who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?

apparently everyone in my family except my brother.

today i went with my family to busch gardens in williamsburg, virginia.  at some point, all of us decided we weren’t going to ride anything crazy. so once we enter the park, my brother daniel and i take my sister angie on corkscrew hill. it’s one of those cute little 3-D (or is it 4-D now? i can’t remember) rides. it was a lot better than i expected it to be, but i think i’m just a sucker for those rides cause i’m five. i forget what happened directly after this, but quickly we found our way to the alpengeist.

now, my brother is supposed to be the one that can stomach all these rollercoasters… i’m not. i admit right this moment that i am the world’s biggest baby when it comes to them. angie really wanted to ride it and no one was willing to take her, so i volunteered. i expected to be as frantic and foul-mouthed as my first time riding thunder run, wherever that coaster is… but it was the exact opposite. we waited in line in complete silence, save a few “no, i’m seriously freaking out”s that kept escaping my lips and the shaking of my bones. i volunteered to take the outside seat (because i’m dumb and protective?).. so, front row, outside seat, safe to say i was hating my life.. and i made it clear. the only sound i made on the ride was during the climb up… a quick “i hate my life RIGHT NOW”  when i spotted my stepmom below us. i closed my eyes afterwards because i suck with heights. i thought i had my eyes closed the whole time, but upon watching this video, i realized i didn’t…

this is the love of my rollercoaster life. i was terrified, but the fact that i couldn’t move around in my harness at all made it awesome. i will never deny the alpengeist.

we went on more cute little rides… including whatever 4-D (3-D? why don’t i know!) thing is at darkastle. it ruled. we got the parents on it and it was awesome. looking at it online, it was one of those ”wow, this is either really lame or really awesome” kind of rides. luckily it was awesome. we all enjoyed it. all the usual carnival rides (der katapult, da vinci’s cradle, tradewinds, etc.) all weasled into the mix.

back to this big bad wolf thing… 

looking at it, it seemed like a relatively safe coaster, so all of us decided to ride. big ol’ PSYCHE. the first part wasn’t so bad, but my harness was too loose, so yeah, i was freaked out. we thought it was over, but we didn’t clear the second drop yet. now, this drop is supposed to be everyone’s favorite part of this ride… i hate it. i don’t like them. the alpengeist dropped… but twisted so much in the process the downward force really became obsolete and i was focused on all the rolling instead. so, a 99-foot drop over the rhine river… with a harness that is too loose… not my idea of a good time.

 

the day at busch gardens ended with the best idea ever: the roman rapids.  i am a sucker for all of those white water raft rides. they’re so much fun and i don’t like doing all those logs and crap that drop. last time i did, i ended up with my face in my lap bar, soooo, PASS! but this ride rules, especially this time. my brother, sister, and i kept forcing the raft to keep spinning. at the end, we tried to put my dad under these waterfalls. it didn’t work. i got a little wet from the first, we missed the second one completely…. the third… i tried so hard to spin the raft, but it didn’t work, so i dove into the waterfall. i was the kid that gets out with water flowing off their clothing that makes the ride look awesome. probably the most fun i’ve ever had on one of those things.

so basically, i love the alpengeist, i’m afraid of the big bad wolf, and my family rules. such a great day.