5/24 and 5/25, short and sweet

[deb]

We left IN at about 3 pm. Had to make some pit stops along the way, finally got to KI at about 7. Waited in pass processing until 8, then wanted to head straight to DB, but the line was in full queue, so we opted for something else. We got in line for Backlot Stunt Coaster, realizing that it's almost always our first coaster of the season, and waited prob 45 mins. Then we went over to Vortex, which had a line all the way back to Shake Rattle and Roll... took about 30 minutes to get to the station. Had a decent ride, somewhere in the middle. Got off and walked over to Firehawk, wanting a night ride on it, but it had technical difficulties and it had been closed. We walked back (I was roasting) and stood in line for Zephyr (all the while my husband complaining that he was waiting for the swings...), had a nice cooling ride on it, then I decided I wanted a night ride on my favorite coaster, Top... errr Flight Deck (man I loathe that name), waited for the front seat, had an amazingly fast and superior ride on it, then got off and started to walk towards the exit. It was nearly 10, but my husband wanted to ride Drop Tower (I didn't, I was getting a headache), so I sat down, watched the fireworks while he rode DT, and then we headed to our motel.

Sunday morning I awoke at 7ish, and got dressed for a full day. We loaded up and headed out to KI at about 8:30. We got to the park at 9ish, got a PERFECT parking spot, and sat there for a bit, waiting until it was closer to 9:30 to go line up. We walked up, got our passes scanned, then showed the gold and headed to DB. When we got there, there was about 60 or so people in front of us, and an op saying the ride was down, had no clue when it'd be up, feel free to go to The Beast, etc etc etc. We opted to stay in line, so as to not miss our first ride on DB. About 4 mins later, the op opened the gate and through the queue we went. We were standing on the stairs when we first had to stop. Then we made it up, and we got on the third train of the day. I've gotta say, it was AMAZING! I can only wait until I ride it again, so I can see everything, as I had my eyes closed for a good half of the ride, due to having no expectations from riding it before. Next time I'll be wide open for all 3 mins! When we got off, it was still before 10, so we walked onto a ride on The Beast, we even waited a cycle for the front seat. I think it was the first time I'd been in the front, and it too was fantastic! By this time, the GP was lurking, so we walked over to Firehawk to get a ride on it. We waited about 20 mins or so, and rode the yellow train. When we got off, I wanted to ride FoF, he wasn't too happy about it, but I got my ride, anyway. He was itching to go to BB (only reason he even goes to KI), so I begged for a ride on Invertigo. We got on, I rode forward first (which I never do) and had a great "new" ride experience. I wanted to go up Eiffel, so we went up and I looked at DB in all it's glory. We went out to the truck to eat, then went to BB. We walked up to Snowy River, waited about 30 mins, got off, then my bandaids and gauze began to come off... (I had bad blisters from the day before) so I took off the bandaids and we waded through the kiddie pool on the way to the wave pool. Some other people were leaving and they gave us their cots. We stretched out, and I think we both fell asleep... I got burned. We awoke, I saw the time (around 6) and we thought about going to Typhoon, but the line was very long and we were dry... so we caught the train back to rivertown. He had wanted to go onto WWC, but didn't want to get wet again. We got some fab fries in rivertown, then walked up to the front. I neglected to say before, but we got trapped in by the ASA thing, both times we wanted to go out to the truck. We went out at 7 with the intention of going back, but by the time we got out there, we were ready for the road. We got home at around 10.

deb