Well...the Youth Group went to Cedar Point midway through July. How were we to have known that at the end of the trip there would be plenty of downed Super Big Gulps, giant wedgies, sung love ballads, and deaths for 118 Chicken McNuggets? We left the church at about 6 in the evening in three vehicles. I was navigator for the Irvin Van. Stewart took the drivers seat. Oh yeah...he didn’t use the toity before he left.

It was about 20 minutes into the drive when Stewart first told me to radio Josh and ask him when we were stopping somewhere. Josh said a half hour. 45 minutes later Stew changed his sitting position and began leaning into the wheel and I immediately knew that a restroom had better be somewhere near. And since Josh had turned his radio off due to his lack of caring for the Irvin Van Ballads we were unable to raise the lead vehicle. So basically when we got to Wendy’s about 10 minutes later, Stewart made a b-line for the toity.

It was also at Wendy’s that Cheese lost the top button of his shorts. Don’t ask me how that happened

About 3 hours later we stopped at a gas station so that I could get a Super Big Gulp and so that the rest of the kids could go to the locked up gas station rest room. Here Josh was apparently attempting to stab me with the rest room key.

We then began dedicating some songs to special people in our lives.

Originally we were going to camp out, but then Josh found out that it would be cheaper to get a motel room. So due to a string of crummy luck we ended up with 3 motel rooms to split amongst us. My room had 5, while the other guy room had 6....meanwhile the ladies had 9 in theirs. haha...oh sorry ladies

There’s quite a markup on beverages in Ohio. So much so that Stewart’s crave for a Cherry Mountain Dew could not be met by his cash allowance.

Now even though my room had the fewest people in it, it was still a little awkward

This is the group that within moments of this picture, was hauling buns to the new biggest coaster in the world.

The first ride we headed for was the Millenium Force. If I had to sum it up in one word, I’d say “uhhh....really fast” Now,I’ve looked all this info up and it’s the fastest coaster with the biggest drop of 300 feet and lasts 2:45 seconds

This is about 5 minutes before we rode the sucker. As Josh put it, “The butterflies in the bellies were churning”.

And this is about 5 seconds after we rode the sucker. The hair is the best visual aide when judging what it was like going that fast.

After that, we headed for the water rides. I was the only one willing to risk my camera on this particular one. Oh yea...luckily, I was also the only one who didn’t get soaked.

The next ride was a little bigger so I handed my camera over to Debbie Cooper for this action shot. The force of the drop threw my shirt right over my head. Do ya believe that?

And on our way to the Raptor Charles and Caleb and I ran across the stocks. I had my head in there originally but yeah...I fell or something.

As we were waiting in line for the Demon Drop, the girl who was running the thing from the booth fell off her stool and hit the ground with a metallic thud. Then she got right up, sat down, and did it again. I didn’t feel like just snapping a pic of her in her moment of embarassment so I told Stew to smile and got her in the background. heh heh

This is about 8 seconds before the Demon Drop dropped. Now, you can't see him but Josh is sitting to the left of Charles. He mentioned that he didn’t like the name of the ride. So I came up with the following...

Josh had bought tickets to do the Rip Cord at 3:45. We got in line for this indoor coaster called Disaster Transport (which was probably made in the 70’s) at about 3:10 thinking that the line was pretty small. Well, since it was indoors the line weaved all through several rooms you really couldn't tell just how much longer the line was until you actually hit the coaster. So at about 3:40 we convinced him to head out an emergency exit. He did and then about 5 seconds later the door opened back up and he got back in line claiming that the door took him outside of the park or something and he would've gotten kicked out. I dunno.

Yeah he lost those on his second trip on the Mantis by the way. Anyways when we finally got off the Disaster Transport at about 3:50, he booked it to the Rip Cord and we didn’t see him till the end of the trip. Bye Josh. Now it’s time for a little Clodfelder Legend.

The last time I was at Cedar Point was when I was about 8 years old and terrified of everything. So we got there when the park opened and my dad immediately stuck us in the longest line. He asked somebody what it was for and the guy said that it was the Magnum XL-200 and it was the biggest coaster in the world and that the first drop went “straight down...and in some” I started wigging out but it wasn’t enough to convince my parents to get me out of the line. So we rode the thing and when we got off and saw the mid-ride picture you couldn't even see my head because it was buried in my dad’s forearm. So skip ahead a decade and I was a little anxious to give the old girl a second chance. Charles and I got in the second row from the front on the train we rode...behind two really annoying girls. We later became annoying but that’s a few pictures away yet. This was on the way up. Notice Caleb in the back middle having the time of his life.

So as we were going over the second drop the girl’s chapstick in front of me goes flying up out of the car. Bare in mind this is all in slow-mo since the chapstick was moving the same speed we were. I semi-tried to grab it but was more interested in actually watching it begin the 280 foot fall to the ground. It was pretty cool. When we came to a stop, I was like “you lost your chapstick” Then the girl beside her started wigging out cause she thought she’d lost her season pass at the same time as the chapstick. Charles and I just started laughing when they wondered why i didn’t catch it for them....then they started swearing at us. I laughed harder. They eventually found the pass in the seat but blamed me for the chapstick. Anyways, I survived the ride this time...barely.

Megan and Caleb then ducked out due to sissyness. So it was just the big boys left at this point...or something. Anyways we headed back to the Millenium Force for the second time and while we were in line, a seagull that was sitting on the tracks got ran over. At least that's what we heard from the guy next to us in line who saw it....and also from some other kids who were farther up in line. This picture was taken in the same exact spot as the pic we took on the first way through the Millenium Force line at the beginning of the day.

This is a re-enactment of what the picture of us on the Millenium Force looked like. After this we headed for the Magnum again...and ended up being on one of the best in-ride pics of all time.

Aighty...so Charles and I are waiting in line for the front seat of the Magnum when I see these 2 girls in front of us. We start normal conversation and then the 2 of us drift into Espanol. So the girls are looking at us like we’re stupid as we went on to continue our unintelligible conversation for about 8 more minutes. Eventually, they went on the train in front of us and when they left we think that they told the ladies running the ride that we were annoying them. So anyways when our train got there, we hopped into the front seat and the two workers push the restraints down ALLLLLLL the way. A little too tight. But it was all good until we started hitting the bumps in the tunnels toward the end of the ride. Eventually, it came to a stop and we looked over and saw the 2 girls waving at us from the exit ramp. So they must’ve noticed our studliness I guess. Who wouldn't?? Anyways we were still bruised from the bumping in the tunnels so we stumbled off the car and wandered to the photo tent where we found this picture...

And so then we left.

And then we had a little something called the Chicken McNugget Challenge. See...I once told Steven that I’d eaten 26 McNuggets in one sitting. He said that was nothing to him and that he could do 100. I said that was hooha and the Chicken McNugget Challenge was born. So on the way home we stopped at McDonalds and Larry Burns entered the competition and managed to down 26 McNuggets before bowing out.

My motto is that the first 15 McNuggets are tough, after that I just put it in cruise control and coast all the way home. Anyways, once our allotted McDonalds time was up I was at 37 and Steven was sitting at 40 “waiting for me to catch up”. So we loaded in separate mini vans and each assigned someone in our prospective vehicle to be on the radio and keep track. Once I hit 40, Steven started up again and stopped at 46. I kept on plodding until I hit 46, at which time we ran out of McNuggets. A plea to stop at the next McDonalds went unanswered by all Coopers and so the Chicken McNugget Challenge remains unanswered to this day. All I know is that...as Charles put it...I “could have hit 60, easy.” Add this to the fact that Mollie said Steven was trying to throw his McNuggets out the mini van window and obviously I’m the bigger man....on the inside.

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