King's Island

I was asked to chaperone a middle school choir competition and trip to King's Island this past Saturday for my niece. The competition was boring and long, but our choir did pretty good. I also saw people from my old church that I haven't talked to in a long time.

We arrived at King's Island around 2:00PM. I had to buy my ticket and noticed a sign with prices. At first my eyes almost jumped out of my head. The ticket price was $50.00. Yep, you read that right. I asked the cashier if I could have a discount and she said, "I'll give you a discount." I, stupidly asked her what the discount was for and she said it was spring season, so the prices were cut in half. My ticket was $25.00. Much better than anticipated. We entered and ate lunch because we were starving. What a rip off!!!! $8 bucks for chicken tenders and fries and $3.50 for a water. Needless to say we ate only once.

I haven't been to an amusement park in about four years, so this was pretty fun. We went to Flight of Fear and had a blast. That was an unexpected thrill as the whole coaster is inside. I was upset though because my other niece was asked to step off the ride. She is over weight and they didn't even give her another chance to get back on by herself. She was very hurt, but handled it very well.

We then moved on to Vortex which is one of my all time favorites. This coaster only took 20 minutes to wait and was a fast ride. The girls rode it twice.

Then the girls wanted to get wet, so we went to White Water Canyon. My brother and I walked up to a lookout to watch everyone get soaked. Pretty funny, but too cold this day to have jeans stick to my legs. Yuck!

We moved on to the newer rides like Delirium and Drop Zone. I chickened out. I don't like the fact that only electro-magnets keep you from plumetting to your death. Delirium was just super insano and I totally wimped out. I played the watching game and laughed as my family screamed their heads off. We went to the Top Gun coaster because the girls wanted to ride Drop Zone again. We got inside the ride and found nobody there waiting to ride. We sat in the front seat and it was a fun, fast, and smooth ride. I loved it!! I guess I'm a coaster geek. The new thrill rides just aren't my bag. We asked to ride twice and they told us as long as no one was waiting for our seat. We had to move back one car, but immediately went again on the same coaster. The park closed and we left to eat some cheaper food around 8:00PM.

I must say, I love Cedar Point much better than King's Island. Largely due to the fact that they have more, better coasters. We still had a lot of fun. The rides are pretty good, but they had a lot of technical problems and Son of Beast was down.

And Cedar Point is closer to Michigan......