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I've said this a lot but Afterburn during scarowinds at night in the back row was the best experience I have ever had on a roller coaster so far. It was crazy! I actually screamed during that,haha.

Oh okay, maybe I was right then,lol. Thanks.

How tall is that supposed to be? I want to say It looks as tall as a hyper but it's probably not that tall right?

Yeah, I agree. I like the stand up coasters. I mean yeah, it does suck to have your balls crushed,but other than that, I like the feel of them. When I go to carowinds every year, I always get 2-3 rides on Vortex before I leave. I'm really liking that color scheme.

From what I've been on (not much). I'll have to say Hurler at Carowinds for sure. I HATE that ride.

Afterburn and Richochet at carowinds both need a paint job badly. Afterburn hasn't ever been repainted except for touch ups on a few spots. The rails are really rusty. I'd like to see hurler either get the Texas Giant Treatment or get some track work done by GCI because that ride is horrible! They only made the ride worse by adding trims on it because now you get a rough ride with no airtime,lol. So either It needs some work or it needs torn out completely. =\ And I'm sure a lot of other Dollywood fans would disagree with me, but I'd like to see Blazing Fury get a overhaul with some new effects and animatronics and stuff. It's just sooo outdated. I'm not sure if they still have the original effects gone from Mystery Mine, but if they don't, they should add them back. And, of course, Timber Tower needs to be gone,haha. That is all.

I'm not sure how far Pigeon forge is from there but I would highly recommend a visit. There's a ton of things to do there. I've been going there almost every year for around 8 or 9 years and I still haven't done everything yet,lol. And of course Dollywood is there for your coaster rides. It doesn't have a lot of coasters, but it's still a good park. You might be able to hit up a few other parks on the way back. I've always had a great time whenever I went there.

Yup,that's it. I looove that ride. Huss needs to sell more of those. They have another coaster but I wasn't able to ride it and I didn't think about getting a picture either. I think it's called Indy 500 or something. Yeah, it's pretty neat. I would recommend going at least one time. It's surprisingly a very big event. Even Govern...Senator Manchin was there,lol. Awesome! I live in the southern part of the state in Mercer County.

Yeah, I would say so Wes. The company travels up and down the East coast. They're out of Florida I think. Lol, It's cool. Comment as much as you like. You really did. It might have been different on different days but I would have much rather went to kennywood. I'll probably still go back next year if my college goes again because if there's any chance of me getting on a ride, I'll be there,haha. Yeah me too. I don't think I'll ever BASE Jump either. But I might try skydiving one of these days.

And, at last, Part 6! In this final part I'm going to discuss scarowinds and what I think of the whole event. I was unable to take pictures unfortunately so I feel like a paragraph about it should do. However, I do have a few pictures from winter I took around here I'd like to post just to wrap up the year. So enjoy! Scarowinds: This year was my first time attending the Scarowinds Halloween Haunt event at Carowinds.My school was taking a trip there so I signed up. I definitely expected a lot more from this than what It really was. The first thing I didn't really like is the long lines. I had no idea the lines would be backed out of the queue onto the walkway. I waited 45 minutes for both Intimidator and Afterburn, although a Beemer is definitely worth a long wait. I didn't have much of a wait for Vortex, Carolina Cobra and Hurler though. I didn't even bother looking at Nighthawk's line, but I would say it was crazy. I wasn't about to wait that long for just that. The second thing I didn't like was the lack of roving monsters. I expected tons of creepers out there scaring people, but I didn't see that many at all. Speaking of the monsters that were out creeping on people, I really liked the tall skeleton looking things and the guys with flint or whatever on their shoes so when they slid their shoes made sparks. I thought those were really cool. The last thing I didn't like was how they would just cut off sections of path like at Planet Snoopy, which made navigating the park much harder I thought. Oh, and one thing about carowinds, not just scarowinds, I thought was crazy was the lack of places to make phone calls. My phone died(that's why I couldn't take pictures) and I was trying to call my friends to see where they were at and the only place we could get a phone was all the way at the entrance.What If someone was having a heart attack or something? Now for the things I did like. #1 I liked The crazy amount of fog in the park Like, after leaving, you could see a cloud surrounding the park because there was so much artificial fog. It definitely made things a lot more creepy. #2 Afterburn was running absolutely amazing that night. I would definitely recommend back row on Afterburn at scarowinds. I never scream or curse on coasters and I definitely did it a lot when I took that ride,lol. #3 The haunted mazes looked nice, but I don't know how the insides were. I don't like haunted houses or scare mazes or anything so I didn't do any of that. So overall, it was fun, but I wouldn't make any special trips to go there myself. A 3 hour drive isn't worth it. I would rather go on a normal weekday in the summer where the lines aren't super long and there's more attractions open. I would only go again if my College went again like they did this year even if they got lost and took a freakin' school bus for a 3 hour drive. =\ I hope everyone enjoyed the pictures and stuff. If anyone is interested in a my 2009 Myrtle Beach Trip which includes a lot of pictures of Freestyle Music Park, let me know and I'll post a bunch of pictures from that. Thanks for the comments for the ones who did,lol. Everyone have a good New Years! - Shawn Clisso And now for random winter photos! The first snow of the year! Taken at Concord University(my college). Snow makes me hate college more. Stupid gas station signs. >=( One last one! Note: This was on a different day than the previous picture.

Well, I ended up being too busy yesterday for another update, but I'm back again for part 5! This part covers my first time going to Bridge Day in Fayetteville, WV. For those who don't know what this is, it's a big festival at the New River Gorge Bridge, which is now the third largest arch bridge in the world. But anyway, they close down the whole bridge and people BASE jump off of it. It's a surprisingly large festival. I would describe it as The WV State fair stretched out over 3-4 miles without rides or animals,lol. There's a lot of food, booths, and fee stuff. It's pretty neato. I hope everyone had a great Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/ whatever else. lol. But anyway, as I usually end this, I hope you enjoy! There's some of the booths and random stuff on the side of the highway. Down the road a little there were vendors on both sides of the road. I couldn't help myself, It was too pretty to just walk by it and not take a picture. Whoops, I think this was supposed to be first,haha. Anyway...it's foggy. We couldn't see anything for at least 10-15 mins. "Hey Look! Fog!" I think by this point you could see the jumpers a little. They set up a big thing in the middle of the bridge with a little crane, a diving board and another platform to jump from. And there's the valley! They had boats at the bottom to catch the flying people. And here's part of the one million steps from the visitors center to the outlook. =\ What's that? Just a liiittttle more... There it is!

Part 4! State Fair of West Virginia 2010 It had been like 4 years since I had been to the fair, but I FINALLY got the chance to go back in August. It's kind of self explanatory but just to let you know, WV has a fair every year in Lewisburg with concerts from actual big celebs, shopping, crafts,booths with free stuff, animals,games, RIDES, and plenty of food. I think even fireworks or something some days. I got a lot of pictures of the ghetto trailer mounter rides because that's all that is important right? lol. I've never heard anything bad about Reithoffer Shows but I still don't trust some of these rides. Rides? Count me in! Uhh...Is that safe? I can't believe they're THAT concerned about people sneaking in. I felt like I was in a concentration camp. YAY! DINOSAURS! But who cares about dinosaurs when you have miles of food?! To the rides! First ride of the day! And probably one of the tamest,lol. I'm more into the Mack ones. =\ Meh, This ride was okay. I really liked this. And it's more thrilling than what you think. They would move it up and down to make it a little more thrilling. This was probably the surprise of the day. It was my first real swinging ship and I absolutely loved it. I didn't expect it to be as awesome as it was. I was too tall to fit. >=\ But at least I was able to get on this baby. I loved it! And here is some I took from the Ferris Wheel! I LOVE this picture. Is there a certain amount of time these ferris wheels can operate because I'm sure this one is older than I am,lol. Okay, two things... #1 Why would you stick your nasty, AIDS infected bandage on a ferris wheel? #2 How in the world did someone write their name on that? That beam was moving the whole time. One last shot. And then we left! It sucks I didn't get any of the rest of the fair, but it was too hot for me to worry about that at the time,lol.

You really need to revisit sometime soon, they're always building new stuff there every year. It's hard for me to keep up with all the new attractions going in all the time. Definitely try out the Titanic Museum. I didn't try the 360 degree bikes and the line was long for the simulator but I plan to go back and do those eventually. Yeah! I totally forgot about the mirror maze. I was hoping I would be able to do that but I didn't have enough time to unfortunately. I've been to all of them in gatlinburg except the haunted adventure, the mirror maze and the Davy Crockett Mini golf. I think I like the aquarium and the moving theater the best though. I've never been into the haunted mazes and stuff. It's not that I'm afraid, it's more like, I hate unexpected thrills. I get angry when people scare me,haha. I love Dollywood so much and Thunderhead, Mystery Mine, and Tennessee Tornado are always the highlights. There's never a visit to Pigeon Forge that I don't go to Dollywood. Actually, I have a story i forgot to add. When I was in line for tickets, a guy that had already bought his didn't get the right ones so the woman at the window had to stop from buying mine to get his which was totally fine with me, but she still gave me a small discount because of it. I thought that was so nice. If it had been like Carowinds, they would have NEVER done that. So it just made me love the place even more,haha.

Here's my video from my Helicopter Tour. Check out my video from my tram ride to Ober Galinburg also! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkNEs2mQSA4

Part 3!! This part includes my trip to Pigeon Forge,TN and the surrounding areas. When I document trips, I take pictures of EVERYTHING, so I have some photos of the trip to Tennessee and then while we were there. I included a few pictures of our cabin, Black Light Circus Mini Golf, Professor Hackers mini golf, The Titianic Museum, Dollywood, Helicopter tour,and whatever else I encountered while I was there. Hope you enjoy! Take the tunnel! You enter the tunnel in WV and come out in VA! I looove scenic shots. Probably my favorite. Take the tunnel again! What if there is no light at the end of the tunnel? What if I'm a huge mystery mine fan? =P And after an hour or so, we get to Tennessee! And somehow we get to the Sexy Stuf store in Sevierville! haha. If no one has ever been to wonderworks, I definitely recommend it. I'm 18 years old and I still have so much fun in that place,lol. I also recommend the Black Bear Jamboree dinner show. But make sure to not go in July. =\ I like the outside better than the arcade inside. And we arrive at the cabin! Now i'm gonna do a little advertising for Majestic Mountain Vacations. The place was pretty nice I thought. We got the Indoor Pool Lodge. Indoor theater that didn't work that great. =\ Note: I'm not getting paid for this but I should,lol. We decided to go up the mountain a little to take some pictures and we were amazed at how close these cabins are to one another. I wish we had a cabin up here because that view is incredible! My mom's vehicle started overheating because of the crazy steep roads to get up here. It NEVER does that. And on to Titanic photos! This was when we got out. They don't let you take pictures of the inside for some reason so the outside is all I got. The pictures turned out pretty good though. I definitely recommend a visit to here also, you really do learn a lot. Each person gets a card with a name of an actual passenger on it with some info about that person. You go through the museum looking for possessions or other things of your person and then at the end you learn if your person lived or died. It's really neat. This is a replica of one of the Anchors on the ship. That replica was taller than I am, and I'm 6'4". Here's some from The Indoor Blacklight Circus Mini golf course in Gatlinburg. Oh, I think 3D is in the name there somewhere, but anyway. Yeah, they give you "3D" glasses In an already blacklit golf course. I don't know what an acid trip feels like... But with the 3D glasses on, that's what I imagine it feels like,lol. There was a lot of creepy stuff in there. There's a clown that pops out of here and I about had a heart attack. =\ The last hole is pretty cool though,lol. Misc Gatlinburg... I LOVE the Aquarium. It's really relaxing. And while I was in Gatlinburg, my sister was enjoying this. >=\ DOLLYWOOD! It's always the highlight of my trip. I don't care what anyone says about Mystery Mine, I can't get enough of it. Twisteee!! Well...not so much here. Smoothest Arrow ever! Also the only coaster I have almost blacked out on,haha. Make sure to watch Sha-Kon-O-Hey! While you're there. It's an amazing show. I don't have much from Professor Hackers mini Golf, but I do vote this for being one of the best Mini-Golf Courses in the area. Reminds me of the jet plane on Afterburn for some reason. And here's what took me on my first flight.