King's Island

We picked Jayce up early this morning and were at King's Island a couple of minutes after it opened.  The drive felt a little long, but we had The Lego Movie, Dodgeball and even the episode of the Brady Bunch at King's Island to keep us busy.

After a photo stop at the Eiffel Tower, Cal and Jayce  split off from the rest of us to try all of the roller coasters they could get on.  King's Island opened a new one this year called the Banshee.  It is the longest inverted roller coaster in the world with seven inversions.  By the end of the day the three oldest and Jayce all tried it out.

While the boys were off by themselves, the five of us headed to our favorite part of the park - Planet Snoopy.  We have been to King's Island many times over the years.  We still talk about the first time we came when Planet Snoopy was all Scooby Doo and Hanna Barbara.  The Heinisch children's favorite was when it was Nickelodeon land.  Meg decided by the end of the day she was just going to keep calling the rides the same name as they were then.

We had a lot of fun in Planet Snoopy.  Doug can't ride a lot because of motion sickness, so that left the four of us to ride together.  I even tried a couple of the smaller coasters.  Doug did score bonus points with Cam, Brett and Meg by joining them on White Water Canyon.  We met up for lunch at Fest Haus.  It has large pizzas that we can share and is air conditioned.  The only downside was the music performance - a tribute to boys' bands over the years.

The five of them went to the Viking Furry after lunch.  Then Jayce and Cal were back out in the park again.  Meg tried the Banshee with Brett while Doug and Cam went on another water ride.  The Banshee gave Meg a headache, so she sat out with me for a little while.  That worked out well as Brett and Cam went on all of their favorite spinning rides including the Scrambler.  Doug then got creamed at the bumper cars as Brett hit him from the front as Meg got him in the back.  I was glad that I was taking pictures.

Around 7 p.m. the power went down in the park.  At that point they only opened up certain rides.  We took some time to shop and were able to ride Boo Blasters one more time.  Cal and Jayce waited at the Diamondback and were one of the first ones to ride it again.  Since we had done all that we wanted to and some of the smaller rides were closed for the night, we decided to head out to dinner.  There was a Buffalo Wild Wings between the park and our hotel, and we managed to finish off seventy boneless wings, a basket of buffalo chips, mozzarella sticks, and an order of chili con queso.

It was great listening to all five of the kids talk at dinner.  I know they had a great time.  They each had a story to tell and quizzed one another on their favorite rides.  We had two rooms, so Meg, Doug and I took one and the boys all took the other.  We were definitely tired, but we sure had a lot of fun.