Had a ball today going from 0-120 mph in 4 secs and climbing 420 feet before spiraling back to earth. This after 90 minutes of anticipation. It was worth it. We did old school and new style coasters all day long and had a blast feeling the wind in our hair and our raised hands and yelling our guts out as we took another plunge.
It was supposed to rain today but never did. I ordered the tix online at a coffee shop with free WiFi several miles from our campsite and we never stopped until suppertime (back at camp - chicken salad Vicki whipped up for us after we were whipped.
We rode standing up, or legs dangling, seatbelts securely fastened and holding into our hats over 420 foot and 310 foot crests and down vertical and 80 degree drops at speeds topping (in one case) 93 mph. We got soaked and slung and amazed - high-fiving each other after every ride. Vicki and I were glad for the hour-plus waits that gave us a chance to catch our breath -because each ride took our breath away.
Don't look for a Cedar Point sticker on the back of our trailer, though, because stickers have apparently gone the way of the wooden coaster. We settled instead for a carved wooden sign we can hang from the trailer that says simply: "The Gordy-Stiths" with a pop-up beside it.
Tomorrow morning, we'll pack up and head for the Wisconsin Dells, 480 miles down the road. And on day four, we're heading to Noah's Ark water park!
Some memorable moments: after an hour of waiting, the Top Speed Dragster malfunctioned and they stopped catapulting us 420 feet into the sky. No one left the line, and within 15 minutes they started the ride back up again (after, presumably, repairing it); the announcer at the Mean Streak told us that it was the tallest, fastest, and highest wooden roller coaster in the... Cedar Point park; Joy and Eli played checkers on the porch of the General Store in Frontiertown; Vicki and Joy got drenched so thoroughly that five people asked what the two of them had ridden so that they could avoid it; and everybody did the Cha Cha Slide when the music played while we were waiting in line to ride the Millennium Force.
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