I'M BACK FROM KING'S ISLAND.
1.) I rode
The Diamondback and OH MY GOD IT WAS SO AWESOME AHHHHH. I wish I could have gotten a front seat. The smoothest ride I've ever ridden. AND FAST. AND FUN. And long, too, which is great, especially after you stand in line forever.
2.) I also goofed off on: Flight of Fear, Spongebob 3D, Adventure Express, The Beast, Flight Deck (which used to be Top Gun), White Water Canyon (where I got soaked), THE TRAIN (which helped dry me off), The Vortex (it boxes everyone's ears), and TIMBERWOLF, which was EPIC and by EPIC I MEAN, REALLY AWESOME.
Timberwolf looks like a recycled, cheaper, crappier version of a boat-like ride they had when I was a kid. The old ride took you WAY up in the air, and then around a snake-like curve of track filled with water before it sent you down an insanely steep waterfall. This version is 1/3 as tall, sends you down a steep waterfall, isn't fast, isn't scary, IS VERY EPIC, IS ALSO UNPOPULAR, and SOAKS YOU. Just after I finally dried off, too. But that's not the best part. After you get off the ride, you think you'll be awesome, right? So there's this really great deck you can stand on at the bottom of the waterfall where you can watch the people on the boat. You THINK you'll be able to see their expressions when they get soaked (it's a shock; nobody expected to get that wet from such a stupid ride), but A GIANT WAVE IS MADE BY THE BOAT, AND SOAKS YOU MORE THAN YOU GOT SOAKED RIDING THE RIDE.
A WAVE HIT ME RIGHT IN THE FACE.
Me: Dad, we're going to get wet.
Dad: .../moves over like, an inch.
Me: ...Dad, we saw the group of people here get soaked.
Dad: /busy watching idiots on boat.
Me: ...!!! /wave in face
It's so HORRIBLE that you can't stop laughing. Some guy was standing there laughing at us. Afterward, we stood back and laughed at other people when they got soaked. (The wave from the boat doesn't look like it goes that high.)
3.) My face and neck are burned. Ouch.
4.) CiCi missed me while I was gone. Emails piled up, journals piled up. I got tired and my feet hurt and I didn't get to ride the Avatar ride (was too tired and lazy to look for it by the time we left), and if I wasn't so tired, we could STILL BE THERE since the park didn't close until 10. Alas, I can't do that anymore. Uh, I'm getting too old for it. I'm usually beat by about lunch time.
5.) I screamed at all the non-scary parts of The Beast, and the two women sitting in front of my sister and I couldn't stop laughing about how awesome it all was. One of my favorite things to do is wait until the end of the right, right before it pulls back into the station, and then SCREAM LOUDLY. I also like screaming loudly at non-scary rides, like Adventure Express, which amuses all the parents of the kids who ride it. And uh, me. I almost lost my voice with all the epic screaming. That's the fun part. It's not nearly as much fun if you don't scream like you're going to die.
6.) UHHH I drew a couple things...
7.) But as I was doodling badly-drawn pokémon, my writing brain sidled up to me and put it's arm around me and whispered sweet nothings into my ear. Even though it basically told me to drop dead all last week and most of this week, I...had to...take it back. So I wrote down notes for my novelization. Which I won't bore everyone with.