Cedar Point, Sandusky Ohio

Our plan when visiting Joe and Carol was to head to Cedar Point one of the days, but we didn’t care which one. Based off the World Cup game and heading off on the boat, the days were limited and we choose today.

The weather was predicted to be partly cloudy but windy so there would be a chance that some or the rides would be closed.

It was a hour 45 min drive so we got there about 11am. Luckily we didn’t arrive at opening at 10am as it was pouring then. When we got there it was sprinkling and some of the rides were open.

Cedar Point is on Lake Erie and was opened in 1870, being the 2nd oldest operating amusement park in the United States. It is now known to be the “ Roller Coaster capital of the world”. Today it has 18 operating roller coasters.

My favourite was Millennium force which is a the 8th tallest and fastest at 310 feet in the world. Brandon went on Top Thrill 2 at the end of the day (as it was closed for most of it) and that is the third tallest and fastest at 420 feet tall and 120mph

Inara’s favourite was the newest roller coaster Sirens Curse, which is North America's tallest, longest, and fastest tilt coaster, featuring a 160-foot lift, a 90-degree vertical holding tilt, a top speed of 58 mph, and two zero-g barrel roll inversions. It stayed straight up for 5 seconds.

We weren’t originally going to go on this as last week it had a few issues and was stuck straight up with people on it. Brandon made a good point that the safety mechanisms did what they were supposed to do and didn’t proceed with the roller coaster.

After riding millennium force and how smooth and fast it was, I needed to see how smooth Sirens curse was as it looked sooo smooth.

As not all the rides were opened, the lines were super long and it was probably the most we waited out of any of the other amusement parks. We did meet two young adults who just finished first year of college, Tegan and Merli who are season passers. We ended up playing Charades with them on their phone and went on a few different roller coasters with them. They definitely made the waiting go faster.

At one point we passed a Glass Blowing demonstration and Brandon was immersed in it so Inara and I continued on riding all the roller coasters we could.

Inara and I attempted a few times to line up for Steel Vengeance but it always seems to have closed for issues. It was supposed to be an awesome roller coaster so at like 9pm I told Inara this is our last chance and we did it, loved it and ran to Magnum for our last roller coaster. That was the worst to end on and made me feel sick.

While we were running to make Magnum by 10pm line close, Brandon was in line for Top Thrill 2 and 45 min after the line closed he finished up in the front row.

We rode the following on the 11 hours:
Blue Streak
Iron Dragon
Millennium Force
Sirens Curse
Rougaraou
Magnum Xl
Maverick
Steel Vengeance
Gemini
Top Thrill 2
Skyhawk (not a coaster)Leggi altro