Hoeter Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Me and a couple of friends decided to go out to Kings Island on Sunday July 5th to celebrate my 22nd Birthday. My birthday is actually on July 7 but I decided to go yesterday because most people had the weekend off and I could get more people together. I actually thought that Kings Island would be an absolute madhouse with it being Independence Day weekend. Boy was I wrong! Me and my friend arrived about 11:00am and parked in the Gold Pass lot. There weren't many cars in the Gold Pass section, and even many cars in the parking lot for that matter. As always, my first ride of the day was The Beast. Two train wait in the station for the front row. Many rows on our train were empty. Next up was Vortex. They were running three trains, but only two were being dispatched with riders. I guess somebody threw up because every time the empty train returned to the station, 5-2 was cleaned and hosed down and sent on it's way. We ended up waiting 25 minutes for 5-1. We met up with a few more friends at this time and headed towards Flight of Fear. Waited 25 minutes for second row. After this, I needed to use the restroom. I had to walk down to the restrooms at the end of Coney Mall down by Vortex. They really need to put some restrooms back in X-Base. Following this, we went on Firehawk. Waited 30 minutes for second row on red train. Next up was three rides on Diamondback. All three rides had wait times of 20 minutes or less. Row 1, 3, and 15 on green train. After this, we headed to the other side of the park and walked right on Adventure Express. Then we headed to Delirium. This was my first time on Delirium, and it was awesome. From the ground, it looked like it didn't swing that high in the air. On the ride, totally different. Waited one cycle for Delirium. Flight Deck was next. Two train wait for front row. Short, but fun ride. Hope it isn't removed at the end of the season. The remainder of the day was spent at Diamondback. Got 5 more rides in: two in row 1, one in rows 4, 10, and 16. When I rode in Row 4, someone lost their phone and it flew off going down the first drop. I tried to catch it, but failed. Kudos to Kings Island for putting the big huge box of broken phones in the queue line. Ride Totals: DB-8, Beast-1, Vortex-1, FoF-1, FH-1, AE-1, Delirium-1, FD-1, Thanks for reading. More TR's as I get out to Kings Island! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
standbyme Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 I'm glad you had a good time...Happy Birthday! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongLiveTheSmurfRide Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 I was there from about 5 to close. I was pretty surprised how empty it was too. Walk-ons for most of the coasters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Browns Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Happy Birthday, sounds like a good trip. I was thinking that it would probably be a good idea to go to the parks (ki,cp) on the 5th since the 4th is usually so crazy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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