My Personal Finale

Well, while i dont post much, here it goes. I took my last trip of the year to our fine park yesterday. It was fantastic, and i will start at the begining.

I woke up at the picutre perfect hour of 3:30 in order to get there.....wow, that was early. Luckily i wasnt driving, and so i slept most of the way there (i live about 5 hours away).

When we arrived, we scoped out our hotel (econolodge!) and proceded to enter, park, and just prepar for a good old time. Ther rest of my family arent coaster riders, so i went off to the marina gate on my own to catch the moring MF ride. Rushing in was great....though i must be really out of shape, becasue i was really out of breath by the time i reached MF. I waited about 10/15 minutes, for a great ride. i caught up with my borhter, who now decided he wanted to ride some coasters (i guess MF made him a bit nervous) We went back, and rode Gemini, CCMR, and Magnum, all in about an hour. All the while i was getting coments from people on my most stylin' vintage iron dragon shirt.

Suffice to say, i think the iron dragon crew was pretty amazed by my shirt.....alot of "wow" and "i havent seen one of those in years!".

Rode mantis with a 1:15 wait....still worth it, i love it. Then got in line for MF at about 8:45. that seemed like the wait lasted forever...i stood next to some cool people, though. Except for one guy, who i bumped into twice and he started getting a tad preturbed. The night ride was most extreme.....it just blew me away. And even with that, i still managed to get to the front of the park to ride Raptor for the final ride of the day and the season. I then went and did my customary putting my feet in the waterball, and then i was off, another great season at the point complete. A great year for my first year as a season pass holder.....

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Impressive that you live 5 hours away and leave the morning of. Yikes!

Isn't the "Running of the Bulls" just the best? In my ONE tip for a newcomer I said - Marina Gate, and get in shape before you 'Get to the PO!NT'. We did the running during the heat wave (high 80s by 9:30) we were huffing and puffing as we went through the queue.

Maybe I should know (or don't want to know :) ) but what is the "customary putting my feet in the waterball"?

Putting my feet in the waterball is just that....sitting on the edge and dangling my feet in. That cold water feels soooooo good on tired feet at the end of the day. I forgot to mention that on my last ride on raptor that night, the person speiling saw my ID shirt and had me stand in front of the whole train so they could see it.....that was one of the coolest things, along with getting to see thunder canyon with no water in it
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