Kings Island can wait 1 hour

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Avatar and family decided to go to Kings Island for the day on Sunday August 27th, 2006.

We need to wake up at 6:00 am on the morning of a Kings Island day trip and leave by 7:30 am to be able to get to Kings Island for the rope drop at 10:00 am (Very important if you want to catch any must do rides before the lines build up later in the day). So the alarm goes off and as I reach for the snooze button I notice it’s still dark, but wait a minute it is almost fall so the clock is right. The next ring of the clock and time to start the routine, nudge wife and no response so into Miss Rae’s room. Well it’s getting just a little lighter out so I can see that she is in one of those deep sleep modes with the mouth wide open and arms extending out over the bed. Our Yorkshire terrier usually watches over her when she sleeps go figure. When he sees me he rolls over, stretches out his arms and tilts his head at me and has a look of were just not ready yet! So I give him a rub on the belly and start to leave the room and as I do so I said softly to myself that Kings Island will haft to wait 1 hour for us today.

So after 1 extra hour everyone is put into the get ready for Kings Island routine mode and everything goes without a hitch. When we arrived I tried to do my PKIC member investigation routine in trying to find out what’s going on (I think I may need to post in the "you know your addicted to PKIC when" thread after this report). Miss Rae made it clear that Avatar was going to be the first ride of the day! We always know if she is ok on a ride because she will scream so loud and it sounds like she is scared to death, so we usually spend the rest of the ride explaining to the concerned passengers that the screaming means she likes it and if she goes silent, that’s when we get concerned. We knew we had a screamer on our hands when the nurses at the hospital keep closing our door when she was born. People who know me well know that this must be a joke from above at my expense. So as we get off the ride and you guessed it the most famous line of all at Nickelodeon Universe, “can we do it again… PLEASE!

From there I decided to take a ride on The Beast, the first trip around was the 1st car 3rd seat and it was a good ride nothing out of the ordinary. Someone had told me to try the back car so I got back on because there was no one sitting in the back car middle seat for the next ride. I will haft to tell you after riding around twice in a row on The Beast really gave me a chance to see if there was a real difference from the front car to the back car and there most definitely is! The back car seemed much more smother and has more air time.

We went over to Boomerang Bay with about a 3rd of the crowd that is normally there, we got seats right by the water so miss Rae could swim by the shore line of the wave pool and we could sit there and watch her from our lounge chairs. After about an hour it started to sprinkle and we could hear a rumble in the far distance. Well that’s all it took so everybody out of the pool and as you may have guessed by now. Avatar’s family it’s your turn to wait 1 hour for Kings Island.

The rest of the day and into the evening went like normal and nothing special except I was really enjoying the family time as miss Rae thought that mother and father should hold hands (kids).. I also wanted to mention that it is now getting darker earlier and when they turn on the lights and it’s really dark out, it really gives a real nice ambiance feel to the park. We finished up by buying some salt water taffy and walking around a little more to enjoy the lights. Then we left for home.

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[The Interpreter]

Awww.

What a wonderful trip report.

And that, my friends, is what memories are made of.

[king_cobra_27]

You know, I don't usually keep reading long reports. Mostly due to the fact (honestly) that most people are not capable of keeping it interesting.

But you know what Avatar? That was a really good report!

You should be a writer or something.

K.C.

[KIBeast]

Yes, great report. Reminds me of my family waking in the wee hours of the morning to get prepared for our Kings Island trip. Only there were seven of us. Our family of five plus my uncles.