Get to the POINT!

First of all, thank you to those of you who have gone to Linzy's blog to ask her to come back and start posting again. If you haven't gone over yet to plead her return, it is not too late!

Secondly, I would like to talk about my trip to Cedar Point today. Maverick is awesome. AWESOME. I have never been on a better roller coaster in my life. I didn't even think it was possible to have a hill so steep it went down at a 95 degree angle. So Raptor has been bumped from my favorite roller coaster and Maverick has taken its place.

My group and I went on Maverick at the very end of the night. It was around 7 o'clock (the park closes at 8) and we were tentative about riding it. We didn't know a whole lot about it. I knew that it was western-themed and that it stops at one point in the middle and shoots you again. I had no idea it was the second steepest roller coaster in the world (or that it was 95 degrees!). The wait for the ride was the longest in the park at 1.5 hours. That's not too bad. I remember waiting over 2hrs to ride several other rides at the park, including Magnum XL 200 during it's first year. But we were tired and we didn't know if it was going to be any good so we thought about just leaving or possibly going to another ride. Good thing we didn't. My entire group all exclaimed that it was the best ride in the park. This was a group of people that had never been to the park before. They were all working on the Lion King tour in Cleveland and were friends with Miguel (a friend of mine from college who is assistant company manager on the tour).

After we had gone through the coaster, we came to the breaks and swerved around to reenter the drop off point when an employee came running up the side and told us that we would have to sit and wait for 15 minutes because they had to stop the ride and reset. Apparently, someone had hid a ball cap in his shirt and pulled it out as the ride was leaving the drop off point. They had to stop the ride because you are not allowed to have any loose items on the ride because of the speed it travels. It was a safety precaution. The funny thing is the employee (who was somewhat flamboyant) came running back to our car and said emphatically "see what happens when you start pulling things out". Miguel and I just looked at each other and started laughing at him. I told the guy that it was the quote of the week and I was putting it on my blog. So that's what I just did. HA!

So there's a little bit about my day at Cedar Point today. Fun times. I can't wait to get back there and ride Maverick again. Awesome. BTW the steepest roller coaster(s) in the world is 97 degrees (yikes!) and there are 4 coasters (all in foreign countries) with a hill that steep. There is another coaster that is 95 degrees in Dollywood (tying for second place). Who knew?