Barge84

I've been really regretting not making it to Banshee Bash. I'm not a fan of KI, but after seeing how much fun everyone had I wish I would've gone. Firehawk was a surprise for me last year... I thought it was pretty fun. Not sure if being bigger helps, because you don't get thrown around in the restraint as much. Oh, and look at this. Robb Alvey is taking coaster nerd pictures! NERD!

Same here.

I'm glad you approve, Caesar. I'll sleep well tonight knowing that!

I wouldn't say that. He was feeling a lot worse than I was! That doesn't mean that I wasn't ready to die, though! That's a great picture! Thanks for posting it. If you think I'm strange, I'm probably doing something right! As for Struffel, I'd rather see him in Fantasy World than ride next to him without his shirt on. Jake's picture from Farrup gave me nightmares.

Looks like I'm going to Carowinds next year.

Day 5 – BonBon-Land, Ferry to Germany, German Hotel & Hospitality Today was the trip’s first early morning, and it was also time to leave Copenhagen. I didn’t seem quite as sentimental about leaving when I woke up at 5:30 that morning. Now, I wish I would’ve spent just a little more time exploring the city, but sitting around the patio at night chatting with friends isn’t a horrible way to use your leisure time, either. Copenhagen is a really great city, and I really hope I get to come back some day. Enough with the nostalgia, we're on our way to BonBon-Land! It was only about a 90 minute bus ride, so most of my group stayed awake and talked the whole way to the park. We chose Robb’s bus (Sorry, Elissa! Robb and I were Facebook friends) because it’s usually the fun, loud, more… vulgar bus. I’ve determined over the years that “fun” is a relative term, because there always seem to be a few people that don’t enjoy our kind of humor. For the most part, the back of the bus was me, Ross, Steve, Priscilla, Joe, Chris, Alan, Jere, Ryan aka Snooks and Shawn. Wait a minute! That’s right! Shawn’s too good to sit in the back with us. Scratch him off the list. Even though I should’ve been tired, I wasn’t. The previous evening I’d found some Monster energy drinks at the 7-11 by our hotel. That’s basically my coffee, so I was happy to finally get some. Somehow, I ended up drinking both cans that I bought during the bus ride, so I was ready to roll when we got to the park. After driving to the middle of nowhere, we finally arrived around 8. The entrance drive was a little strange, because you could the see park’s graveyard. You could see quite a few of the things that the new owners had taken out of the park. We're here! Hmmmm... This doesn't look promising. A little history about BonBon-Land. It was built by a candy company in the early 90’s, and features characters that the candy was based on. Henry the farting dog is the park’s mascot, and there are also a few other strange characters. This includes a hippo wearing a diaper that pees its pants, and a duck that looks like it’s drunk and farting under water. Needless to say, this is the strangest amusement park I’ve ever been to. I’m guessing it used to be a little better, but since the candy company sold it a few years ago it doesn’t look like the new owners are maintaining the park as well as they should be. Today was a bit of a strange day on the trip. I’d probably rate BonBon-Land as my least favorite park of the tour, but I had an amazing day at the park. Some of my favorite memories from the entire trip came from this day. There are probably some memories that I can’t remember, either, but more on that later. Both buses unloaded, and people waited around for the park to let us in. While we were collecting our meal vouchers and bracelets for the day, most of the group took some pictures of the main entryway. I thought the main entrance was really well done. Some of the crazy characters were standing on roller coaster track, while others were riding in ride vehicles. It was very detailed. Maybe this wouldn’t be too bad after all! After a few minutes, the gates were opened and we were let in. There’s a huge walkway leading into the park. Lined along one side are several of the character statues, set up so you could put your face in them for a picture. On the other side of the walkway was the Fantasy World attraction. This house of horrors will be discussed later on. I really liked the main entrance. Nice detail. Welcome to BonBon-Land! The yellow guy freaks me out. He's shoving a stick in one ear and out the other. Oh, don't worry. We'll be discussing this house of nightmares later on... All of the characters are completely normal. The last character that you come to is Henry. Since Henry is a farting dog, you’d be correct if you guessed that there was a statue of him farting. Since we’re all mature adults, we didn’t do anything stupid with this statue. Ross was hungry. Gross. Ross's breath made Henry's farts smell funny. After we’d had our fun, we were walked back to the area of the park where all of the roller coasters are located. I thought the paintings on the fence were pretty interesting. Yep. That's a hippo farting. What the hell is this place? More of Henry. BonBon-Land was nice enough to open all four of their roller coasters for over 90 minutes! Even with a large group like ours, there was never more than a 5 minute wait for any of the rides during this time. Just another great perk of traveling with TPR! It seemed like most of the group was heading towards Dog Fart coaster, so we went the other direction. The first ride we came to was the Eurofighter, but there were some people headed that way as well. We walked past it towards the park’s spinning coaster, Hankatten, or Tom Cat. I think Tom Cat is a Gerstlauer, but I’m not going to take the time to look that up. We waited a couple of minutes to board. Of course, we were all discussing how we could load the cars to be unbalanced so we’d get as much spinning as possible out of our ride. The cars have 4 seats, 2 on each side, facing the other 2 seats. Steve and I sat on one side, while Priscilla hopped in the seat across from Steve. This is about as unbalanced as a ride can get, so it’s going to be crazy, right? Not really. I’m not even sure if we really spun much at all. The ride has a decent layout, but it was pretty disappointing after our first ride since didn’t spin all that much.. More discussions would follow to determine a better strategy. We’ll come back later to try out some of our ideas. The entrance to Tom Cat, a spinning coaster. It's actually a very well themed park. Most of the layout of Tom Cat. You see, pussy refers to both cats and vaginas! Entrance with the Euro-Fighter in the background. The flat portion of the ride. Since the Euro-Fighter was next door and the line looked pretty short, we made our way over to Vild-Svinet’s station. Vild-Svinet, or The Wild Boar, was the first Euro-Fighter ever built. Isn’t that exciting? I thought so. The ride is themed to a bunch of boars racing cars against each other. I’m sure this makes sense to someone, but I have no idea why they did this. Regardless of the odd theming, I thought the ride was pretty fun. There’s always something unnerving about a 90 degree lift hill. The drop doesn’t bother me at all, but going straight up is just weird. It has a pretty simple layout. Vertical lift hill, vertical drop, overbanked turn, loop, a turn, a helix, a couple more turns, brake run. Not much to it, but I’d take one of these in Des Moines. I was really slacking on my coaster nerd duties… I only have a couple of pictures of this ride. Sorry. I know you all come here for the sweet pictures. Here's the entrance to Euro-Fighter, Vild-Svinet (The Wild Boar). This was the only picture I took of the ride. I've failed you all as TPR's Official Coaster Nerd. What’s next? Well, this is where I have to admit something. I rode the Dog Fart coaster. I told myself before the trip that I was going to ride it, even though it was a kiddie coaster. Come on, it’s a roller coaster with a farting dog. I have to ride that, right? My friends were so nice, giving me the entire train to myself for my first ride. I guess if I’m going to ride a kiddie coaster, they’re going to make a big deal out of it. Too bad there weren’t any showers at the park, because I felt pretty dirty after this one. When my ride finished (they let the train go around 3 times), Ross and Jere hopped in with me and we went again. Why not? I’d already lost my dignity, might as well ride it one more time. On my second ride, I’d noticed that Shawn and Adrian had found a spot along the fence where they could get some embarrassing pictures of me. I deserve it. Enjoy. Henry! Yes, I rode. They gave me my own train. What an honor! Going through the house. Thanking Adrian for taking this picture. Now I'm happy... This is where Henry sleeps when everyone leaves the park. Once everyone in our group had the credit, there was only one more roller coaster to ride. Viktor Vandorm (Victor the Water Worm) was a family coaster that had the longest train I’ve ever seen on a ride. I think it had at least 20 cars, but I can’t remember off the top of my head. When it’s going up one of the 2 lift hills, the train almost covers the entire hill. There isn’t much to say about this ride. It’s a decent little family coaster, but I only needed one ride on it. Viktor Vandorm, the family coaster. Alan, Victor, Stacy, Steve, Priscilla, Me, Jere. This is only half of the train! Grow up, Steve... Now, I’m not exactly sure what got into me on that morning, but I acted like a completely different person. I’m not really a quiet person, per se, but I’m not a person that likes to stand out in a crowd. Within my group of friends I act like a complete idiot, but around the rest of the group, I tend to be pretty reserved. There was just something about how quiet everyone was being on that morning. Out of nowhere, while waiting in the station I yelled, “HEY! If I have to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to ride roller coasters, I’m going to have a good time. OK?!?” Everyone just kind of looked at me. I yelled, “COME ON! LET’S HAVE SOME FUN!!!” That one got a little more of a reaction. When it was my turn to ride, I climbed in and pulled down the restraint. I started clapping and yelling, just trying to get people excited. A few of my friends joined in, but I think the rest of the group thought I was insane. I screamed like an idiot throughout the entire ride. When we pulled back into the station, I just kept yelling “YEAHHHHHHHH!!!! YEAHHHHHHHH!!!” Our group got off the ride and headed back towards the spinner and the Euro-Fighter. Some of my friends were asking why I was acting like that. I told them that the group was dead, so it was time to liven things up! We went back to ride The Wild Boar again. There were about 15 other people in the station when we got there. It was quiet, so I yelled, “OH YEAH!! HERE WE GOOOOOOO!!!!” I’d clap and yell as loud as I could. Pretty obnoxious, right? Yeah, I know. When our train was ready, I got in the front row with Shawn, Joe and Priscilla. I can’t remember who was in the back row, but I think Steve and Ross were there. I honestly can’t remember. “Oh yeah, here we go” became my tagline for the rest of the trip during ERT sessions, so I let another one of those go when we left the station. I started giving an on-ride commentary for everyone on board. I’d describe everything from drive tires to chain dogs while we were riding. Going up the lift hill I said, “Straight up. You know what that means? STRAIGHT! DOWN!” None of my friends had any idea that I was going to do this, so they were laughing hysterically throughout the entire ride. I was later told by Robb and Garbels that they could hear me all the way on the other side of the park. I guess I never realized how loud I could be! I know that reading this won’t do it justice, unfortunately, but it was one of my favorite moments of the trip. Too bad we don’t have video of it, so you’ll just have to trust me. With our ride ending, I let everyone know that we were at the “BRAKE RUN!!!” Luckily, Matt was there to get a picture of us at the end of our ride. What just happened? Shawn and Joe are crying... We spent the next 30 minutes or so trying to come up with the best possible way to make Tom Cat spin like crazy. After a couple of rides, along with some on-ride commentary, Shawn and I found the perfect combination. Everyone had been trying to do 2 big people on one side, and a small person on the other. We decided that Shawn and I would sit on the same side, with no one else in the car. The first time we did it, it was probably the craziest ride that I’ve ever had on a spinning coaster. It was absolutely insane! I couldn’t even give any commentary to Shawn, all I could do was laugh and scream throughout the entire ride. When we got back to the station, we told everyone that this was the best combination to try. Many insane rides were given that day during ERT! For the remainder of ERT, we just kept going back and forth between the Euro-Fighter and the spinning coaster. I tried to keep coming up with new ways to be obnoxious, and I think it was working pretty well. A train pulled into the station on the Euro-Fighter so I said, “Party of 8. Your table of fun is ready!” Or when I was leaving the station on Tom Cat and yelled back to Shawn, “TIME FOR THE SPIN CYCLE!!” I think I’d only met about ½ of the trip participants by this time of the trip, so I’m guessing that day was a lot of people’s first impressions of me. That’s probably not a good thing, but I’ll have to live with that. SPIN CYCLE!!!! I’m not sure what happened at the end of ERT, but some of our group got separated from us. Instead of worrying too much about it, we figured we’d run into them eventually. We were right. Not long into our walk around the park, we ran into Steve, Priscilla, Bill and some others. Steve was sweating and kind of out of breath, so I asked him what the hell was wrong. He had just come from the park’s obstacle course. I made the mistake of giving him crap for being out of shape, and before I knew it I was being challenged to do the course now. Great. I go to the gym and workout, and I’ve lost a lot of weight the last couple of years, but that still doesn’t mean my giant body is built for doing obstacle courses. Of course, I’m too stubborn to back down from a challenge, so I went over to the course and completely embarrassed myself. Anything associated with balance is basically a lost cause for me. I’m 6’6” and I wear size 15 shoes, so walking across anything besides a sidewalk can be difficult for me. Thankfully, the course wasn’t too long, but I’d done plenty of things to make the rest of the group laugh at my expense. There might be video of it somewhere, but I can’t remember. I hope not! Great start! EB shook the ladder. Finding a hidden Mickey. Thanks for taking my picture, Ross! Now that I was sweating and out of breath, it was time to find a little less strenuous activity. Unfortunately, the next thing we came to was a little race track with tiny bikes. I guess they were closer to big wheels than bikes, but I’m just going to call them bikes. A few of us grabbed one and started riding. I failed to notice that my tires were flat, and it made it about twice as difficult to pedal as a normal bike. Steve’s was perfectly fine, so he spent the entire time ramming into mine from behind at full speed, laughing the entire way around the track. There was even a small tunnel that you went through, and I was seriously concerned that I was going to be too tall to get through it. It was close, but I made it. Enough of that exercise crap! I’m on vacation. Let’s go find some rides! On our way back to the main ride area, we saw some really strange things. A few of the characters in the park would never be allowed in America. If you know anything about this park, then you’ve probably seen the cow with enormous exposed breasts. She used to be more prevalent, but there’s only one place that you can find her now. We were lucky enough to walk right past her so I could get a picture. There’s just a ton of weird things going on in this park. Sadly, some of the water rides look like they’ve seen better days. The park’s rapids ride looks like it hasn’t been open for awhile, and the flume ride looked really run down. There’s no way I was going to ride it. Great. Now I'm thirsty. That's a big beaver. HARDY HAR HAR I hate that thing. The park has an enormous Frisbee ride, named Svend the Swinging Arm, which is themed to some giant cartoon spider. I’ve only done MaxAir at Cedar Point, and I thought it was fun so I was ready to give this one a ride as well. This thing was incredible! The park runs it on a really long cycle, and there are several moments where you’re almost completely inverted during the ride. It seemed like everyone on the trip thought it was one of the best that they’d ever experienced. The ride op also cracked me up. He was probably in his 50s, and he had two huge tattoos on his calves. On each of his legs he had one of the characters from the park. When he checked my restraint, he looked at me and said, “Just so you know. You’re allowed to yell on this ride, too.” He chuckled to himself and walked away. I didn’t know what he was talking about at first, but then I realized that he’d been working the Euro-Fighter during ERT. I guess I left an impression on him! Oh, back to the tattoos. He had the Boar on one calf, and the spider on the other calf. Those were the two rides that he worked. I thought it was kind of cool that he enjoyed his job that much! I’m sure as hell not going to get my company’s logo tattooed on my body any time soon! This thing kicked ass! Standing just a few hundred feet away was The Cobra Tower, which is a mid-sized drop tower. I’ll never understand how I can ride drop towers and coasters, but my fear of heights won’t allow me to ride a star flyer. Drop towers really don’t bother me too much, because I know we’re coming down soon. This wasn’t anything earth shattering, but I always enjoy a good drop tower. I re-rode because there was an empty seat next to Shawn. I’d completely forgotten that Shawn hates drop towers, so I was really happy to be seated next to him during the ride. See, last year on the Texas/Midwest trip, my friends made me ride 2 of the star flyers, including the 400 foot tall one at SFOT. They laughed and laughed at me while I was terrified the entire time. Payback’s a bitch, huh Shawn? While we were at the top waiting to drop, I kept acting like we were going to fall. Making the car shake and screaming. He didn’t think it was as funny as I did, but I don’t really care. Love you, Shawn! For some reason we all wanted to ride the Frisbee again, so we went and did just that. Still awesome. That’s really all I can say about it. I’d like to see more of these models come to the US. After another great ride, we ran into another group of TPR members heading towards the Disk-O. I’d never been on one before, so I was excited to try it out. Elissa came over to me and quietly said, “OK, I don’t get the joke. Who are you making fun of?” I told you that I’m normally a low key person! I explained that I was just trying to have fun, that the group seemed kind of tired at the morning ERT. She mentioned something about me being on crack. A huge group of us got in line for a TPR takeover of the Disko. As luck would have it, I was the only person that didn’t get on. I was busy leaving my wallet and phone with some non-riders, so I entered the queue last. That was disappointing. While I was waiting, I heard someone say, “Is this Thad’s phone.” I turned around in time to see Elissa taking a picture of Soupy’s ass. Don’t trust anyone with your stuff on these trips. I immediately deleted the picture when I got my phone back, but I wish I would’ve kept it to use in this report. Lesson learned! Back to the ride… When the Disko was finished with its, I begged a few people to stay behind and ride with me. Robb, KT and Steve stayed behind to ride. Robb had the video camera out, so he told Kristen that she needed to scream louder than me during the ride. Challenge accepted! I’ll just say that it didn’t go well for KT. I’m pretty sure that I won the contest! The Disko wasn’t really as exciting as I’d hoped. Are they all the same, or was this one a tamer version? More odd theming. I think this used to be the cow with the breasts hanging out. Is that correct? My first disko. Meh. I got to ride with KT. She was supposed yell louder than me, but she couldn't do it. (Thanks to TPR for the photo) Our enormous group started walking around looking for something else to ride. As luck would have it, there was a wave swinger themed to some crazy turtle not too far away. All of us were able to get on the same ride, and Garbels and I were talked into sharing one of the two seater swings. I’m not sure if they’re designed to hold that much weight, but I was really hoping those chains were stronger than they looked throughout the entire ride. I was pretty sure that we were going to end up on some TV show like “When Amusement Rides Go Bad.” Fortunately, we survived our ride, and I think I even gave Garbels a kiss on the cheek for good measure. Jake told a lot of people that this was his favorite moment of the trip. Pretty sad. (Thanks to TPR for the photo) Just wait, our morning gets even dumber. The park has a slow moving boat ride that takes you through some questionably un-PC scenes of animals. I didn’t have my camera out during our ride, but it was really strange. The highlight of this attraction was our idea to have a fat boat. Robb, Soupy, EB, Darin, Steve, Jere, Garbels and I all got in the same boat. This seemed like a really good idea at the time. Once we left the station, we immediately regretted it. I honestly thought we were going to capsize a few times. The boat was so heavy that the floats on the boat were submerged. I’ve never seen anything like it. You could feel the boat dragging along the trough for our entire ride, and the boat moved at a snail’s pace! By time the ride ended, two other boats had caught up to us. We’d started a traffic jam! Luckily, the other boats had TPR people in them, so we weren’t upsetting any of the normal park guests. Whew! The ride attendant gave us a disapproving look as we came back into the station, so I got out of there as fast as I could. I know that there’s video of this entire ride, so it might surface at some point. Fat boat. (Another TPR photo) The large group disbanded because it was nearing lunch time. Everyone wanted something different, so we just kind of broke off into groups and went looking for food. Only one restaurant was open, so the group ended up at the same place. It was your standard burgers, hot dogs, chicken nuggets and fries counter service restaurant. Unfortunately the 69 Kroner pizza meal deal couldn’t be found, even though there were signs all over the park for it. 69!!! Get it?!? The food was actually decent, but I felt bad for the 3 employees who got slammed by our group. They handled it pretty well, and food was coming out at a decent rate. Kudos to them! There was a huge area with plenty seating right next to the restaurant, so we found a table and sat down. It was actually pretty nice, but there was a shrieking bird sound that would go off every few seconds. We later found out that they use it to keep birds away, but I think I’d rather deal with the birds than listen to that thing scream every 30 seconds! It was really annoying. After lunch was over, some of our group wanted to try out the flume ride. I’ll pass. The benches near the ride looked pretty nice, so I tried those out for a few minutes. Kind of disgusting, if you ask me. No thanks. Once my friends finished riding the gross water ride, some of them wanted to try out one of the horse on rail rides. I sat out on this one as well, choosing to take embarrassing pictures of all of them riding this stupid thing. Oh, Priscilla said that this was the best ride in the park, but I’ll let her explain why… Alan looks really excited. I don't know what Jake is doing. Yee haw, Shawn. Jere lives in Wyoming. I think they ride horses to work. (Hey, it's one of the few states that Iowa can make fun of!) Priscilla was a big fan of this ride. Steve's used to riding koalas, but this will do. Hi, EB! EB again. Joe says, "Sup Bro?" No words can even describe what Ross is doing. Having done most of the rides, we set our sights on getting some souvenirs. I started collecting fridge magnets a couple of years ago. They’re cheap, don’t take up much room, and I can usually find one at each park that I visit. Someone told us that the huge candy shop also had the most souvenirs in the park. They were right. The store was huge, and filled to the brim with a lot of crazy toys, shirts and candy. I ended up finding a magnet that I liked, and bought my 5 year old niece a Henry stuffed animal, along with a whoopee cushion with Henry on it. She loves farts, so I knew this would be right up her alley. In case you were wondering, she thought they were both great gifts! We spent a long time in the shop, mainly because someone couldn’t get their credit card to work. Ahem… Shawn. While I waited, I walked around the store looking at all of the creepy animatronics and stuffed characters. Seriously, some of them were really scary. Eventually he got it to go through, so we could go check out the last few rides we hadn’t seen yet. Pee pee pants hippo. Creepy gorilla. Slutty pig. I thought it would be funny to take my picture with a coffee mug that had the name Thor on it. It's pretty hilarious, especially when I don't turn the mug the right direction. Idiot. I watched this thing eat for about 3 minutes. It was really intoxicating for some reason. There's a lot going on with this bathroom sign. I could probably talk about all of my questions for 10 minutes, but we don't have that much time. See, this make sense. The ant is pissing in the bucket. Got it. On the bus, Robb had told us to make sure to check out the kiddie drop tower, The Crow Trees. It was on the other side of the park, so we started walking over to it. We passed the Frisbee on the way there, and a few of us took one last ride on it. I loved that thing! The Crow Trees were a long way away, but we eventually got there. I won’t ruin the surprise, but if you’re ever at the park, you should make sure you ride this thing. It’s pretty cool. That’s all I can say. I’m glad we made sure to ride it! Back row: Ben, Victor, Stacy, Jere, EB, Cary Front: Shawn and Ross doing something weird, Jake not paying attention, Adrian being a douche, Chris and Alan being normal. Me and my little buddy Joe! There was only one area of the park that we hadn’t walked through yet… Drum roll, please… A Wild West area! YES! It was actually pretty well done. The main draw was yet another Desperado ride, with the exact same storyline as the one at Bakken. Steve sat this round out for some reason. Priscilla later told us that he probably didn’t ride it because he’d had the high score at Bakken, and if he played again someone might beat him. Talk about competitive. What a loser! I made sure to ride in the front row this time, and ended up with one of the top scores. Much better! We found Steve outside, and gave him some crap about not riding. Of course, he denied it. Lame. Another well themed Wild West area. It was time to start working our way back to the front of the park, because the bus was leaving at 3:30. On the way back to the entrance, there was a huge purple octopus ride. I don’t know what I thought it would be, but had I known, I wouldn’t have told everyone to ride it. It was a kid’s boat ride. That’s it. No spinning or anything. There we were, about 12-15 adults, riding this stupid kiddie ride. While we were on it, a family with small children got in line, and looked at us like they were really confused. Sorry, everyone. My fault! Not sure what we were thinking. We had about 90 minutes to waste. There was a 4D theater by the entrance, and the show was going to start soon. We entered the building, not having any idea what was inside. Lucky us, it was some crappy Ice Age 3D movie. To top it off, it was all in Danish! Quite a few of our group decided to take a nap. I wanted to, but couldn’t fall asleep with the annoying sneeze gag that kept shooting water at the audience. How many times can something sneeze on you in 20 minutes? I think it was 5 or 6, but I lost count pretty early on. Next time, we’ll have to see if the show is in English before we go in. Right next door to the 4D theater was a really strange building called Fantasy World. Fantasy World is enormous. It’s all inside, and there are several rooms that have different themes. Jungles, Winter, Caves, you name it. All of it was creepy as hell. This is the kind of place where you’d film a horror movie. Some kids get locked in there after the park closes, and the animals all come to life and kill them. At least, that’s what the place made me think of. I tried to find a bathroom, and it took me down the longest hallway I’ve ever seen, like something out of The Shining. Every few feet, there was a really scary looking anthropomorphic animal standing there. I finally found the bathroom, and got the hell out of there. I haven’t slept since that day. One last look at Henry. Huh? This was creepy. Probably the weirdest thing in the whole building. Liver Lips? Don't look into its eyes. Seriously, how creepy is this? Where the hell is the bathroom? This is getting really weird. The more I look at this, the scarier it gets. Some people wanted to buy some more souvenirs since we had a little time before we had to leave, but I just sat down with some TPR members on a bench by the exit. When the time came, everyone headed out to the buses, ready for our trip to the ferry dock. Tonight we were going to be crossing over to Germany via a ferry. I’d done a couple of ferries when I was in Europe many years ago, but that was the last time I’d been on a boat that big. It didn’t take too long for us to get there, so we had to wait a few minutes before they let the bus drive on the boat. Once we were parked, we made note of where the bus was. Everyone was on their own for the next couple of hours. A few of us staked out some tables on the top floor exterior area, because the weather was pretty nice that day. Others went down to the duty free shop to get some beer to enjoy while we were crossing the water. The boat didn’t take too long, and before we knew what happened, it was time to get back on the bus for our drive to the hotel we were staying at for the evening. Waiting for the bus to load onto the ferry. Finally on the ship! Out at sea. People just relaxing and having some drinks. It was pretty nice that day. A little windy, but we stayed outside for the entire ride. The German countryside was pretty. Lots of fields and windmills, just like the rest of Europe that we’d seen. You could tell that we were in the middle of nowhere again. When we got to the hotel, it was one of the only things at that exit. This was a mom and pop kind of operation at the hotel. There was a definite charm to the place. They flew the American Flag for us! Suck it everyone else on the trip! USA! USA! USA! They also made us a huge BBQ dinner that evening, just for our group. It was delicious. Lots of different meats were being cooked on the grill out behind the lobby. Tons of sides and a few dessert offerings were available, but it seemed like our group was a little more interested in drinking some alcohol. Not long before the trip, I’d started taking some medication that I’m not supposed to drink alcohol with. Let’s just say I learned why my doctor warned me about it. The beers were going down pretty well, when someone asked the waitress if they had any shots at the bar. She said that they had Jägermeister. Cary ordered 10 shots for the table. Nice! When the waitress came by, Cary asked how much the shots were going to cost. The waitress replied, “Two fifty.” Now, when we heard this, we thought she was saying that it would be two hundred and fifty euro. We were freaking out. Everyone was offering to give Cary money so that he wouldn’t have to cover all of it on his own. Luckily, we later found out that the shots were each 2.50, so the total was really only 25 for all of them. Wait, what? That’s really cheap! The rest of the night basically turned into Jager night. Was this the best idea we’ve ever had? No. Not even close. Was it fun? Yes. Yes it was. As usual, the crowd turned on me for some reason. The toast of the night became “F**k Thad!” I’d even yell it each time. If I’m being honest, I don’t even like myself, so I agreed with the toast. This is where things start to get a little hazy for me. I know it was getting pretty late. Lots of people were heading to bed, and yet I just kept going for some reason. One beer wasn't enough for Steve. Beer foam or Ross? You decide. Theme Park Review's Vine of us doing shots. Yuck. [vine] [/vine] A totally rude and unnecessary toast by Priscilla. Thanks again to TPR for the Vine. [vine] [/vine] I don’t remember thinking it was all that late, and then one of the servers mentioned that it was already 1:45, and they were supposed to close at 1. I felt really bad, so I left so they could go home. There were only 3 of us left at that point. Me, AJ and Michael. Since I was staying the guest house area of the hotel, I had to wander back into the forest to find my room. At 2 am, in the pitch black of night, it’s pretty hard to find your room when you’re drunk. I dropped my iPhone on the gravel and cracked the screen, and I also couldn’t find any of the guest house buildings. I was completely lost! Starting to freak out, I made my way back towards the main building, hoping I’d run in to someone. It didn’t take long until I saw Michael. Lucky for me, he was heading back to the guest houses as well. He showed me the path I needed to take, which was about 2 feet from where I’d been standing. I keep telling you this, but I can be a real idiot on TPR trips. Thanks for helping me out, Michael! Somehow I found my room, and was in bed around 2:15. What a great day. I wonder how tomorrow will go since I’m completely hammered and I have to wake up in 4 hours. Spoiler alert… Not well. Tune in for the Hansa Park update to hear more about the worst morning of my life.

^I'm working on it! I should hopefully have it finished tonight. Sorry, got sidetracked with some of my charity stuff last night.

Nice update, Bill. I laughed at the marshamallow comment, because every time I saw those I'd think the same thing. Balder + Helix = Awesome.

Reese's Xtreme Cup Challenge Pretty awful ride. It's too bad that the person who showed me around the park on my first visit made me ride it 4 or 5 times... It's all part of the initiation process! I'd never made the connection, but Larry and The Joker do look and sound alike.

At least I have my own category and I'm not lumped in with the ugly! **After reading that, it might sound like I'm saying Caeser is ugly. That's not the intent...

I don't know, Caeser... I think 0 sounds like the right amount of pictures of you.

I started working on it last night, so I'll hopefully get it posted tonight.

Reese's Xtreme Cup Challenge Pretty awful ride. It's too bad that the person who showed me around the park on my first visit made me ride it 4 or 5 times...

Nice report! Liseberg is probably my favorite non-Disney park in the world. Balder and Helix are tough to beat.

^After dealing with both groups, I'd vote for the Dapper Days people. That was ridiculous last year.

Thanks, David! Unfortunately, there weren't any knee-bagging episodes on this trip.

Great move by SDC. This really makes it a park for all ages. Even more things for young kids to do, and a lot of thrilling rides as well.

Thanks for the comments, except for Dave. I love that picture, Bill! Bon Bon Land is next. OHHHH YEAH! HERE WE GO!!!

I share your opinion on Boulder Dash. Really good ride, but not the amazing experience that I'd always heard about. Maybe I need to get some night rides on it.

Great start, Chuck! Can't wait to read the rest. I always enjoy your trip reports.

Day 4 – Tivoli Gardens When I signed up for the Scandinavia Trip, I think I’d only really heard of two of the parks. The first was Grona Lund in Stockholm, and the other park was Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen. Tivoli is one of those parks that I’ve read about throughout my lifetime, mostly stemming from my strange fascination with Walt Disney World. It’s fairly well known that Walt himself visited Tivoli, and liked it so much that it was part of his inspiration to build Disneyland. While visiting Busch Gardens Williamsburg this past spring, Shawn and I were discussing the Scandi tour with people working in the Scandinavian Food and Wine kiosk, and each of them mentioned that we needed to visit Tivoli while we were there. It really is an important part of Copenhagen. The employees and guest both seem to take great pride in this park, and it really is one of the best that I’ve ever visited. The group met in front of the hotel at 8:45 am, as it was only about a ½ mile walk to the park entrance. While it’s easy to see some of the larger rides from a few blocks away, you might not even realize that you’re standing outside of an amusement park when you’re by the front gate. My first night in Copenhagen I walked right past it without noticing. Someone in my group had to point it out to me! I absolutely loved Tivoli’s front entrance. Stunning... The park president (or was she the owner?) met us at the gate, and welcomed us to the park. She was celebrating her 50th birthday, and wasn’t supposed to be at the park that day. Apparently, she wanted to make sure she stopped by to say hello since Theme Park Review was there. What a nice touch! After talking to us for a bit, she introduced us to Jakob and left us in his hands. Jakob is the ride supervisor for the park’s Scenic Railway, Rutschebanen (translated = Roller Coaster). He was excited to meet us because he’s a huge coaster enthusiast, and an avid reader of Theme Park Review. Jakob was going to walk us to the back of the park and let us get some ERT on Daemonen. After that, we were going to get a backstage tour of the recently renovated Rutschebanen. Sounds like a great start to the day! Lots of open grass areas. Lots of well themed areas. Daemonen (Demon) is a B&M Floorless coaster, and it just happened to be the only B&M on our trip. Seems kind of crazy when you think about how many there are in American parks, but it was nice to get away from some of the standard rides that we have over here. Back to Daemonen… Since Tivoli is landlocked inside of the city, the park had to find a way to drop a B&M in there without taking up too much room. This is easily one of B&M’s craziest designs, including a strange helix drop coming off of the lift hill. Daemonen is short and very compact, but a fun ride nonetheless. It’s not going to be the craziest ride you’ve ever been on, but it’s a lot of fun. We all had a couple of rides on it before it was time to move on to the backstage tour over at Rutschebanen. Coming down the helix drop. The actual drop. It's a loop. Inverting again. The mountain and loading station. Now, I’m normally not a huge fan of the backstage tours that we get to do on TPR trips, regardless of what TPDave and Robb seem to think about my coaster nerddom. Because of this, I end up skipping out on a lot of them. This was one of the best tours that I’ve done, though. Jakob led the entire group through the inside of the mountain. We walked through random hallways and climbed up a few staircases, stopping on occasion to go into more detail about some of the things we were looking at. After a few minutes of climbing, we found ourselves in the workshop where they do maintenance on the trains. People took turns sitting in the brakeman seat and getting their picture. For some reason, no one in my group did this. After people nerded out, it was time to finish the climb to the top of the mountain. Jakob gathered us outside on the roof of the show building so he could tell us all about the changes they’d made for the 100th anniversary of the ride. The park decided to restore the top of the mountain to its former glory, and it looked fantastic. It’s really great to see how much care they put in to this amazing ride. Why do I love backstage tours? DISHES!!! And you get to see things like this as well. On top of the show building. Nerds gathering. Something must be interesting to my left. The freshly renovated mountain top. Copenhagen from the roof. Here comes the first train! After the presentation and some Q&A, Jakob had a bit of a surprise for our group. One of the trains came up the lift hill and made its way over to the tunnel that we were standing near. They were going to load the trains with our group on top of the mountain! Very cool! I don’t think I’ve ever had a ½ credit before! It took a few minutes to get the entire group on the ride, but it was worth the wait. For being 100 years old, this thing ran really, really well. Super smooth, and with the right brakeman (or woman), you could get some pretty nice airtime. One lesson we learned quickly in Europe… The ride envelope is quite a bit smaller than it is over here in the US. You know all of those headchoppers we have, where you can leave your hands up and not get injured? Well, I wouldn’t feel quite as safe in Europe. One of the drops dives into a tunnel, and I could see that there was no way I could leave my hands up. Luckily, I pulled mine down before I made contact. Aussie Steve wasn’t quite as lucky. He told me that he hit the top of the entrance pretty hard. Jakob even asked him if he was OK after the ride because he saw him hit it. Luckily, there weren’t any injuries, but it definitely made me stay alert during the rest of the trip! Brakeman A questionable fashion choice. When we finished riding, the park gave us about 30 minutes of ERT on Rutschebanen. After being a little disappointed with Bakken’s version, I’m very happy to say that I loved this ride. It’s really well themed, and the brakemen really know how to run the ride to perfection. I got about 3 rides in before it was time for the park to open. Robb had mentioned that the Plane-On-A-Stick ride was a capacity nightmare, and that it was a good idea to ride it right away that morning. Everyone made their way to the ticket booths so we could cash in our voucher and receive our ride wristbands. Once we’d been given the bands, my group made its way over to Vertigo, aka Plane-On-A-Stick. As usual, our group was the last one to wander over to the ride. Almost the entire queue had been filled by TPR members. Since each of the ride vehicles only held 4 people, we knew it was going to be a long wait. Both Aussie Steve and I mentioned that we should just come back later, because the line was going to take forever (REMEMBER THIS!!!). Our group was pretty fluid at Tivoli, so I’m having trouble remembering who was there for most of the day. Off the top of my head I know that Aussie Steve, Priscella, Joe, Chris, Alan, Cary and other Steve, aka Nozzy(Nozzy) were with us. Throughout the day, Bill (Nrthwnd) would join us for a ride or two, then disappear. Shawn and Ross were around sometimes, but mostly went off with a different group of people. It was a nice break from them  The line took FOREVER… At the very least, the ride was nice and long. I think this was probably the longest wait I had on our entire trip, nearing the hour mark. Had we just come back later in the day, I don’t think we would’ve waited more than 15-20 minutes. Another important lesson… You should listen to me. All. The. Time. It was finally our turn to board, and we were a little worried about the restraints since some of the group had issues getting into their seats. No problem for me, surprisingly. Truth be told, I was a little worried about this ride because it looked so insane. Deep down, I kind of wanted to get booted off for not fitting, but we got the OK and the plane started to spin without any warning. While the plane started spinning right to left, the huge arm that it’s attached to started doing revolutions as well. At first, it moved pretty slowly. After that, it went faster and faster until you were stapled to your seat from the intense G-forces. This thing was amazing! The ride ends with the airplane facing straight forward while you do loop after loop in succession. We were told that the ride pulls over 5 Gs, and I have no problem believing that. This is such a great ride, and I hope they can figure out how to make more of them with a little better capacity. Everyone should get to try one of these out! Pulling 5 Gs. Spinning and looping. Having ridden the insane Vertigo, my group turned its sights to an even bigger thrill. The kiddie coaster in the park! I chose to stay behind and shoot some video of Vertigo, and they met up with me when they were finished. Since the kiddie coaster is hard to photograph, I don’t have any pictures to mock others with. Sorry, I know you all look forward to my public shaming of credit whores. There will be plenty more opportunities throughout this trip! We all met up, and decided we wanted to try The Monsoon. It’s basically an inverted Falling Star. Tivoli went the extra mile by adding water jets that would shoot up from the ground, making it look like your feet would get wet. Not the most amazing ride I’ve ever been on, but I liked it more than the normal version of the flat ride. I’ve never seen one of these, so I’m not sure how common they are. Does anyone know? I stole this from Tivoli's website. A giraffe? It was time to start exploring the rest of the park. We headed towards the side of the park with more rides, and the first one that we happened upon was The Flying Trunk. The Flying Trunk is a Hans Christian Andersen themed dark ride. From the outside, it was hard to tell what was going on inside the building. On the building’s façade, there was a never ending parade of characters from his stories that would rotate past you. When you step inside the entrance to the building, you’re actually taken down a circular staircase towards the loading platform. Robb mentioned that morning that the ride will do Danish and English, you just need to make sure to switch it at the start of the ride. Joe and I hopped into our trunk, and started looking for the language button. Of course, since we’re both idiots, we couldn’t find it. The narrator started speaking in Danish, and I started to panic. This was going to be a LONG ride if I couldn’t understand what they were saying. After about 10 seconds, I looked up and saw the switch on the ride vehicle’s ceiling and flipped it over to English. Ahhhh. That’s better. For a smaller park, this ride was really well done. I wouldn’t say that it’s quite on par with a Disney attraction, but it wasn’t that far off. I’d say that it closely resembled Peter Pan’s flight, if you’ve visited any of the Disney parks. The ride took you through several scenes, each relating to one of Andersen’s famous stories. I know I’m missing quite a few, but I can remember The Little Mermaid, The Princess and the Pea and The Snow Queen all being featured. It’s a pretty lengthy ride, so even if you have to wait a few minutes it’s well worth it. The narrator was kind of goofy, including a part of the ride where he started to talk about one of the stories, then said something like, “Well, we don’t time for that. Let’s go to the next story!” It was very quirky, indeed. Front entrance. Characters on parade. Oooohhhh. Flying Trunk makes a lot more sense now. Not sure what this is from. I think every straight man/boy has waited a long time to see this. No idea what this is. I don't remember any of these pictures. Mulan If you look closely, you can see Robb masturbating in the background. Elsa? Some sort of rooftop. Does anyone know what these are? I really should've listened better. Joe just kept talking, though. Princess and the Pea? Or was this it? That Hans Christian Andersen's actual body. It was almost time for lunch, so we started scoping out possible food options. While we were looking for something to eat, we came cross the park’s funhouse. Of course, we all thought it was a good idea to go in there before we ate. There were some cool things inside of Tivoli’s attraction, but it was set up quite a bit differently than any other that we’d see on this trip. Instead of being lead through the house by following a path, this was just a huge open room with all of the different obstacles located inside of it. I think there were 3 different levels, with everything from slides, to the moving stairways, as well as the ever popular hamster wheel. I’m not sure why, but every time I’ve seen one of these I’ve been able to talk someone into trying to get spun upside down. I don’t even think it’s possible, but people try it every time. It’s always good for a laugh, and sometimes a few injuries! Climbing the moving steps. Careful on these. (More on this later) A slide. Now that we’d had our fun, it was time to take a break and get some lunch. We had a food voucher that was good at several of the counter service restaurants in the park. About half of our group decided to try out the pita place (I think they were pitas), and the rest of us ended up going to the burger place. Once again, I used my superior intelligence while making this decision… I ordered a bacon cheeseburger meal, and as I started eating it I realized that I was going to have a bacon cheeseburger for dinner that night. The group was heading to Hard Rock Café, and we had to make our selection a couple of months before the trip. I, of course, had forgotten about this. Good thing I like burgers! The burger was pretty decent, but the fries in Denmark were a little disappointing. They cook them in a different way than we do in the states, and there was just something off about most of the fries that I had while I was there. How dare they don’t conform to American standards! While eating, we ended up adding another person to our group. Ben (Coaster Dooey) had met some of our group at Noma on the first night of the trip, so we welcomed him aboard. One of the paths in the park. Looking for lunch. After lunch, a few of us decided to head back to the hotel and take a little break, coming back right before dinner. Having a hotel within walking distance of the park is such a rare treat, that I always try to get a nap in when I have the chance. On the way out of the park, there was some sort of parade with a marching band. I’m not sure what the significance was, but it seemed like they were pretty popular with the locals. What's that? Some sort of parade! Feeling refreshed, we headed back towards the park around dinner time. The group was meeting outside of the Hard Rock entrance, located just outside of Tivoli Gardens. While we were waiting to get seated, our group was approached by a man who saw the Theme Park Review bags that we were all carrying. He told us how he read the site every day, and loved watching all of our videos. I made sure to mention that we didn’t work for the company, and told him that we were part of the Scandinavia tour. I’m not sure if he understood what we were trying to say, but he ended up asking if he could get his picture with us, so we obliged. He went on his way shortly after. I wish I would’ve at least got a picture of him with my phone. Dinner at Hard Rock was pretty standard if you’ve ever eaten at one. I really liked the nachos that they brought out as an appetizer, and my burger was actually pretty tasty as well. It was time to head back into the park to do a little more exploring. We walked in the front entrance and decided to check out some of the landscaping. Tivoli really is one of the most beautiful parks I’ve ever seen. It’s really well taken care of, and even the park guests seem to respect it. I really wish more American park guests would behave like this. We probably spent a good 25-30 minutes just checking out the front of the park. When the group had seen enough, we made our way to the back of the park to ride some of the flat rides that we’d missed earlier in the day. Beautiful building. Exotic birds walking around. A mixture of beautiful architecture and landscaping. It looks like a city park. More birds... More birds... You can't keep all of the trash out of the park. Right, Steve? Pretty... Large concert area. More open areas. Fountains. More fountains. Tried a panoramic. I'm pretty talented. At dinner, someone was telling our group about the insane bumper cars that Tivoli had. Now, I’d never really been a huge bumper car fan until I first visited Knoebels in 2012. After seeing what real bumper cars were like, I’d been itching to try out some of the European park’s cars. Tivoli didn’t disappoint. The cars themselves were huge. They were basically like tanks. I think there was supposed to be some sort of laser tag game going on during the ride, but it didn’t really work, and we were too busy trying to kill each other to notice. Somehow, all of the bigger people ended up in the same group, so the collisions were pretty fantastic. I came up with several bruises on my legs, and the seat belt had acted a lot like a noose. There were a few times that the belt really dug into my neck/shoulder area. It looked like I had a floor burn on my neck after we’d finished with our turn. It was fun, but it wasn’t something that I could’ve done more than once or twice that day. Since we were right next to the powered coaster, Odinexpressen, we thought it would be a good time to get the final “credit”. Since it’s powered, none of us actually consider it a credit, but I was excited to ride it since I’d never been on a powered coaster. The ride op running Odinexpressen was pretty fun to watch. He was an older gentleman, probably in his early 60s. He would wait for some teenagers to start talking to each other, not paying attention. Once they weren’t watching him anymore, he’d sneak up on them and yell in their ear. It got a reaction every time, and he’d clearly perfected this skill. Being a jerk, I thought it was hilarious. Once the ride started, the train climbed up the hill, and made its way over to a helix. The ride was a lot of fun, and you cycled through it 3 times, ending with a tunnel! We ended up riding it again later in the evening because we enjoyed it so much! I forgot to get a picture of Odinexpressen, so I took this off of Tivoli's website. I'm sorry. Right next to Odinexpressen was Nautilus. Nautilus was basically a Dumbo ride, but themed to the sea. Actually, it reminds me of One Fish, Two Fish at Islands of Adventure, if you’ve ever been there. I’m not even sure why we rode it, to be honest, but it ended up being one of the more enjoyable moments of the trip for me. See, I get a lot of crap from people because I don’t smile very often. It’s odd, because I feel like a laugh a lot, but most pictures of me make it look like I’m pretty miserable. My default face is pretty similar to Grumpy Cat. My friends back home refer to it as BSF, or Bargie Sad Face, for those of you not in the know. Priscilla seemed to really enjoy it, for some reason. She even started calling me things like Grumpy Cat, and also telling me that I’m just a “miserable f**k”. Fair enough. Our group wasn’t able to get on the same ride circuit, so I was left standing and watching while the first group went. For some reason, I just stared at Joe and Priscilla the entire time, making the most deadpan face that I possibly could. Each time they’d come around, they’d see me and completely lose it. I’m sure it’s not that funny to read, but you have to trust me, it was pretty hilarious. I did the same thing while I rode the ride. It actually became pretty difficult to keep a straight face each time, so I started smiling whenever they couldn’t see me just so I could get it out of my system. I guess it’s the little things that make these things so much fun! Nautilus. From Tivoli's website. Not a very good Photo TR, is it? Some other things that we took a ride on included: -The Spinning Top, a Break Dance (I think, I’m not good with flat ride names). The ride op from Odinexpressen was working this ride while we were there, and I got to watch him scare some more teenagers! I love that guy! -The Mine, an interactive shooting water ride where the guns looked like some sort of vibrator. No joke. This was pretty well done, but it seemed like the guns were pretty hit or miss. I’m pretty sure mine was broken. -The Galley Ships, a Matterhorn type ride with a ship in the middle that actually fired smoke out of cannons during the ride. -Aquila, an Air Race ride, that 4 of us were too fat to ride. At least I wasn’t the only one!  -Some of the group rode the park’s Star Flyer, but since I hate them more than any other ride, I took a bathroom break instead. The park's Air Racer. One of these days I'll ride one of these. The pirate ship that shot smoke out during the ride. Notice the pirate that's puking over the side. We were starting to run out of daylight, so we made all thought it would be fun to check out Daemonen at night. The lights were just starting to come on in the park, and it really changes the environment. I’m not sure that I’ve ever seen a more beautiful park at night. There are lights EVERYWHERE, and it’s not tacky, either. Daemonen was a walk on, so it made it even more enjoyable. No difference from the earlier rides that we had that morning, but like I said, it’s fun. Some people wanted to check out the park’s drop tower, me included. I’d heard that the views of Copenhagen were stunning from the top of the ride, and that was proven to be true. Sadly, you don’t get very long to check it out, but it’s probably the best view I’ve had from the top of a drop tower. Quick side story… Now, I’m the kind of guy that just has weird things happen to me. It happens all the time, and it’s always the most random thing you can imagine. I rode this with Cary and Bill, and the 4th seat was taken by a young girl, probably around the age of 10. The ride op was having trouble getting my restraint to click, so he had me switch seats with Bill because the seat belt was longer. When he released the restraints, the girl took off, running from the ride. I’m pretty sure she actually jumped over the exit gate. I have no idea what spooked her, but that’s not where the weirdness stopped. Right as we were about to get lifted to the top of the tower, the girl came back with her older sister and mom. They stood right in front of us, staring at me the entire time. Bill and Cary were both freaked out as well. After the ride finished, we were getting lowered to the ground and I noticed that they were still standing there, still staring right at me. They finally started to walk away, but they never stopped watching me the whole time. Finally, I gave them a wave. The oldest daughter smiled and waved back, and they left. I have absolutely no idea what happened, but it was one of the strangest things I’ve ever been a part of. The drop tower is located right next to the Plane-On-A-Stick, and the line was short, so our group wanted to try out the backwards program. It was only about a 10-15 minute wait, (See, Steve and I were right!) so it wasn’t long until we were on the ride. I’d have to say that the forward program was much better. Backward wasn’t all that intense for some reason, but it was still a fun ride. The only part I didn’t really enjoy was being hung upside down for a few seconds at the end of the cycle. I never like how that feels. With the sun continuing to set, we headed over to get another ride on Rutschebanen. There was about a 10 minute wait, and we saw that Jakob was still working as a brakeman. We asked at the loading platform if we could wait for his train, and the employee happily obliged. It only took one extra train, and Jakob was excited to see all of us waiting for him when the train came into the station. He gave us another fantastic ride, and then parked the train on the brake run, just before the exit platform. Jakob hopped out of the train and walked away, saying, “I’m off for the day, see you guys later!” He came back about 15 seconds later since we were holding up the other trains. Jakob told us to sit tight, because he was going to give us another ride! Yes! When the station was empty, he released the brake and we rolled right through the station without stopping. I tried to avoid making eye contact with the guests that were getting bypassed, because they didn’t look very happy. Seriously, though, who’s going to say no to another ride? Not me. As we pulled into the station again, we got out and thanked Jakob for such an awesome day. He really loves what he does, and it showed! Let's ride Rutschebanen again! Fun ride! Train leaving the station. Not Jakob. That's Jakob! Thanks for an awesome day! One last look at the mountain. It seemed like we’d had enough riding for the day. We found a nice patio area, and everyone sat down and just hung out. A few people had some beers and others had non-alcoholic drinks as well. It was a nice way to end the day at such a great park. While we were sitting there, another group of TPR folks walked by. Shawn, Ross, Matt (mattguyver) and Lauren (lauren3k) along with few others joined us for a bit. After sharing stories, it was time to make our way to the park exit. This is when I really fell in love with Tivoli Gardens. It’s a completely different park after the sun goes down. All of the buildings and most of the rides are decorated with lights. It’s really unlike any other park that I’ve visited. We all had an amazing day at Tivoli, and it was easily one of the top 3 parks on the trip. While the ride collection isn’t amazing, the park is just incredible. Hopefully I’m able to come back for a visit someday! Gorgeous. Then there's Joe. I can't even try to explain this. Dusk. The park starts to come to life at night. Coaster nerd shot! Another fancy panoramic. The mountain at night. Very nice. Leaving the park. Another creepy clown. What the hell is it with this country? Even better at night. Priscilla has had enough of me and my bad attitude. Thanks for reading!

Ok Thad, let us remember who actually starts these conversations. You and Joe?

While on a TPR trip, you try to talk to me about roller coasters constantly. Even when I'm trying to drink beer.

Boring. Needs more of me. Good stuff so far, can't wait to see your pictures!

El Toro I guess that will have to hold me over for a few weeks.