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Thanks for sharing the food options, especially when it comes to the healthier options. I hear you on needing more, sometimes. When we eat clean on vacations and keep working out every morning, we actually find ourselves losing weight despite having a few drinks during the evening. We always eat really clean throughout day and cheat a little at dinner. I can't eat like crap during the day anymore, anyway. But... When we go to Kings Island Haunt this Saturday, it's going to be a free for all. It's like our one day a year where we intentionally drink a lot and don't care what we eat starting from late afternoon until we tap out at night. A workout before the park and the next morning before we drive home are crucial to make us not feel like total garbage. Cardio, cold shower, coffee, eggs, and a small bowl of fruit in that order. That puts me right back to about 75-80% after our annual Haunt binge nights.

Super quick trip report for a super quick trip. After spending Saturday at Hershey and with an 8:30 pm flight out of Philly Sunday evening we drove an hour and a half out of the way to spend about 3 and a half hours at Knoebels. Yes, we have been there before so were prepared to just hit our favorites and do an abbreviated trip. Park was open 12-5, we were there about 12:15-3:45. Parking lot was packed, but we were able to get fairly close by virtue of needing to use the EV chargers (in PA they charge by the hour fyi) We walked past the one price, one pass giant ticket booth and the line looked to easily be 45-60 min. Time we didn't have and we didn't feel was necessary. Walked up to a regular ticket booth with no line, bought $40 worth of tickets and that worked out just about perfect. Weirdly, for as packed as the parking lot was and for as long as the one pass line was.........ride lines were not as horrible as I thought they would be, not short but not ridiculous. Although even if you were able to stay all 5 hours of opening you probably would not have gotten on everything you wanted to. Longest we waited was Phoenix but it was running only one train. In the end we got on Impulse, Phoenix, Flying Turns 2x, Haunted Manison, and Flyers. Sure it was hard to not get to stay and do more but it was expected going in and it was nice to see Flying Turns running without issues. FYI - the main ride operator on Flyers was being pretty strict about snapping. That's info from my son, frankly I could care less,

May the odds ever be in your favor!

Pray for Tampa for the next few days.

My brother and I went this past Monday, 9/30, as we were down there for the weekend for a golf trip and decided to hit up SDC before headed back home to STL. When I tell you we had the place to ourselves, I'm not exaggerating at all! If it weren't for the ride ops making us go around, we would've had even more rides on all the coasters. The most we waited was 1 train for front row of Wildfire, which was running 1 train. I think we totaled 9ish laps on Time Traveler (all back and front rows), 2 laps on Mystic River and they let us stay on (got way soaked both times early in the day), 7 laps on Outlaw Run (first drop in the back seat should be illegal) 6 laps on Powder Keg (all in front and back - that back row on the first launch SLAPS and awesome airtime hill), 5 laps on Wildfire- (front edges and back edges) and 4 laps on TNT (back seat is ROUGH). Haven't been to the park since 2002 or so...? I was REALLY impressed. Back in High School, I wasn't a dad of 3 and paid close attention to cleanliness, theming, staff friendliness and such. SDC really has it together. We had no idea how crowds would be, but to not have to use Trailblazer and spur the extra cash and literally lap coasters and explore every avenue and non-coaster ride multiple times within a 5 hour window was a DREAM. I wanted to call out FITH separate. We only rode twice, despite not having a wait. I thought it was great and a well done tribute to the original. However, neither of us were longing to go back and do it more times. It's a great family ride and impressive presentation. Seems like a lot comes at you in a short amount of time. Found it hard to "follow", but I was also familiar with it. The new sets and blends of screens are great. It makes me think they're probably doing this over in Dollywood, given the recent plans leaked for a building 3x the size of FITH. You'd assume a similar ride, on a bigger scale in Wildwood. Not sure what the theme would be, but hopefully it's RMC. Only downside is we saw the ride go down 3-4 times in the day. So hopefully it's reliable enough. If you're looking to go on a day where you can rip thru the park and enjoy everything with no waits, fall time on a Monday is the way to go! I guess kids are in school and people come more on Thursday/Friday for long weekends. EDIT* - What's everyone think for their next addition? They spent a lot of money on the past 2 investments for families (FITH, Mystic River Falls). Seems they're due for a major thrill coaster in the next couple years. With them having a couple launch coasters already, wonder if they'll look to do something like a suspended thrill coaster from Vekoma since they got in with them for BBM at DW....?

So apparently Mind Eraser has been fully painted and all "track reprofiling" has been done. I'm not sure what that means but we will find out next year.