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Post by mizzkid92 on Apr 11, 2006 7:23:22 GMT -5
Last year my friend, my dad, and I all went to Cedar Point. But heres the catch, we live 10 hours away, but that doesnt really matter for such a great park. We drove the whole way and got to the park one day earlier than we planned to actually be at the park. (Excuse picture quality, they are low-res stills from my camcorder) So, we wasted some time! First we went to the local Meijers (or something like that as we dont have them where I live) and bought our tickets. Then we checked in at our motel. My family doesnt really care if we stay in an upscale hotel or not so we simply stayed at the Days Inn, conveniently located almost directly at the entrance to the main CP midway! Then we were thinkin, Lake Erie is beautiful, there has to be a place for us to swim. So we asked the lady at our motel and she said that there was a place about 15 minutes away, called Nikel Plate Beach! So thats where we went. Check out the nice white sand, and the light house! After that we were still bored so we went into town to see what there was to do. It turns out there it a nice arcade place with go-karts, so we stopped there and drove a couple rounds around their two cool tracks. The first track (thats me): The second track (me and my friend in line): And the second track again (alright! I got the hooters car!): After that, we ate some burgers and went swimming in the motel pool! But I am out of time for now, I have to go to school! So you guys can catch the rest of this PTR around 3:00 (maybe) and then you'll actually get to see some CP shots!
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Post by Coasterdude5 on Apr 11, 2006 15:00:13 GMT -5
Awesome TR! Do you mind if I move it over to the TR forum when people stop posting?
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Post by mizzkid92 on Apr 11, 2006 16:04:00 GMT -5
^Sure you can, and sorry. Now back to where I left off, the next day, we woke up bright and early to get in the park early. I have a few pics from when we were driving up the main midway to park, they are pretty bad but oh well: MILLENIUM FORCE! DRAGSTER AND POWER TOWER! We are getting closer, anticipation builds: Wicked Twister "one spike of it atleast" RAPTOR! OK, from here on out the quality is a little better, considering I am not recording out of the car. We finally park, and we are so early our spot is up close, we can hear the music and we cant wait to get in the park! My friend is a little excited too, here he is dancing: We walk up to the ticket area and I get a nice shot of why we drove so far for a theme park: This is when we are in the park but they will only let us go so far, and we are waiting for the park to "oficially" open to the GP. We are stopped in front of the beautiful Raptor: I love B&M's and this one is just spectacular! So they finally let us in and we go running for none other than Top Thrill Dragster! I like this picture: Two trains in one picture, do I have skill or what? FINISH! Over the top, I only saw one rollback the entire day! Even though we got there early, we still had to wait a half hour atleast in line. Here is me and my friend in line (we are next!): So this is our train, if you look closely, you can see part of my friend behind the bigger lady in the red shirt. So, after our ride, I explain that that mad white knuckle grasp is a good thing! Here are some shots of other coasters now, we only had the camcorder for the first part of the day, so not too many coasters are shown. Its Corktastic! I really did like this small Shwarzkopft: Damn trim brakes, yes they were on today. Mantis, the extremely powerful ball chopper-offer-maker-of-numb-legs-er-thing. This is the picture we gave to my friend, its us on Magnum, I told him the camera was coming up, and we got this! Good bye CP, I love you! If you got this far, thanks a lot for reading.
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Post by Coasterdude5 on Apr 11, 2006 18:20:25 GMT -5
AWESOME PICTURES! And don't worry about where you post it, I'll just move it once it stops getting posts, no problem at all and thanks for posting!
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Post by kennywood007 on Apr 11, 2006 19:06:08 GMT -5
Awsome TR! I wanna go right now soo bad!! ;D
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Post by coasterfreak101 on Apr 12, 2006 6:20:58 GMT -5
Ooh. Pretty Thanks for sharing, looks like a great trip! --Tyler "now why won't my parents drive me 7 hrs to CP?" H.
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Post by phazan on Apr 17, 2006 19:03:35 GMT -5
Nice! I will go there someday...*Sigh* I drove 6 hours for SFMM. I almost beat you! Well...wait...I drove about 7 hours to DLR! I guess im tied then!
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Post by mizzkid92 on Apr 29, 2006 19:02:11 GMT -5
I beat both of you b/c I drove 10 hours to get to CP!
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Post by Coasterdude5 on Apr 29, 2006 19:31:03 GMT -5
Hey Justin, do you mind if I put some of these pictures in the gallery? They look really good!
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Post by mizzkid92 on Apr 30, 2006 16:45:05 GMT -5
^Not at all! They arent the best quality though because they are stills taken from video, sorry 'bout that. (And I wouldnt mind if you somehow noted they are my pictures, but you dont have to.)
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Post by Coasterdude5 on Apr 30, 2006 18:48:55 GMT -5
^Don't worry, that's the standard. How would you like me to note them?
BTW, your avatar link seems to have been broken.
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Post by phazan on Apr 30, 2006 18:53:14 GMT -5
^I can see it just fine. Weird...
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Post by Coasterdude5 on Apr 30, 2006 20:24:42 GMT -5
Hmmm.... his link doesn't work, but oh well.
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Post by mizzkid92 on May 1, 2006 16:05:59 GMT -5
I dont really care how you note them, maybe just at the top of the page say "Photos by Justin Seabaugh" or something. Also, the reason my avatar isnt working is because it was a link to my TPR avatar and I changed that one so now this one is also non-existent! LOL, Ill fix it.
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Post by Coasterdude5 on May 1, 2006 16:26:02 GMT -5
^Great, works fine now!
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