Busch Gardens or BUST!!!

Well, it's been a while since I have made an entry
on our BLOG site. Catching a lot of grief from the blog every event girl, so thought I better catch up. My challenge is time, first finding enough to actually present an acceptable blog and then just to find time to sit and do it. I'm afraid this one will not be up to MY standards, but it will be a BLOG!!!!!!! Just going to Busch Gardens is a challenge for me. I love roller coasters and would love having the job of testing them all out, but I dislike the driving to get there. But with determination and hope of riding a new coaster, and of course family support we took off on Friday 2 weeks ago. The trip was not really too bad, Holly and Micah had season pass and wanted to go one more time this year, so we agreed to make the trip with them. Started out a little cloudy and iffy, but it was cool and for August that made going to an amusement park a little more inviting. We drove into the parking lot at 10;10am, got out of the car, and the Sun busted out from the clouds and we we immediately immersed in what felt like 99.99% humidity. Of course after a while your body adjusts and it did, but it was really miserable at first, and I think everyone had the same idea we had to wait till school was in to go there...it was pretty packed. But of course it is big enough to accommodate a lot of peeps!! After gondolaing across the park our first ride of the day was on the new coaster "The Griffin" Holly could not ride because Emily is not used to roller coasters yet, and that was a good excuse to hide her fear of this one. But Kim, Micah, and I took the plunge. In the picture above that is the actual picture of us coming over the first really steep 90 degree drop from 720 feet up. It is a freaky drop, that Will definitely get the adrenalin flowing. the 3 of us are on the very back left hand corner as you look at the picture. To see the real effects of that drop go to Holly and Micahs blog and get the close up view of fear and excitement all wrapped up in 3 faces!!! WE stayed until almost closing time, ate at the picnic site outside the park, drank lots of fluids, and walked for miles and miles and miles...well you get the picture. I would absolutely recommend to get a map of the park before going and plan your route out before you get there, then stick to it. You will enjoy the trip much more and get much more done. Overall, it was a great day. Got to spend time together as family, wish all the other kids could have been there, got to ride every major coaster there except "The Big Bad Wolf", (did not want to walk across the park again to get that final one in), got Micah on a few coasters he had not ridden, had all day to spend with Kim, blue skies and sunshine, just a great day...even if I really had not wanted to go at first. Below you can see Kim and I in front of Mount Vesuvius. And if you want to get a vague idea of what the Griffin is like...click on the video.... It is the most intense 6 seconds you will spend at Busch Gardens, VA.
Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them! Is your glass half full today???................kjb