Yesterday at the theme park.

[lisamoe]

So on a whim, Mom and I decided to drive the kids to Silver Dollar City yesterday since everyone had season passes anyway, and Jesse was all worked up about going to this "World Fest" they were having. I took the day off work and we left at 7 am, not returning til 11 pm. It was a nice drive up and a beautiful day. I talked Jesse onto the big mine train style coaster, Thunderation. He loved it so much he rode it 9 more times over the course of the day. Dingo rode it once, but went back to Fire in the Hole (which is a very mild coaster, more of a funhouse, really, and the kiddie coaster after that. We rode the flooded mine shooting game a number of times, I talked Jesse onto this big fast saucer ride and the viking ship, which he's always been scared of. I knew he'd be fine though, and he was. Dingo rode the big swing ride for the first time also. We saw the Chinese acrobats, did some shopping, Dingo rode lots more kiddie rides, and I also got to ride Wildfire, which is a thrill coaster with several inversions. Powder Keg was out of order, so I still haven't ridden it. We finished up the day by spending a couple of hours riding the Lost River of the Ozarks ride, which is one of those things where they have big round boats seating 6 that they send down a very splashy river. The sign says you will get "bathtub wet" and they aren't kidding. Jesse rode that 11 times and Dingo and I rode it 9. I wasn't dying to go on this ride but Dingo had to have an adult go, sigh. They were so so happy though, so I guess I'm happy I went. We left soaking wet and of course I'd brought spare clothes for the kids, but not for myself, so I got to ride back to Tulsa that way. Except for the damp trip back, awesome day!

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I love the lost river ride! When I was little they had this boat thing, that used to be in that little pond with the waterfall, it goes down and you talk to Poseidon then get in a wreck and it starts taking on water. It was like a wooden submarine. I have horrific childhood memories of that thing. LOL

[lisamoe.livejournal.com]

I have vague memories of that too! It seems like it was really scary to me.

[a-spirited-soul.livejournal.com]

damn! that is so awesome that you can just take off and do that for a day. We went to SDC a couple of years ago and I was scared to death of my cell phone getting wet and shorting out on that ride. We rode it the last day when the temperature unexpectantly dropped to the 60's. We got out of that ride and Jillian turned blue.

If Master Bob will let me, I'm going to take the kids in July to Branson for a long weekend.

[lisamoe.livejournal.com]

You'll probably like the water ride a lot better in July, lol.

[mstami.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm glad you all had a good time. :)

[lisamoe.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[mohead.livejournal.com]

Did you go on the water coaster?

[lisamoe.livejournal.com]

We didn't do the log flume and the "waterboggan" was still closed for the season. I guess they don't open it til summer.

Wildfire is a pretty good coaster, btw. Not as good as the Superman Krypton Coaster at Six Flags Fiesta, but still a good ride.

[angel-ent.livejournal.com]

The boys have seen the WorldFest ads on tv lately and really bugging me that they want to go. I am planning a vacation for the end of May and was planning on San Antonio with Sea World, the Alamo, etc. But now I am debating which to do. Didn't you recently go to San Antonio?

Which was more fun?

[lisamoe.livejournal.com]

San Antonio has more varied stuff to do, but it's more of a hassle getting there and more expensive overall. We had a very good time there and the boys love Six Flags and SeaWorld. They didn't care about the Alamo at all, though I liked it. They liked the Riverwalk area and the water taxi boat tour. And we went to a couple of museums they liked.

Branson has Silver Dollar City, which I actually enjoy more than Six Flags, as far as theme parks go, but after that Branson is mostly shows and go-cart tracks and shopping and caves. Not really the cultural heritage that San Antonio has, but plenty of things to do actually. It is cheaper to go, though, and an easy drive.

WorldFest only runs through May 6th though. You might check the SDC website and see if they start another festival before the end of May.

If it were me and I wanted a real vacation, I'd go on to San Antonio and then just make a two day trip to Branson some other time to go to Silver Dollar City.