by 65skylark » Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:18 pm
Part Four: Busch Gardens Africa
Finally, my class was finished, and my presentation went great! Now, with all the pressure of finishing my training and giving my presentation, I can celebrate with a couple of days in Florida.
I got the house at about 1am in the morning to find most everyone still up. I'm sure they were all anxiously awaiting my arrival. Either that, or they were still up because they had been at the Magic Kingdom until after midnight. Either way, we stayed up BSing until 2:30 in the morning. 7am came really fast!
P.S. I am probably the last one to post picures from Florida, so this part of the TR might seem a little fimiliar to most of you. I'll try to keep it somewhat different, but I'm sure you'll see a few pictures you have already seen.
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- Matt is wide awake and ready to go!
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- "Who's awake? Where we going? Where am I?"
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- Not sure if Dave even went to sleep. You never know about those British peeps.
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- Heading to BGA in style. Honda Element represent.
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- Not too sure about the driver, though.
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- It was just a little wet when we got there. This was actually a good thing.
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- I was told the rain had made Gwazi not horrible today.
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- These are flamingos. Moving on....
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- I don't know what this is.
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- It seemed to like Catrina, though.
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- Hey, there's some people we know.
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- First ride of the day was Sheikra.
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- Poor Matt. All alone in the back of the station.
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- Sheikra was great as expected, but after having just been on Griffon seven days earlier, I would give Griffon the edge. Sheikra was more highly themed, but Griffon was a better overall ride, IMO.
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- Sheikra or Griffon, either way, you've got one heck of a good coaster.
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- Kumba! Yet another coaster that I have heard only good things about.
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- We had to wait all of 22.7 seconds to ride. It was tough, but we stuck it out.
I must warn you in advance of the next picture. It is quite simply amazing. I really have a natural ability to come up with these highly original shots that you never see anyone else take. So here ya go.........
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- I know. Incredible. I amaze even myself.
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- So Kumba was awesome. Easily in my personal top ten. Maybe even top five.
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- Speaking of amazing coasters.
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- Paul looks entirely too happy to be riding Cheetah Chase.
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- That's so cute!
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- Catrina did a lot of sitting out the coasters. I think she may have been traumatized by "stalker bird".
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- Finally, I get to ride Scorpion. It was one of only two coasters in the park the last time I was there, but it was closed.
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- Not really too intense for a Schwartzkopf, but still a lot of fun.
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- Next was the safari ride.
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- The view was quite nice.
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- The water portion of the ride was closed. But hey, it looks like it would be fun, yes?
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- Justin, taking a picture of Paul, taking a picture of...........What? Its been done before? Are you kidding me!?
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- I have no idea.
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- This is Montu. It is a B&M inverted roller coaster and it is THE S**T! Sitting atop my invert list are now Montu, Raptor, and Top Gun at Great America.
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- Ever since becoming the NHRA Division 6 Sportaman champion, my co-workers have been giving me a hard time about having a big head. Boy are they wrong.
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- Finished off the day with a couple rides on Gwazi. I actually thought it was OK. It was my first ride though.
So, it had been all of two hours, and we knocked out every credit, and one half A$$ safari ride. I can't say enough about Busch parks. BGA was great, although even with it having a better coaster lineup than BGE, I still would give the edge to the park in Williamsburg. Both are great, though!
Cypress Gardens is next.
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