Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Yes, today was the day. Today was the day of my trip to Michigan's Adventure with the Math Club. So, today's post will be solely about Michigan's Adventure and stuff. Lets start of with a brief synopsis of each ride and what I did during that ride, how many times I rode it, etc. Park Map Click here and then go to 'Park Map' on the sidebar. Ride Name: Corkscrew Description: Flip head over heels on our classic corkscrew roller coaster Rider Requirements: 48 inches or taller This ride was ridden two times by me. The injuries received from it was a sore head from having it slammed into the bars that hold you into the seat. Ride Name: Flying Trapeze Description: Take to the skies and let your feet dangle on this classic swing ride. Rider Requirements: 48 inches or taller I rode this once. Nothing else to say I guess. It was pretty boring... Ride Name: Shivering Timbers Description: A world class wooden coaster with drops of 125', 105' and 95' and speeds up to 65 mph. Rider Requirements: 48 " or taller ^_^ The best darn ride in the park. I rode this six times! And...sort of, hurt my head from it being jolted around in the turns. Ride Name: Wolverine Wildcat Description: Our original wooden coaster. Lift hill is 85' tall. Rider Requirements: 48" tall or taller The second best ride in the park, I suffered more injuries to my head...I also rode it about three times. Ride Name: Sea Dragon Description: Classic pendulum-style swing ride Rider Requirements: 48 " or taller; under 48" must be accompanied by a responsible person *grins* I love the Sea Dragon and other rides similar to it. I rode it two times and suffered no injuries fortunately. Ride Name: Logger's Run Description: Water flume ride guaranteed to cool you off. Rider Requirements: 46" or taller; under 46" accompanied by a responsible person Meh, it didn't cool me off at all. I barely even got splashed. It was a very fun ride though, heh. Here are the other rides that we rode but I can't get pictures or information for because the Michigan's Adventure site doesn't have stuff on them. Falling Star Trabant Thunderbolt The rides that we were supposed to do physics on but never got to them... Ride Name: Scrambler Description: Centrifugal force is king here Rider Requirements: 48 " or taller, under 36" - 48" must be accompanied by a repsonsible person. Ride Name: Giant Gondola Wheel Description: Take a relaxing spin and do some sight-seeing from the air. Rider Requirements: 48 " or taller, under 48" must be acompanied by a responsible person Ride Name: Carousel Description: 50' grand carousel. Rider Requirements: 46" or taller; under 46" accompanied by a responsible person Actually, I never rode this one, but I did get the physics on it from the people who did ride it so, yeah... A little craziness... Whew, the bus ride back from the park was nuts. I'd say the best part from when the teachers that came with us fell asleep on the bus. Three eight graders snuck up to the front of the bus, got the digital camera and took pictures of them while they were sleeping. Then, a little later, when we stopped at a rest stop, the teachers woke up and everyone burst out laughing, heh. I'd say that this trip was very awesome. Very awesome. The only thing that I thought was rigged was that, not that many kids who were there had to do physics on the rides! More than half the kids there were just there on field trips! They were all asking us like 'what are you guys doing homework for?' and we were like 'we're not doing homework, this is physics day, we're doing physics!'. Grr...Ah, whatever. I'd say I'm definitely joining the Math Club next year so I can go again, uh, I mean, so I can learn more...hehehe... Eh, well, those are the highlights so, later! -DDG

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