Karen and I are always looking online for good park entrance deals. Try as I might I could not get the online ticket price but noticed they had a voucher for buy one get one free. So I printed it to a PDF and got it on my phone and when I got to the gate they accepted it and for $39 for both of us we were in the gate.
Today is windy and in the 50's and we're all bundled up. Rides open at 10:30am and we take a few pictures before getting in line for G Force, a short ride with a first for us - a chain lift that drags the coaster car upside down. The chain lift ends about where the second car is.
They really keep you in tight in your seat for this ride.
That's the whole ride layout.
We next rode a stand up coaster, Shock Wave, where you stand up while you ride. They give you a bicycle seat to strandle and then lock you in across your chest to give you something to hold on to. You are secure enough to do loops and corkscrews - which we did.
Ben 10 must be a local cartoon character. This coaster ride is themed to him. The coaster cars are dragged up the lower rail and then let go and the train travels throught the station and around some twisty track and then reverses up the upper track there and back into the station.
The weirdly named Buffalo Roller Coaster is no named because it has a buffalo on the front of the train.
It is a powered coaster meaning it doesn't go up a hill and then use gravity to get it back to the station. It drives itself around the track. This is the longest one of these we've ever been on.
Lunch for Pat was a chicken pot pie.
They also had a cute western-themed shoot at the targets ride called Golden Nugget Wild West Shoot Out.
Another first for us was a standup drop tower. You stood on this ride, they tilted the seats slightly forward, then they lifted you 150' into the air and let it fall by gravity. Fortunately, they stop it before it hits the ground.
We saw a very good 4D movie called the Little Prince. The father tells the child a bedtime story and the child continues the story in his dreams.
We took the train around the park and through the woods to see areas of the Park that we might have missed (like the backsides of the river raft ride).
They had a land based around the Thomas the Train character. There was a lot of things for the kids to do.
We left the park and headed for our next hotel.
While looking for dinner we found where they hide the canal boats when they aren't on the canal.
In another week we'll be piloting one of these babies for a full week.
And just for our friends, Doug and Betty, a block away from our hotel tonight is the Brittania Stadium, home of Stoke City Potters soccer club since 1863.
You guys are just having too much fun. Wish I was there to enjoy it with you...dad
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