CEDAR POINT!!

We went to Cedar Point this Sunday...so much fun!!


First the night before I tried to update my iPhone to version 4.0...pain in the butt...I was still trying to do it before we left...finally got it by having to restore my phone to factory settings (that's seriously stressful) and then backing it up again...took 4 hours!!  I was soooo grateful that I didn't lose any of my apps, songs, media or phone numbers, etc!!

Then our awesome sitter/dog sitter/ house sitter Jessica came over and got her instructions for watching the beasts....she did a GREAT job by the way...Thanks again, Jess!!


After that we loaded up the car and got ready to leave....Thank Heavens we have our new Jeep Commandeer...or we would never have had enough room for all this crap!

While this was going on....Brian was leaving a little art work in the kitchen;

Thats Zach and Madalyne on the Blue Streak, me taking a pic, Brian eating a corndog and Andy holding Jack and a balloon :-)


Here's a view of the car packing from in the car...

Kids are excited...Brian is wondering how he's going to see out of the back window...obviously..he's not!


We were about halfway there when I took these pics:
Zach making gum teeth:

Madalyne excited!!

Brian thinking, "Why do you insist on taking pictures of me driving...while using your flash"??!! opps....sorry:

Me and Zach (in the background still working on making gum teeth)

Side note:  The chances of this happening are soooo slim...and yet they did:  Andy, Jack and the trailer left from South Bend, we left from Goshen...Andy and I started texting and realized that we were actually only 3 miles apart on the Toll Road...crazy!  So we met up at a rest area in Ohio, had lunch and then went tandem from there...worked out really well!


We got to the campground at Cedar Point, checked in and started setting up;

Madalyne was helping soooo much that we decided that she and Zach should take a break and go swimming.....ok.....actually...Brian kindly took the kids swimming before Andy and I lost our minds!

How cool is is to go swimming with the Mean Streak going behind you!!  The pool at the campground also had a small splash pad that the kids loved!!

Madalyne was getting her groove on!!


The kids and Brian swam for awhile, Andy and I set up the trailer, put away food stuffs, etc and took Jack for a walk....then it was 5pm and we could go into Cedar Point with our Starlight passes!  
This is also where we make a fatal mistake.....the kids saw the first line and wanted to go in...it was for the Magnum....we rode it....we got off with two crying kids and one of them desperately trying not to vomit!!  All we heard about for days is how they were going to ride everything that they could....they've both been on other roller coasters at Cedar Point...but maybe the second biggest one there was a bad choice for their first ride of this visit....big opps!!

Poor Baby!!!  Needless to say...we did not ride the Magnum again.....


Here's what I don't understand though.....I mean, I really don't get it...they get sick riding a 30 sec roller coaster but then they LOVE those sickening swings that go around and around and are held on by just a couple of cables.....bleech!! At least it dried them off though...we were forced to ride all of the water rides right before this.....

Cedar Point now has this cool area of Christmas lights that are programed to light up with music as you walk through....we walked through the lights and then met up with Andy and the kids (he watched them while we rode the Maverick---the single most awesome roller coaster I have ever been on---it Rocks)...then we watched the big screen show they do with fireworks...

THE SECOND DAY!:


We were woken up bright and early by Jack :-)  Brian and I took him for a walk and watched the sailboats that were already out on Lake Erie at 6 am!!
And somehow...Brian got this scary photo....

This is how I found the kids...they may have been a bit tired....poor Madalyne...hope Zach didn't have gas....

after breakfast....I got ready to go into the park and Brian took the kids for a walk on the pier...

this was on Monday...the day we had ride and slide tickets...so we all wore our bathing suits into the park....we knew water rides were coming again.....yippee...(I'm saying this sarcastically) 
First though...we told the kids if they did not behave they were staying here...all day ;

I love this picture...who doesn't have this picture if you have ever been to Cedar Point???


So we spent the morning at the park...Andy took the kids again, and Brian and I rode the Millenium Force...the kids rode the bumper cars, Iron Dragon and other stuff....then we rode the water rides...again and again and again and again and again (you get the picture)....till it was lunch time and we were all SOAKED completely through to our bones!!!


so we went back to the trailer to eat lunch and then to go to SOAK CITY!!

they are not normally allowed to have pop...so this was a big deal!!

After lunch...we got ready and headed over to soak city...we spent the majority of the time there in the WAVE POOL!!....the kids LOVE the wave pool...it almost took an act of God to get them out of it!

We played in the wave pool, went in both lazy rivers a few times, went back to the wave pool, played in the play area with the big bucket that dumps on you, went back to the wave pool, slid down some of the big slides (I didn't...not so good for the ankle), went back to the wave pool, went to the play area with the little slides, went back to the wave pool....then it was time to go back into Cedar Point!!

So we went back and ate a snack, cleaned up and got dressed in the first dry clothes we had on in over 24 hours....seriously..I'm pretty sure I saw mold growing on Andy....and headed into the park.....the first ride we went on was the paddle boats....Zach really really wanted to ride the paddle boat...groan.

But look how excited he was in line;

Madalyne was all cool about it though...

everyone was chill on the paddle boat...while the guy told the worst jokes ever!

Then we were off to ride the train....groan, and the Iron dragon again, and then the Gemini...Madalyne was all about riding the Gemini....

Until we got to the actual time to get into the seats...notice ....Uncle Andy is in the red train, Zach and I are in the blue train...poor M got freaked out and she and Brian walked through...:-(

but that's ok...one day she'll do it....:-)  or maybe she won't...whatever.

So after this, Brian and Zach rode it again...and then Zach got pukey again....so we decided to eat a bunch of fries with cheese and everyone was all better!

Then we went up front and looked at stuff, rode some more rides, bought some "prizes", Brian and Andy rode the Raptor..then it was closing time!

We went back to the trailer for dinner and then bed....by now it was after midnight and the kids were wiped out!  We grilled some hamburgers, ate under the stars (and Andy's really really big christmas awning lights---they are awesome), and hit the sack.

NO ONE MOVED FOR HOURS!!!

we slept like rocks.

we woke up around 9 am...Brian and the kids headed to the pool for one last swim...Andy woke me up for real around 10 am and we realized we had minutes to clean everything up and pack!!!

PANIC TIME!!

We did manage to get it all cleaned up, packed up, kids and Brian out of the pool and everything ready to leave the park by 11:35 (we were supposed to be out by 11)..it was a minor miracle!

Then we rode out of the campground together...happy, tired, sunburned and hungry!!!  so we stopped at the first rest area, ate together, gave Uncle Andy great big thank you hugs and kisses and then headed our separate ways home.......

WE HAD AN AWESOME TIME!!!  It was great being together, having fun with Uncle Andy and riding all the rides and eating all the bad for you food....:-)

we won't be back next year though....maybe the year after...the kids need time to really want to ride everything...and probably time to heal from the Magnum disaster.....

-Wendy

P.S.  Brian went to work on weds...I have no idea how....I slept off and on for over 24 hours (I didn't feel well though) and Andy slept for over 12.  The kids slept for 8 and complained that they "never have anything fun to do"......ugh.

P.S.S.  I go back to work tomorrow and work 3 in a row...then Madalyne starts soccer...she's hopefully going to play on Middlebury Magic...I'll keep you posted.