That was a long day...

It all started at 4:30 in the morning when my TV turned on and woke me up. I was surprisingly not very tired. After 40 minutes of preparation I was ready for the day's journey, and at 5:30 I left to pick up Ross. Ross came out to my car promptly and saved me from having to turn off my car, get out, and search for him in his house. We then went to McDonalds since Ross thought it was incredibly necessary to get 5 pounds of processed "convenient food" at 5:40 in the morning. He actually spent $9 at McDonalds... two McGriddles, one breakfast burrito, one cappuccino, and a water. We made it to the school at 5:45 and were the third ones there. After a few minutes everyone showed up and we got onto the charter bus that was driven by Norma. The first hour was uneventful... Ross sold Hannah his breakfast burrito after he discovered that he couldn't eat all he bought and we made a stop at the Pinconning McDonalds where I got a sausage egg and cheese biscuit. Next we made a stop at the Bay City Meijers to pick up more people. This stop should have been skipped. Those people were incredibly annoying. At first it wasn't bad but it got much much worse as the ride progressed. Zoolander was put in the VCR and so I decided I would listen to my CD player. Ross and I used my two-people-listen-to-the-same-thing headphone thing and we listened to band music for a while. I was kind of half looking at the TV screen until one of the Bay City people decided to switch someone and sit in front of me and block the TV with her large head. Surprisingly (since you all know how I am) that didn't bother me too much. The people next to me and Ross would keep standing up and they had a little girl who would constantly scream. Yes, that was a little annoying. As we were getting close to Cedar Point, the one Bay City guy with half of his head bleached decided to inform everyone in his Jeremy McKee voice basically that he had been to Cedar Point before and knew everything about it. It was obvious that he didn't when he said that the waits were 30 minutes to an hour... right, what Cedar Point are you talking about? In actuallity, the typical wait time was 1.5 hours, but they ranged from 15 minutes to 4 hours. But I didn't let any of the annoyances get to me. We got to Cedar Point a little before noon, sat around while Norma got our tickets, and then entered the park.

Ross and I headed directly for the Raptor and got there about 10 minutes before the others. The Raptor was fun and is always a good one to break you in. Next, Ross and I went to the Millenium Force. The line was long but we had fun. We made friends with the guy and girl in front of us after the guy left the line to go to the bathroom and then when he got back in line the security guy tried to kick him out but Ross and I confirmed their story that he was already there so it was all good. Throughout the wait, Ross and I were set on getting the front seats on Millenium Force but by the time we got there we were so tired of waiting that we ditched the front car idea and got in the front seats of the second car... close enough. We held up our hands on the first big hill and I screamed (Ross described it as "blood-curdling"). We bought out picture afterwards. After the Millenium Force, we saw Alecia, Hannah, BethAnne, and Ronnie and then Ross and I went to the Mantis. The line was long but we passed the time playing the game where you pick a topic and have to think of something related that starts with every letter of the alphabet. We were aobut 2 cars away from getting on (we were actually on the platform) when there were "mechanical difficulties". That irked me. We sat down and watched the workers climb the many stairs to the top of the hill where the ride was stuck. They got it running and tested a few and then had people get on. We ended up being on the first one after the break down with people because some people had left. I must say I didn't feel entirely safe. After the Matis, we went to the Power Tower and rode the green one where you're thrust down. We got to the top and then freaked out. That was fun. By that time we were starving since we hadn't eaten since breakfast and it was about 5:00. We walked and walked looking for someplace suitable to Ross. There was absolutely nowhere that he was pleased with... "It's too expensive...I don't want that...It'll have more than pretzels...Let's try by the Magnum...I don't like hotdogs..." by that time we had walked from the Raptor area past the Magnum far into wooden roller coaster land and that's when I told him to deal with it and that I wasn't going any farther. He settled for nachos and free water and I got mini corndogs, fries, and gatorade. We checked the time on the wait for Dragster but it was 4 hours. Then we went to the Magnum where we rode in the front seats. The Magnum is fun. After the Magnum, we went to check out the Wicked Twister but that wasn't running that day for some reason so we went to Disaster Transport. After Disaster Transport we did the penny thing on the Demon Drop. The people next to us did it with a nickel and when we were flipped right side up we could hear all the change clinking on the ride's metal... 7 cents. At that point we still had a few hours, so I sat down on a bench and Ross went to see the time on the Millenium Force. As I was sitting there, I saw Ronnie and Jim and then BethAnne. Ross came back and Ross, BethAnne, and I went to the Mean Streak. BethAnne freaked out on it... it was hilarious. Then we went to Magnum to finish off the night. On our way to the front gates, we saw a Dragster not make it over the top. Then we went back to the bus.

The drive home was very uneventful. I listened to my CD player the whole time. When we got back to the school, we saw that the Bay City people had left a huge mess behind. There were water bottles, PB&J sandwiches, half eated bottles of pringles, spilled onion rings, ketchup packets, and just general trash all over their area. Wow, what pigs (in the words of Lyne). I took Ross home and got to bed around 4:20 in the morning, 24 hours after I had woken up the day before.