Sob2.0's KI Special Surprise TR! 4/25/2014

[Sonofbeast2.0]

For starters this will be a fairly shorter TR with no pictures, and i'm only doing this because of the rarity of said events. This will be mostly riding rides with my little nephews but I did mange to go ride some bigger rides of my own and man am I glad I did! We got at the park right around 4:30pm.

Boo's Blaster on Boo's Hill: Rode this first as soon as we got to the park, this ride was rather upsetting and boring... Their was like a total of 3 moving things working the whole ride, everything else was not working. This made me actually rather upset.

♫Shake Rattle & Roll♫: My nephew is tall enough this year to ride any 44in rides and he rode Shake Rattle and Roll with me. He liked it at first, kind of got scared, then liked it at the very end. Needless to say he would probably ride it again with me.

Larosa's pizza: This is the one right in-between BLSC and The Beast, we have the year long dining plan and got 2 slices of cheese pizza and 2 bread sticks with it. The pizza wasn't very warm, but it tasted good none the less! We were gonna ride BLSC afterwards but it was still in the process of opening up.

Diamondback: Waited about 8min in line for it, the lady right behind me was talking about it and said their is seat belts on it now... This actually really depressed me then and I thought this would kind of ruin the ride. Now I get to where I see the station, (this is part 1 of the surprise!) I seen Greg Scheid! I wanted to say something to him so bad, but him being in the station and me just stopping in the station, would be kind of rude... (he was over on the exit side too) I seen him talking to someone and I couldn't believe who it was! I had to take a double look! It was Matt Ouimet! Really wanted to talk to him but he was standing right outside the exit and that also would of been kind of rude due to location. As according to CF biography on him, he is 55 years old. Well let me tell you this, he looks in really great shape and very energetic! Him and Greg Scheid were in casual everyday clothes and only an enthusiast, would of noticed either one of them. But this really tickled me and made my day! Especially since I've never seen Matt in person! Still have never gotten the chance to talk to either of them too... So I get on the ride now all excited, still sadden by the seat belt part though... Found out thought the seat belt has no/little effect on airtime so I was happy about that ride was also smooth, like always! So we roll back into the station and I see Greg and Matt are still their (part 2 of surprise!). I was trying to think of any possible outcome of getting a chance to talk to one or both of them, but nothing came to mind that wouldn't of been rude or something. Well Matt is standing their and then he yells something like "come on!" Little did I know but I was riding DB with Matt's family! At first I was like okay that confirms it wasn't him but i keep thinking over and over again, that first, who would come up threw the exit and stand and talk to Greg threw several ride cycles? secondly, how many people look like Matt Ouimet and visit KI? After I finally came to that conclusion, that I just rode with some of Matt's family on DB! This is like the most exciting thing that has ever happened to me! I wanted to go hunt him down and say something so bad, but ounce his family got off they ran literately ran off. ( I was riding in row 10)

Planet Snoopy: After this I went and rode some rides with my nephews in Planet Snoopy. Took my one nephew for the first time on Surf Dog and he loved it! they were having a blast and had a great time! This also made my day even better as they were having fun and had a smile on their face!

The Beast: Loved The Beast like always and sat towards the back. I kind of wished/hoping they would of gave the ride something special for being 35 years old, but didn't see anything...

BLSC: It was now open and I went and rode it and all the police lights were working, the helicopter scene was working like it does any other day, second row on this.

Why oh why!: Apparently my brother a nd my nephews thought it would be a great idea to ride "Race for Your Life Charlie Brown"... Well they all rode it one time before it got over their (just got off BLSC and headed all the way back to kiddie land...), and they barely got wet. Well this ride was FULL of water! Like if it was much higher it would of been flooding over. The water also seemed to be moving much faster than normal. So we go up the first hill and everything was fine until we hit that wall of water right before the second hill and well got pretty good and wet... Also would be worth noting it was only 65 deg outside... now were going up the final hill and when we hit the water, I WAS SOAKED! Like I probably would of stayed dry better on White Water Canyon!

After that my nephew wanted to ride "Flying Ace Ariel Chase", in the front seat... we did so and man was that chilly! then rode "Boo's Blaster's on Boo's Hill" one last time and all effects were working and then after that we were tired,cold and wet and went home.

Overall: It was a great visit to the park, even although I only rode 3 "big" rides. But the surprise at DB really helped make my day! Also was nice to see my nephews happy!