Day 5 - Sandusky (Cedar Point)

Today Ryan and I met with our good friends the Henderson’s (Ashley, Katie, and David) and we spent the entire day at Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH. We started the day off on the right foot when we overslept our alarm waking up to Ashley knocking on our door. Luckily, since we are boys Ryan and I threw all of our stuff in the suitcase and were good to go in 10 minutes. We really wanted to get to the park by 9am and take advantage of the extra hour that we were given because we stayed at a resort affiliated with Cedar Point. So, we piled everything into the car and set out for the park. Ryan for some odd reason thought that we had to go right to get the park. In reality we just needed to make a left and go 1.5 mile up the road. Not sure why he thought we had to go right, because we ate at Famous Dave’s the night before which is inside the park. Oh and a side note about Famous Dave’s, service sucks, ribs are horrible, and I’d rather go to Smoky Bones anyway.

Anyhow, let’s get back to what we did at Cedar Point. Roller Coasters, roller coasters, and more roller coasters. Ryan and I, along with the Henderson’s managed to go on every single roller coaster at Cedar Point. We did 13 coasters in all and these include Blue Streak (wooden), Raptor (steel), Iron Dragon (steel), Mantis (steel), Millennium Force (steel), Maverick (steel), Mean Streak (wooden), Gemini (wooden), Top Thrill Dragster (steel), Corkscrew (steel), Magnum (steel), Disaster Transport (steel), and Wicked Twister (steel). Some of the other rides that we did were the lazy train (needed a little break from the coasters), space spiral, and the Ferris wheel. Honestly, the scariest part of the day was when all of us were at the top of the Ferris wheel and it was shaking from the wind and passengers at the bottom getting on. Weird, that the Ferris wheel would be the scariest thing we did all day, but it’s no lie.

So the coasters at Cedar Point were pretty freakin’ sweet. My favorite is probably a toss-up between Millennium Force and Magnum but that is because I am pretty partial to the steel coasters that go really high and really fast. However, riding Top Thrill Dragster was quite the experience. This coaster only lasts like 45 seconds but they shoot you up to a speed of like 90mph and you corkscrew to the top and then corkscrew back down to the bottom. For those of you who have been to Six Flags in NJ, it is exactly like Kingda Ka. I was also a big fan of the roller coaster Corkscrew and Maverick mainly because I had never done coasters like them and they deceptively scary. Unfortunately, I don’t have any photos of Cedar Point because I was afraid to bring my camera and lose it. If you are even remotely a roller coaster fan I would definitely make a special trip out to Sandusky, OH to go to Cedar Point.

After all of the excitement of the day the Henderson’s, Ryan and I all had dinner at the TGI Fridays on the beach. It was a very nice finish to quite a long, but very fun and exciting day. Again, at TGI Friday’s we had bad service, but at least the food was good. Honestly, we have had horrible service and non-friendly servers for the entire trip. Ok, so now Ryan and I are making the drive to Chicago which is about a 5 hour drive from Sandusky. We are going to be there visiting a family friend for the next 3 days. Check back later for fun from the Sears Tower, Lock Tour, and information about the Taste of Chicago. Till then, aurevoir.