08stien Posted August 3, 2009 Posted August 3, 2009 Well myself and the gang have returned from another amazing trip to Holiday World, and lucky for you we captured its greatest with our bright pink cybershot. Enjoy: But we left our favorite park with great memories and new favortie vacation of all time...well until we come to Holiday World again It was a sad time having to leave our favorite coaster for who knows how long Pilgrims Plunge was down both days, but with Cedarpoint being our home park we didn't expect much from an intamin Until it was officially taken too far and we left the hat shop forever! We couldn't believe we had never found this place before, and it was hours of laughs... But then the happy birth day, pirate match made everyone laugh I almost took it too far with this lord of darkness headdress But keisha and I answered with a hamburger hot dog combo Zack Jacob and Debbie came hard with their man-faire, squid head, king of lady humps hat mix As keisha got in on the action with her flying pig hat Debbie and D had no problem with making fun of missing children At the little known jewel of holiday world, the crazy hat shop! But how did we spend over an hour in Christmas you might ask? When the water park got crowded we head off to Christmas, where we didnt find any fun rides But undisclosed injuries entering this portion of the ride resulted in it not being our consensus favorite Zinga could have been our favorite... Zoombabwe was our favorite hands down The racer slide is nice but did you know they have FREE SOFT DRINKS in the water park too? Before we hit the water park we started our day with a healthy breakfast full of Voyage Day 2 came and we ... reported for duty? And thanks to some friendly ride ops, the 6 of us had the entire last train of the night on Voyage all to ourselves! And we marathoned FREE SOFT DRINKS We marathoned Legend As the sun started to go down we marathoned Raven We felt just like Lewis and Clark chugging along in our 1915 automobiles While sipping on FREE SOFT DRINKS we took a ride on Lewis and Clark Trail We came for FREE SOFT DRINKS We didn't come to the Land of 4th of July for this We didn't come to 4th of July for this Next we headed to 4th of July land..do you call it land? It's me acknowleging The Voyage is my #1 coaster, and Keisha ackowledging she just pee'd a little Here's another good photo and...oh wait, whats that again!? We zoom in to see Debbie and Jacob acknowledging The Voyage is the greatest coaster ever built Ok ok I made that up too, but this ride is amazing...and hey whats that there? And there's also no doubt to the reports that virgin woman have climbed aboard The Voyage and returned to the station 3 months pregnant But there's no doubt that it's the greatest, most air-time filled, hands down #1 coaster in the planet. Ok ok so maybe I lied and it's not really the tallest or fastest coaster on earth. As these riders reach the 'about 500ft' mark they are preparing themselves for the 275mph greatest coaster on earth We never really heard the exact statistics but from this photo you can see just how big 'about 800ft' is As you can see by this photo The Voyage is the tallest roller coaster on the planet, standing at what we roughly estimated to be 800ft. Oh, also over in Thanksgiving is The REAL Greatest World Wide Ever...bla bla Coaster on earth! MORE FREE SOFT DRINKS Thanksgiving was next, and everyone knows what is waiting for us there... The 88 degree drop then dives into the "Worlds Loudest Tunnel" as you head into the wilderness/water park We LOVE The Legends first drop as it's obvious to see from around the park that it's 88 degrees Since The Legend is much more photogenic than Raven we got some nice layout shots like this one On to The Legend we went FREE SOFT DRINKS The Legend also resides in Halloween, but first we headed to... And when he came back down this is the best shot of the Raven in action he could get The Raven is so hard to photograph that we asked this Holiday World employee to climb this tower and try to get a shot for us It is so un-photogenic that this is the best action shot we could get We wouldn't quite give it that title, but we will give it the title of hardest coaster to photograph in the world Halloween is home to the Greatest World Wide Most Amazing Fantastic Coaster Ever Built on Earth Ever in the World Well our adventure starts in the O-SO scary Halloween But everyone is excited for FREE SOFT DRINKS Myself and Keisha are excited for her first time at Holiday World Sara and I are excited for Rabbits with an excessive amount of arms Me, Keisha, D, and Jacob are excited to see Santa We arrive at a place much better than Cedar Point
ParkTrips Posted August 3, 2009 Posted August 3, 2009 too bad you had to pay $40 to get into Free Soft Drink World
coasterville Posted August 3, 2009 Posted August 3, 2009 $40 - who said anything about $40 - I'm going to Greatest Wood Coasters on Earth (and free soft drinks, too!) World on Thursday, but I only intend on spending $20 on a 1-day ticket. I bought mine from a TV station in Nashville that was runing a Buy 1 Get 1 sale back in April or May. Imgine this wood coaster lineup Wednesday - Cornball Express, LoCoSuMo, and Hoosier Hurricane (Really, can't wait to try Steel Hawg either) Thursday - Voyage, Raven, Legend Friday - Screamin Eagle, Boss, Evil Kenevil Will Six Flags St. Louis suffer the "Post Holiday World Trip Let Down" that SFKK usually suffers from, time will tell!
itsasamccormick Posted August 3, 2009 Posted August 3, 2009 Will Six Flags St. Louis suffer the "Post Holiday World Trip Let Down" that SFKK usually suffers from, time will tell! It never has for me. You'll enjoy the park.
DBru Posted August 3, 2009 Posted August 3, 2009 ^^Nope, all three of St. Louis' woodies are great...just like Holiday World's. (Plus, MR. FREEZE!!!)
KrakenKing Posted August 3, 2009 Posted August 3, 2009 too bad you had to pay $40 to get into Free Soft Drink World Try paying $80 and not getting free drinks. Welcome to Orlando. The lady in the last picture, she was so nice! I got to meet her on the TPR Midwest Trip.
Emiroo Posted August 3, 2009 Posted August 3, 2009 Nice report. Your captions are hilarious! ^ And FYI, that lady is Pat Koch, the owner of the park.
08stien Posted August 4, 2009 Author Posted August 4, 2009 Mrs Koch and her family are amazing people. We saw her on our way out the second day and asked her for a picture with us. We told her we live up by Cedarpoint but we like it here at her park much better, and instead of just giving us a nice thank you and moving us along she wanted to know the exact reasons why we liked her park more and she really cared what we had to say. I wouldn't expect to get that from most big time park owners.
VegasCoaster Posted August 4, 2009 Posted August 4, 2009 I haven't been on Evel Knievil, but last year the boss was running pretty horribly and Screamin Eagle was pretty good. Either way I'm still guessing if all of SFStL's woodies are running well they still won't hold a candle to Holiday World's.
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