K and M mug for the camera on the midway at Cedar Point.
Yesterday, Laurie joined the four of us as we waded into the sea of humanity that is Cedar Point on a Saturday. The boys had never been there, and neither J nor I had been there in 26 years. I went quite a few times when I was in middle and high school, so I vaguely remembered where a few of the rides were, but so much has changed that many parts were unrecognizable.
Things have certainly gotten bigger, higher, and faster. The highest roller coaster at Cedar Point when I was last there was 125 feet. The highest one now is 310 feet. They now have coasters where the cars hang down from the track instead of riding on them, ones where you ride off to the side of the track, so you’re just “flying” in the air, and some where you go so fast, time reverses and you have the opportunity to order something different for lunch.
This is the Power Tower. You sit in a chair on a car that goes way up, either really fast, or really slow, and then you drop. The tower appears to be about 11,000 feet tall.
This is the Top Speed Dragster. The cars are launched at 120 mph (really), climb one side of the u-shaped track, and then come down the other side. When on this ride, the direction of blood flow in your body briefly reverses, then quickly switches back. (That may not be true, but this thing cannot possibly be good for you.)
M and Laurie are in this car nearing the top of the classic coaster The Blue Streak.
J and K can be seen in their car nearing the top of the first hill on The Gemini.
You know those carnival games they have, the ones that are rigged so you can’t win? M won the same game not once, but twice, collecting two massive stuffed frogs. Fortunately, we were about to leave the park when these were won, because they don’t let these things on the rides.
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