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The luckiest weekend ever
May 23, 2006
This weekend was quite possibly the luckiest weekend I’ve ever had. Dan and I escaped to Cedar Point. It’s the “roller coaster capital of the world.”
The ride there wasn’t all too bad. One thing I learned: Ohio definitely has much better rest stops than Pennsylvania. I’m not a big fan stopping during road trips, but these places were the palaces of all rest stops.
When we first got to the hotel, we were given a key to a room on the second floor. It was a tiny little cave with one bed and hardly anything else. On top of that, it hadn’t been cleaned yet. Dan called the front desk to complain, and we were asked to stop down to recieve the key to our second room.
My expectations had been significantly lowered by that point. However, upon openning the room to our new door, on the first floor, I was quite happy that our first room had gone uncleaned. It was about twice as big, with two queen beds, rather than one twin.
The park was practically empty when we got there on Monday. The weather was perfect - lots of sunshine but still cool. Everything is located right on the coast.
Unfortunately, the ride I live for, the Raptor, closed shortly after we rode it the first time for unknown reasons. This, however, was a lucky weekend. While we were preparing the leave, around 7:55 (the park closes at 8:00), we saw that the Raptor was once again running. Dan and I sprinted to the entrance, and we rode it twice more. They ended up keeping it open until 8:45.
What else was lucky? Dan proved that he had a talent for skiball. I really wanted the giraffe from Madagascar, but it turned out that it was a medium prize, and we kept winning smalls. We were finally able to win four smalls, the trade-in for a medium. Dan, however, managed to also win a second medium, a fifth small, and a huge friggin’ snake. And now we have a family.
May 24th, 2006 at 11:41 am
I used to LOVE rollercoasters! I would ride Batman like 5 times every time I went to six flags. I could never understand how my mom would get so motion sick. She couldn’t even ride a ferris wheel fyi! lol so now i’m taking after her, and I feel queasy after like one ride. It sucks! :( Sounds like you had fun though. I like the zebra from madagascar :-D
May 25th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
Theme parks are the best!! I’m sure to hit one this summer, no point in bumming around the house all summer long ;)
Gosh, those rest stops! Might as well make them tourist attractions while they’re at it ;) LOL! Anyway, sounds like you had a blast this weekend! Everything seemed to have gone smoothly, from the hotel situation to the ride opening up again =) Madagascar is definitely one of the best kid movies!