Cedar Point with Grandma

Daniel's mom, Cynthia, flew out for a long weekend visit and we took advantage of the opportunity to explore. We decided that since Daniel had won tickets to Cedar Point from work, we would take the opportunity to finally go there. For those of you who are unaware, as stated on their website Cedar Point "is the number-one rated amusement park on the planet. It's also the second oldest amusement park in North America." Unfortunately many other people had the same idea as we did and it was soooo crowded, but we had a good time anyway.


While Cynthia and Daniel went to stand in line for roller coasters the girls had a great time hopping from one ride to the next. At least the kiddie rides weren't crowded. This is the one and only ride that Myka would go on (other than the ferris wheel with all of us). Poor girl was pretty sick and such a trooper for toughing out the day with us. Daniel liked this picture because they were in a Ford Mustang!


More fun rides!!! I think the girls went on 11 rides by the time Grandma and Daddy got one rollercoaster in.


Nora and Kyla are such fun, sweet sisters. Instead of always wanting to sit in the front or have their special color they figured out what color of vehicle they wanted and went on ALL the rides together. Usually on the kiddie rides there was only one child per plane, car, etc. but they decided it was more fun to ride together than get their own car and always get to ride in the front. They enjoy each other so much and it makes me so happy.




The one ride that we were all able to go on was the Giant Ferris Wheel. The girls had a lot of fun and we enjoyed seeing the sights, but kind of wish we would have got up there in the daylight so we could have seen more. All the huge rollercoasters were pretty impressive.


The Top Thrill Dragster and our gutsy Grandma. They call it the "tallest, fastest rollercoaster in the universe" for good reason. It uses huge magnetic linear motors to propell you from 0 to 120 mph in less than 4 seconds. You then coast straight up 420 feet before droping straight down a corkscrew on the other side. This picture is proof that grandma did it as it was taken just after getting off with the tower and car in the background. And, yes, she is smiling because she loved it!


Toward the end of the night Kyla and Myka crashed in the stroller, but Nora just wanted to keep on going. Luckily, she found a friend, Caitlyn from Toledo Ohio, who was just as excited to have someone to go on rides with as she was. She went on the Junior Gemini rollercoaster three times while waiting for Grandma and Daddy to get back from the Top Thrill Dragster so Mom could go on a level 4 rollercoaster with her which required adult accompaniment. Of course, Nora loved the bigger rollercoaster and learning from Mommy how screaming makes it more fun.

No there are no pictures of Daniel because he had the camera the whole time and no pictures of me because I got to write this, but yes we were there and had a great time!