Hello!
This weekend was Labor weekend, so we had Monday off (long weekends FTW!)
So, what do you do when you have a long weekend? You take a spontaneous road-trip to a theme park, oh yes!
Me and this lovely group of friends from church here headed up north towards Chicago (I saw the city skyline for the first time, it's wonderful!) to go and explore the 6 flags theme park.
It was SO much fun!
To ease me into the experience of American roller-coasters, my friends thought that the 'Raging Bull' would be a good place to start...
Now I like roller-coasters, but this was a beast! It was actually terrifying, although by the end of the day we'd been on it about 3 or 4 times, it's such a thrill!
We went on all sorts, the Batman was fun because you were kind of underneath the track if that makes sense; Superman was great too since they tilted you like you were flying, it was similar to Air at Thorpe Park if you've been there!
There was a backwards wooden one, called Viper, which I certainly didn't like, it was rickety and bumpy and well, just generally scary even though it was far from the biggest ride there!
My favourite one was perhaps Xflight, because it was really smooth and interesting because you were on either side of the track, so it felt more like you were flying!
I also tried an American treat called Dippin' dots. They're really cool and weird, it's basically ice-cream that's been frozen somehow into like little round BB gun pellet things, they spoon a mound into a plastic cup and you scoop them up; they taste just like ice-cream but have a different beginning consistency!
I'll include some links to YouTube of the crazy roller-coasters I experienced if you fancy a view!
Cheryl
P.s some of the voice-overs/screams in these YouTube videos are hilarious... enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MlXkF85e7A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miwGyYCy-yw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM8DxuEoCrc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPpne1qsK94
This weekend was Labor weekend, so we had Monday off (long weekends FTW!)
So, what do you do when you have a long weekend? You take a spontaneous road-trip to a theme park, oh yes!
Me and this lovely group of friends from church here headed up north towards Chicago (I saw the city skyline for the first time, it's wonderful!) to go and explore the 6 flags theme park.
It was SO much fun!
To ease me into the experience of American roller-coasters, my friends thought that the 'Raging Bull' would be a good place to start...
Now I like roller-coasters, but this was a beast! It was actually terrifying, although by the end of the day we'd been on it about 3 or 4 times, it's such a thrill!
We went on all sorts, the Batman was fun because you were kind of underneath the track if that makes sense; Superman was great too since they tilted you like you were flying, it was similar to Air at Thorpe Park if you've been there!
There was a backwards wooden one, called Viper, which I certainly didn't like, it was rickety and bumpy and well, just generally scary even though it was far from the biggest ride there!
My favourite one was perhaps Xflight, because it was really smooth and interesting because you were on either side of the track, so it felt more like you were flying!
I also tried an American treat called Dippin' dots. They're really cool and weird, it's basically ice-cream that's been frozen somehow into like little round BB gun pellet things, they spoon a mound into a plastic cup and you scoop them up; they taste just like ice-cream but have a different beginning consistency!
I'll include some links to YouTube of the crazy roller-coasters I experienced if you fancy a view!
Cheryl
P.s some of the voice-overs/screams in these YouTube videos are hilarious... enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MlXkF85e7A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miwGyYCy-yw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM8DxuEoCrc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPpne1qsK94
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