BLACKHEART
06-10-2002, 12:54 PM
While on vacation we made a stop in Ohio to visit Paramount Parks Kings Island. Ohio what a wonderful place. I would have never thought in a million years that there would be a place where the water would taste worse than New Jersey.
The water actually tastes better in Jersey. How is this possible? Ohio has to be the most boring state I have ever been to and I never plan on going back. It is mass fileds of nothing. Miles of nothing on top of miles of nothing. Every sign on the high way pointed to one of four cities. The four cities that have sports teams. There was nothing and more nothing. I didn't even see a mall.
Needless to say we didn't stop anywhere in Ohio other than the park. We went to the park and then we got out of there as fast as possible. Why is it to me that everyone in Ohio just seemed slow and dumb?
Maybe if you live in a big city Ohio isn't that bad but other than that I do not see how any one can live there. You don't even know how many endless miles of nothing we encountered.
Now on to the park
The park wasn't that bad. The reason for traveling to Ohio and this park was to ride the world's only wooden looping roller coaster. Think about it. A wooden roller coaster that loops. Something doesn't seem right about that. That was Son of the Beast.
Then there was the Beast which is a huge wooden roller coaster. I forget how high the drops were, but it was big. The Son of the Beast was even bigger. The best part of this coaster was when it hit the side of a tunnel. Just the car I was in hit the wall. Only I seemed to notice the wooden coaster smacking against the wall.
The final wooden roller coaster in this trilogy is called the Beastie. It is the smallest of the three wooden coasters. Not bad if you just want to work your way up.
There was one called the Racer. I'm not sure if it was wooden or not. Seemed wooden to me but I don't know for sure. The racer has two cars on the track at the same time going in different directions. One foward and the other backwards. At times this coaster actually left the tracks it was going so fast.
The vortex just lives up to the name. Nothing grand.
Face Off we didn't ride because someone died on it. It was a free feet coaster that went foward then came back in reverse.
Reptor Raptor or whatever it was called was the same kind of ride only it didn't go backwards. It was named after some Green Dino on Nik.
The Outer Limits Flight of Fear was another one where your feet dangled and you thought you were going to hit things only it was in the dark. Supposed to be scary I guess. **YAWN**
We did some log ride... She likes them. **YAWN** Ride around like a coaster and plunge into water.
White Water Cannon was the first ride we did and we got very soaked. She was wearing a white t-shirt. You can use your imagination. :)
Viking Ship which everyone in the world has riden once. Ship swings back and forth.
Spider, Octo, spinning cars, Galvatron all of those rides. I'll just put them together. Been there done that.
Adventure Express was another roller coaster. Not bad but a big let down. There was a big build up when we went slowly up a hill with some statues taunting us. We expected a big drop but instead were taken to the launch zone.
Tomb Raider the ride. How could I forget this one? You had to have total control of your neck and arms to ride this one. There were so many safey guidelines for this ride when there was nothing for other rides. Don't do this. Don't do that. If you can't do this then don't ride the ride blah blah blah. It was indoors like Flight of Fear. Same kind of coaster. Kind of blah.
Didn't mess with the Drop Zone. For some reason I don't want to see my heart shoot out of my chest. It was one of those go up 500 feet then get dropped down rides. Not my cup of tea.
Then there was one of those things that shoots you into the air. You sit in a ball and then they launch you 1000 feet into the air like a sling shot and you spin around for awhile. Forget that.
Congo was a ride where you just got wet. You went around getting shot with water and then you were dropped a couple hundred feet into water. Big deal.
There were other things but they aren't sticking out out. We didn't go to the water park. We took a train ride which had to be the worst exprience of my life. Some hick kept telling corn jokes. It was very much Ohio. I hate how hill billy's talk and he was the personification of what I abhor.
This was an event where my girlfriend had fun with girls checking me out as opposed to what happened at Outback Steak House the other night. Some girl, I would say 16, but she was saying 18 checked me out on the Octopus thing. She had braces. It was funny. The ride took forever to get down once we were done. She was sitting in the arm infront of us. She had her back. She looked at me and then she did one of those little pull the hair down-shake things. It was funny. She got caught looking every time. I wish I had pictures of that.
Has anyone else been to Kings Island?
The water actually tastes better in Jersey. How is this possible? Ohio has to be the most boring state I have ever been to and I never plan on going back. It is mass fileds of nothing. Miles of nothing on top of miles of nothing. Every sign on the high way pointed to one of four cities. The four cities that have sports teams. There was nothing and more nothing. I didn't even see a mall.
Needless to say we didn't stop anywhere in Ohio other than the park. We went to the park and then we got out of there as fast as possible. Why is it to me that everyone in Ohio just seemed slow and dumb?
Maybe if you live in a big city Ohio isn't that bad but other than that I do not see how any one can live there. You don't even know how many endless miles of nothing we encountered.
Now on to the park
The park wasn't that bad. The reason for traveling to Ohio and this park was to ride the world's only wooden looping roller coaster. Think about it. A wooden roller coaster that loops. Something doesn't seem right about that. That was Son of the Beast.
Then there was the Beast which is a huge wooden roller coaster. I forget how high the drops were, but it was big. The Son of the Beast was even bigger. The best part of this coaster was when it hit the side of a tunnel. Just the car I was in hit the wall. Only I seemed to notice the wooden coaster smacking against the wall.
The final wooden roller coaster in this trilogy is called the Beastie. It is the smallest of the three wooden coasters. Not bad if you just want to work your way up.
There was one called the Racer. I'm not sure if it was wooden or not. Seemed wooden to me but I don't know for sure. The racer has two cars on the track at the same time going in different directions. One foward and the other backwards. At times this coaster actually left the tracks it was going so fast.
The vortex just lives up to the name. Nothing grand.
Face Off we didn't ride because someone died on it. It was a free feet coaster that went foward then came back in reverse.
Reptor Raptor or whatever it was called was the same kind of ride only it didn't go backwards. It was named after some Green Dino on Nik.
The Outer Limits Flight of Fear was another one where your feet dangled and you thought you were going to hit things only it was in the dark. Supposed to be scary I guess. **YAWN**
We did some log ride... She likes them. **YAWN** Ride around like a coaster and plunge into water.
White Water Cannon was the first ride we did and we got very soaked. She was wearing a white t-shirt. You can use your imagination. :)
Viking Ship which everyone in the world has riden once. Ship swings back and forth.
Spider, Octo, spinning cars, Galvatron all of those rides. I'll just put them together. Been there done that.
Adventure Express was another roller coaster. Not bad but a big let down. There was a big build up when we went slowly up a hill with some statues taunting us. We expected a big drop but instead were taken to the launch zone.
Tomb Raider the ride. How could I forget this one? You had to have total control of your neck and arms to ride this one. There were so many safey guidelines for this ride when there was nothing for other rides. Don't do this. Don't do that. If you can't do this then don't ride the ride blah blah blah. It was indoors like Flight of Fear. Same kind of coaster. Kind of blah.
Didn't mess with the Drop Zone. For some reason I don't want to see my heart shoot out of my chest. It was one of those go up 500 feet then get dropped down rides. Not my cup of tea.
Then there was one of those things that shoots you into the air. You sit in a ball and then they launch you 1000 feet into the air like a sling shot and you spin around for awhile. Forget that.
Congo was a ride where you just got wet. You went around getting shot with water and then you were dropped a couple hundred feet into water. Big deal.
There were other things but they aren't sticking out out. We didn't go to the water park. We took a train ride which had to be the worst exprience of my life. Some hick kept telling corn jokes. It was very much Ohio. I hate how hill billy's talk and he was the personification of what I abhor.
This was an event where my girlfriend had fun with girls checking me out as opposed to what happened at Outback Steak House the other night. Some girl, I would say 16, but she was saying 18 checked me out on the Octopus thing. She had braces. It was funny. The ride took forever to get down once we were done. She was sitting in the arm infront of us. She had her back. She looked at me and then she did one of those little pull the hair down-shake things. It was funny. She got caught looking every time. I wish I had pictures of that.
Has anyone else been to Kings Island?