May 23-25 2006

Since I work nights and weekends, I have a 4 day work week. I essentially have 6am monday morning until 8pm thursday evening off, and decided to go to Cedar Point (duh).

Anyway, I ended up sleeping until about 3:30 pm on Monday, and by the time I got up, ate, took a shower and loaded up my truck it was almost 5 pm. Being a 3 hour drive to Sandusky, I knew I wouldn't make it before closing.

I got down there around 8:30 and had dinner at Max & Ermas, then went to Tami's house. Then I took a trip to the Point around 1am and took some night pictures.

I went back to my campsite at Bayshore ($18ish a night is awesome) and stayed up for a little while longer, then went to bed.

Woke up Tuesday morning around 9:00 or so. Took a shower, went to the park and rode Magnum a few times. Then I spent a few hours taking pictures (link at the end). I then rode a lot of rides around the park, including Gemini, Mean Streak, Paddlewheel, Magnum, Skyhawk and I forget what else. Somewhere in there I took a break and went to Castaway Bay's spa and got a massage and then took pictures of the new track and got lunch at Panera (Can't beat free wireless)

Anyway, I forget what else I all rode, but I stayed till almost close and then headed out.

I went to battery park around 10pm and took some pictures, none of which really came out all that great. I need to work on the controls of my camera a bit more I think.

Wednesday was a pretty nice day, I didn't end up getting to the park until like 11:30 or noon. I rode a bunch of different rides, and met up with John from Pointbuzz. I ended up leaving around 6 after waiting for Raptor, and it broke down.

Dinner at Crackerbarrel, then it was decided I should stay another night in Sandusky, so I got a hotel room. I ended up staying up until about 3am before waking up at like 7am. I was back at Soak City gate for ERT at 9, and got 3 rides on Skyhawk, then went to Magnum and got probably 7 or so rides on it before going home at 11.

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Pretty decent rides you rode, If i was there for nearly 2 1/2 days like you were, I would definentaly ride way more rides and spend a lot more time in the park instead of going to CrackerBarrel and Panera Bread (even though I too enjoy their free WiFi), lol. Good Trip Report anyways.

Edited for spelling mistake.
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There's still a whole summer of riding. I don't ever have a full day where I ride from open to close everything I can much anymore. If I ride a lot, its usually marathoning something like Magnum or Millennium Force or Raptor.

Well, you get to go there like 5 times every summer or more, I mean, you have your own car and everything, I at most go like 2 times every year with my parents, so I try to go on as many rides as I can. But yeah, If I could go as much as you, I'd probably chill too.

Yeah, I swipe my season pass 20-30+ times a year. I've already spent 7 days in the park plus Media Day so far this year.

You can buy my truck off me, though, if you want. I'm tired of the payment. :)

It's also different after you work there. Do I still ride a lot? you bet. I just don't feel the need to almost kill myself physically at the park to the point of where I can't function for 2 days afterwards.