 hours cause we stopped a lot. So when we were finally in Sandusky we drove to the park and up to the parking booth. The girl that was at the booth let us in for free, as we were just going up to look at GateKeeper for a little bit and turn around. We went to the picnic shelter and took a few videos of the turn around on GateKeeper and looked at the front entrance area. I was surprised on how big the keyholes were. So we went around the area for a little bit, took a pic in front of the sign, then got back in the car and went to Battery Park to take some more pics and video. Then we drove to our hotel. We stayed at the Comfort Inn the first night. Sunday morning we headed out to the park and drove to Hotel Breakers. We got our tickets and FastLane and went into the park. We walked all the way to guest services to get a 52" wristband for my sister. Then we headed straight for GateKeeper. The line was only about 10 minutes for us. I got the right side, second seat, outside. The first inversion was awesome, as you were just dangling there upside down. The first drop was really forceful, that I actually greyed out at the bottom. This happened every time I rode. The airtime hill was okay, (Not as good as Maverick) and the giant flat spin seemed a lot more like some sort of roll than a corkscrew as I expected. Anyway, it was a fun feeling. The keyholes were fun, but not as good as expected. Maybe it was because I knew I wasn't going to hit them, or maybe it was because I wasn't sitting in the very front (When I sat in the very front they were better), but they were still awesome. The turnaround had a surprising amount of g-force which really caught me off guard. The side keyhole was awesome as well, as it was really cool just slowly rotating over everyone. The rest of the ride was just kinda fun, not that intense. The bottom of the helix actually surprised me the most, as it actually pulled some pretty good g-force at the end of it. The restraints didn't bug me at all. I noticed it was a little tight on the hips, but that's all. Overall, it was an awesome ride and comes in probably second right behind Dragster.
Later we rode:
Power Tower
Gemini
Jr Gemini (For the first time. I can now say I've rode every coaster there)
Maverick (3 times)
Millennium (3 times)
Mantis
Raptor
Wicked Twister (2 times)
Blue Streak (4 times)
GateKeeper (4 times)
Top Thrill Dragster
Dragster was down most of the time we were there, so I didn't get on it as much as I would have liked. Most of these were pretty normal ride experiences except for the ones I'm going to talk about below.

Gemini: This ride was actually really smooth. I loved high fiving people as they were passing. That was the first time I ever did that. Really fun ride and definitely went up on the list.

Mantis: Haven't tried it in 2 years, so I figured I would. I probably won't try it in another 2 years. It was just so painful on my legs. By the time I got off I was just in total pain.

Blue Streak: This ride is amazing. This definitely went up on my favorites list. The airtime is just amazing. The last 2 airtime hills are the best IMO.

So then later on Sunday when I was trying all the different seats on GateKeeper, I saw John Hildebrandt. I said hi and talked to him a little bit about GateKeeper and ended up getting a picture with him. He gave me his business card and told me to email him, so that's pretty cool. I ended the day with an 8:00 run to Millennium Force. We ended up eating at TGI Fridays at about 9 which was amazing, probably because I was starving and tired.

Monday morning we slept in and got ready quickly to use our early entry. Right away we went to Millennium. You're all going to call me crazy, but I had a really rough ride on this. I sat in second to back. So at the bottom of the first drop I almost completely black out to the point where I can barely see anything until the first tunnel. Its probably because I didn't have any breakfast or anything to drink, as the rides on Sunday were not as bad. The whole ride it felt just so bumpy. I don't know why, but my sister and dad agreed with me. The whole cart rattles like crazy too. I guess it's aging. It also seemed to be going faster than usual the whole time. We didn't really get on any big rides on Monday as it was even more packed than Sunday with tons of high school field trips. After Millennium we went to Donut time and got some breakfast. I rode Blue Streak 3 times and then we went to go check on the GateKeeper line. Since we got on a bunch of rides yesterday, we weren't going to wait in really long lines. We stood in front of Pagoda cam and waited for it to update, which then I saved the picture from my phone. We got on Iron Dragon, rode the railroad, got on all 3 car rides, got on CCMR, Mean Streak, Giant Wheel, and waited 30 minutes for Wicked Twister. Mean Streak was terrible. It wasn't really that rough, and didn't give me a headache or anything, but it sure was boring. There were heavy trims on the first hill and they were bad. It ruined the whole ride right there. I can't wait for the day it gets the NTG treatment. We were going to go on Dragster again but it was down most of the day. Magnum was also down pretty much the whole time we were there. We got Pinks for lunch, it took forever, and it was pretty good. We had to leave about 3 so we went to Pagoda and got some park maps and I ended up buying Cedar Point-opoly which is actually pretty fun.
Overall it was a great trip. The weather was perfect, the rides were perfect, it was just awesome.

First, not a bad TR.

Second, for millie, I'm surprised by this, I've never heard of it being a bad ride other than during breakdowns or whatever. I believe the culprit to be a bad wheel. Since 2011 the new wheels they've purchased really haven't been perfectly up to par IMO. I'll evaluate this weekend when I'm there with the rest of my armed forces bretheren.

Again though, good TR, very complete and entailing :)