8/15

[BoddaH1994]

I got to the park around 7:00 or so. I figured that I would get enough ride time in to be worth my drive from Northern KY. When I arrived in the park, I noticed that a good portion of the parking lot was full. I counted on that seeing as to how it was a Saturday evening.

When we first entered the park, we decided to ride Adventure Express first. The reason behind that was because the sign outside listed it as being closed for the day, and it was kind of one of those "don't want it until you can't have it" situations. Of course it was opened reguardless of what the sign said. I've never known those info signs to be extremely accurate anyway. I assumed that it would be the usual walk-on. Well, in all reality, I ended up waiting for it for almost 20 mins. It doesn't sound like a lot, but in comparison to the rest of the season (excluding BAFF days) the line was extremely long. I'm sure if it wasn't for the 110% awsome crew that runs that ride, the wait would have been much longer.

Anyway, after that, we headed over to Rivertown to ride The Beast. The line was also extremely long as expected, so we continued to walk through RT. We eventually just ride the train to Water Works and back. The train ride was interesting because I hadn't ridden it in five or so years and it was dark, so it was like a mini trek through the woods.

After our train ride, we headed over to The Vortex. The line was about to the end of the fence--not bad at all. While in line, this drunk guy started talking to me and my brother. He first refused to believe that my brother and I are related (despite the fact that we have been mistaken for eachother several times) and then tried to hook me up with his sister. Oh yeah, I should mention that his sister was probably about 25 years older than me. After about a 20 min wait, we finally got to ride.

After The Vortex, we decided that it was dark, so no matter what, it was time for The Beast. My brother and I came to find out that The Beast's line was much shorter than before. It seemed to be about a half hour wait...boy was I wrong. Every single darn queue was opened! The line went to about the drink machines, and due to the queues, was about a two hour wait! I know I'm *****ing a lot, but I guess I've been spoiled by the near walk-ons this season. Anyway, after we got off the ride, we were walking down the exit and there was a skunk under the track where the train exits the station. I just thought that was cool because I'd never seen one in the wild before.

We had about 15 mins until the park closed, so we decided to try our luck on Delirium. Fortunately, only 2 queue lines were opened, so the wait wasn't more than about a half hour. Of course, the wait would have been about 10 mins had the whole speal "You will be assigned a seat number, please sit in that seat and only that seat" not been too lofy of a concept for some of the guests.

I always thought that they should make you take an IQ test before entering the park. If you score below a 50, then you have to stay in Nicelodean Central. Those are the people who sit in the wrong seats on Delirium, step on the fenders on The Vortex, line jump, lose control of their basketballs, etc, etc, etc.

Anyway, the fireworks went off while we were on the ride, which is always cool. I guess normally I would have been slightly disappointed with the day, but I hadn't been to the park in nearly 3 weeks.

So, I heard you guys post for months now to avoid Saturdays. Well, I realize that you guys weren't kidding now. I figured the park would die down between 8 and 9 or so, but boy was I wrong.

[Dane]

After our train ride, we headed over to The Vortex. The line was about to the end of the fence--not bad at all. While in line, this drunk guy started talking to me and my brother. He first refused to believe that my brother and I are related (despite the fact that we have been mistaken for eachother several times) and then tried to hook me up with his sister. Oh yeah, I should mention that his sister was probably about 25 years older than me. After about a 20 min wait, we finally got to ride.

Bet you felt akward.

[BoddaH1994]

^^^ Oh yeah, and the worst part of all is that he was so persistant about it. I mean, it wasn't like "Hey, you should go out with my sister" it went on and on for about 15 mins! Oh well, it was entertaining. It made the line go faster. At one point in the conversation that I had with him before he "introduced" me to his sister, I mentioned that I was a gold pass holder. So later on he was like "You need to talk to this guy! He's really nice, and he's a gold pass holder!"