{"id":1182,"date":"2012-07-03T02:53:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T02:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2012-07-03T02:53:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T02:53:53","slug":"2012-summer-vacation-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2012\/07\/03\/2012-summer-vacation-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Summer Vacation, Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sign at the entrance to Cedar Point<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We spent the second day of our vacation at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio. \u00a0I hadn’t been to Cedar Point if almost 30 years. \u00a0When we were kids Cedar Point seemed to be the place you went if you couldn’t go somewhere better. \u00a0Over the years, I’ve seen Cedar Point mentioned a number of times on the Discovery Channel for having the best, fastest, highest, or some other -est roller coaster in the world.<\/p>\n

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Now THAT's a handsome family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Both of you who read my blog may remember me ranting a bit about Six Flags New England and how disappointed I was. \u00a0That’s why we scheduled Cedar Point early in the vacation — so if it was bad, it wouldn’t be the culminating event of this year’s vacation. \u00a0I told Candy before we started that this was the part of the trip I was least looking forward to. \u00a0We really had a good time. \u00a0The roller coasters were fun. \u00a0The park was immaculately clean. \u00a0The food was terrific and reasonably priced. \u00a0The workers were pleasant and all spoke English. \u00a0Even the patrons were largely well behaved.<\/p>\n

For the week of Fourth of July, Cedar Point was giving free admission to active duty military and their families. \u00a0That was a very pleasant surprise. \u00a0Since we had the admission money budgeted, we decided to use it pay for Fastlane \u00a0passes for all of us. \u00a0That meant we got to move to the head of the line for most rides. \u00a0As a result we rode everything we wanted before the bad weather rolled in — more on that later.<\/p>\n

I remember the Corkscrew, Gemini, and Blue Streak being the roller coasters of choice. \u00a0At one point they said that the Corkscrew was built in 1976. \u00a0Wow, did I feel old. \u00a0These rides are now sort of pass\u00e9, replaced by Millennium Force (the number one steel coaster in the world several years running), Mean Streak (which might be the \u00a0best wooden roller coaster I’ve ever ridden), and others.<\/p>\n

Halfway through riding the Mean Streak wooden roller coaster, Candy discovered that her glasses were missing (from where she had been shoving them inside her shirt all day during rides). \u00a0She found them under her shirt, but when we got off the roller coaster, she realized that one of the lenses was missing. \u00a0We got right back on the ride. \u00a0Because it wasn’t crowded, we waited for the correct color train and got in the exact same seats. \u00a0She found her lens! \u00a0That’s what comes of clean living.<\/p>\n

As we were getting off our last coaster for the day, a huge storm rolled through the area. \u00a0We took cover in a cookie shop — requiring us to spend some cash on giant cookies. \u00a0We just HAD to do it. \u00a0I have never been in an amusement park during hail (the size of grapes), so that was a unique experience. \u00a0After they made the decision to cancel the evening entertainment, we left the park about an hour before closing. \u00a0The bad weather only served to cut out the kids’ time to re-ride their favorite rides from earlier in the day; we had gone on everything once.<\/p>\n

\"Amusing<\/a>
Amusing weather at the amusement park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cedar Point was a far superior experience to our visit to Six Flags New England last Summer. \u00a0It was a really nice second day of vacation.<\/p>\n

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We spent the second day of our vacation at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio. \u00a0I hadn’t been to Cedar Point if almost 30 years. \u00a0When we were kids Cedar Point seemed to be the place you went if you couldn’t go somewhere better. \u00a0Over the years, I’ve seen Cedar Point mentioned a number … Continue reading 2012 Summer Vacation, Day 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}