jray21 Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 (edited) With the Green Lantern opening at Six Flags Magic Mountain, and Amy not having any Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk credits, we decided to do a mini-California credit whoring trip! It was originally going to be Amy, and my two nephews (16 & 18), but after about 30 changes, it ended up being Amy, my younger brother Tim and his wife, my niece Morgan (11), and my nephew Brandon (6). We also had my sister and her kids with us for the Santa Cruz day as they live pretty close. Day one was the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, day two was Six Flags Magic Mountain, and day three was the California State Fair! Anyway, on to the pictures! On our way! I really appreciate TPR trips a lot more after doing a trip on our own. The devil hanging out near Santa Cruz. Amy is cold, so she warms up with her Australia TPR trip without Joey purchased jacket! We arrive in Santa Cruz and the train literally goes through the center of the main road! We arrive at the Boardwalk! The ride vehicles for the new haunted house ride. The line was really short in the morning, and really long later on. The left side of the beach. The right side of the beach. Time for the carousel with the throwing ring game! I'm so glad that it is still here even in sue happy California! There are few things in this world better than a fresh corn dog! Mmmmm, delicious. And a small side of nachos. Enjoying the log ride. The 'other' area of the park that has a bunch of fun dark/flat rides. People enjoying the Big Dipper! We had a buy one get one free coupon for the bazooka 'game.' It was actually pretty fun and reminded me of American Gladiators! Double Shots are always good. I guess that makes the ride better. Amy had some awesome hair from the ride. Just a few g-forces on the bounce back up. Amy eats the blue Dippin' Dots that my sister said only kids would ever eat. Three of the kids decided to play laser tag. I bet you can't guess which ones they were This Laughing Sal is a pretty famous character from the old Playland at the Beach in San Francisco. Next up was a free game of miniature golf! You would think with a group of 10, 5 being kids, we would take forever and hold everyone up. But the group ahead of us, 3 people in their 20's, were so slow that all 10 of us had to wait for them the entire time! The theming was pretty good. Lilly was still trying to figure out how the stupid thing worked. If I was stuck in quicksand, I'd want a slushee as well! The whole indoor arcade/golf area was pretty nice. Time for the Hurricane credit! More fun Hurricane faces. The kids like the small flats while they wait for us. A little scared of the drop. Woah there. Amy gets her credit! Morgan and Timmy totally love coasters and will definitely be TPR nerds. Anyone else think those two little girls in the blue 'chair' at the top right are way too young to be riding by themselves!?!? These cavemen/cavewomen have been on this ride forever! Hurricane was a fun little ride. More fun little rides for the kids Wow. I guess Amy sees her as well. Morgan enjoying the swings. The best food of the day! I ate it way too fast to take a picture! Brandon is so happy to be away from his parents and riding rides! We cool down on the log ride! One last ride on the Cyclone before our long drive to beautiful Valencia! Edited July 27, 2011 by jray21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon8899 Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 I really enjoyed Santa Cruz Broadwalk two months ago - even if I had only half a day as I had to go to San Francisco the same day. The Giant Dipper was big fun - as well as the Waveswinger going over the beach. Quite cool was also the indoor Breakdancer. As you say its amazing that those classic merry-go-rounds are still there - also found the rubber thingies on the Waveswingers funny - I only knew them so far with bare chains. I didn't do Hurricane as at first they had a "minimum 10 riders" limit in the morning - and at midday the line was so long I skipped it. But got onto Giant Dipper over 10 times.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jray21 Posted July 27, 2011 Author Share Posted July 27, 2011 ^ We had the complete opposite experience for Big Dipper and Hurricane. Hurricane had absolutely no line, and Big Dipper had a line all day! It was a fun park, and there was definitely a lot to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amyzoo Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 I liked the Beach Boardwalk, it had a lot of fun things to do. On that Merry go Round I didn't know I had to grab the rings to throw in the clowns mouth, but after I tried a few times I still didn't make any in the clowns mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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