Tuesday, July 09, 2019

King's Dominion

For Zara's 14th birthday party, we spent the day at King's Dominion. Amity rode the Dominator, which is an impressive 3rd roller coaster ever. Zara rode *everything* pretty much, though in the grand tradition of her parents, has declared wooden roller coasters (particularly the newly re-branded "Racer 75") to not be her jam.

We missed out on a few rides, though, so there will need to be a repeat journey in our not too distant future. There's a few more rides I'd like to go on, personally, but I have to say this day greatly exceeded my expectations because Amity seems to love roller coasters and is quite the daredevil, and no one was in tears by the end of the day (at least until we left the park). I rode the log flume with the three cool cats pictured here doing the "Charlie's Angels," and that was incredibly fun. It was, however, topped by all 5 of us riding Whitewater Canyon together, screaming our faces off (who is driving car? BEAR is driving car!), and the discovery of Z's deep seated fear of animatronics.

I think Z would identify riding Intimidator 305 as one of her favorite things, or possibly the straight drop waterslide. A's favorite thing is that Zara's friend BG also likes wooden coasters, so the two of them got some QT on a Racer 75 repeat adventure. As for me, I deeply enjoyed chillaxin' on the 300ft high swings.