We finally checked an item off our summer bucket list. We
had this on last summer’s list but it didn’t happen. It might have been better
because Keely has now grown tall enough to ride every single ride with no
exceptions, a fact that makes her so happy and makes it easier for us. We
arrived on a Sunday right after opening to almost no lines on the coasters. We
rode 8 of 9 of their major coasters in under 2 hours, some of them more than
once because there were no lines. It was dizzying and a lot of fun, but it’s
hard to keep up with the kids who seem not to be bothered by motion sickness at
all. James didn’t fare so well, having to sit out for a few coasters but I
continued to ride with the kids. 
We even let them ride one together by
themselves, something that now makes me cringe because of what happened later
that afternoon – that same coaster was stuck at the top of the ride at an angle
for over 5 hours with 24 passengers. It was a high angle rescue that required
many fire trucks and police and medical support. Luckily, no one was hurt but I
can only imagine how I would have felt on the ground as my kids were stuck up
on the coaster. Luckily, that wasn’t the case so our only affect was that they
closed many of the coasters because of the trapped riders – understandably. We
were mostly done by that point and so we headed home happy and having had a lot
of fun. Our next amusement park is King’s Dominion; a little further away but a
lot of fun from what I remember when I visited each year in college.
