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(I’ve got a nice sunburn to prove it)

Yesterday was the day that I got to experience Cedar Point. Amazing.

It takes about two hours to drive from Columbus to Sandusky, and we rented a 15-passenger van to get our group up to the park. There were actually 19 of us, so there was another car in the caravan for the trip. I was in the party bus, as we called it, and there were plenty of laughs to go around. There were two girls sitting right behind me that had SO much energy that they kept the rest of us fully entertained for the whole drive, and then still for the rest of the day and the drive home. I laughed really hard almost the entire way to and from the park.

So once we got to the park, we took a group picture and headed off to the rollercoasters. The Millenium Force was the first on our list, as it is one of the rides that gives Cedar Point its popularity. Millenium Force was a fun ride, but it’s not exactly the type of ride that I gets me excited. It’s made of steel, but it doesn’t have any flips. But, it does start off with a 310-foot drop at 80-degrees. Quite impressive.

Next up was a series of rides, which included the Mantis (fun!) and the Magnum XL-200 (way fun!). The Mantis has lots of flips and corkscrews, which is TOTALLY my cup o’ tea, and the Magnum is WAY more exciting than it looks from the ground. And, in fact, when I got into the car for the Magnum, I totally expected it to be a really tame ride. Boy, I was (pleasantly) suprised!

For some reason, we got bored of riding all of the rides that started with “m,” so we made our way over to the Gemini, a wooden rollercoaster with some attitude. Again, the up-and-down rides aren’t so exciting to me, so the Gemini was just okay. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t exactly my favorite.

After relaxing on a few of the tamer rides, the Iron Dragon and Whiches’ Wheel, we started to hit-up all of the really exciting rides. I don’t recall the order, but here are the three:

Raptor: TONS of fun. It’s similar to the Batman rides at Six Flags, so you sit in a seat with a harness over your shoulders, but your feet get to dangle throughout the ride. It spins, flips, winds, drops, and races through it’s course. I loved it!

Top Thrill Dragster: Not exactly my favorite, but I don’t know that I’ll ever again go 140+ miles per hour in such a short period of time. And by “short,” I mean that I hit that in just a couple seconds at the beginning of this ride. It’s supposed to give riders the experience of drag racing, but then they take go ahead and make the track go straight up and then straight back down before slowing to a stop. It was definitely something that I won’t forget any time soon.

Maverick: This ride won an award for the best rollercoaster in the year 2007. It was incredible. I don’t even know how to begin describing it ’cause I’m still excited about it. It was SOOO much fun.

So, overall, the trip was a complete sucess. The park rocks, and the people wer tons of fun. Now if I can only get past this stupid sunburn…

For your viewing pleasure, here are a couple of videos from Cedar Point. You can watch these and other similar vids from the Cedar Point website, which is where the above links will take you.

Maverick:
 

 

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