The plan was to leave the dock at 6:30 am sharp destined for Cedar Point amusement park. We were underway slightly past target, but considering the chaos of organizing four excited kids and four exhausted adults within 150 square feet of closed sailboat cabin, jammed full of luggage, dirty clothes, food, drinks, coolers, books, games and spare parts, I’d say we did pretty good.
Cedar Point is located at the end of a long peninsula which
originates at Sandusky, Ohio and stretches far out into Lake Erie, creating a
huge natural harbour which can get quite congested and rough at times because
of all the boat traffic and swirling wind, and it was indeed rough this
morning. We made it to the docks at
Cedar Point marina in under two hours, and were very happy to get registered
and tied up. The park opens one hour
early for guest of the marina so we were able to get in by 10:30, which gave us
a half hour jump on the big crowd. We
split into two groups – Ana, Jen and the kids then the rest of us, whose
mission was to ride as many roller coasters as possible so we head immediately
for the Top Thrill Dragster, the second tallest coaster in the world, which is
the most terrifying ride I’ve ever experienced.
Sadly, Andrew chickened out of this one so Marty and I got saddled in
and heard a loud voice say “Arms down. Head
back. Hold on.” The sounds of revving engine was deafening
and the inevitable take off came suddenly as the yellow lights counted down to
green then the car exploded from a standstill to 120 mph in less than four
seconds then shot vertically up a 420 foot tower then straight back down,
leaving your stomach contents looking for a fast way out. All I can say is the experience was intense!
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