It's raining this morning and I'm sitting in the common area of the Hotel. It is the only part of the hotel that has Internet access. Hello, Cedar Point....welcome to the year 2010. Wireless access for the whole hotel wouldn't be a task of mammoth proportions. Connectivity complaining aside....
Wow, what an great day we had Sunday. Saturday's rental car debacle had me feeling a little dubious about the upcoming vacation. Finally arriving back in Columbus nine hours later, after what should have been a five hour trip, we set out to pack. What did not help was that we got our new telephones on Saturday so Laela and I spent a good portion of the evening setting those up and getting our contacts transferred. We finished packing and were in bed around 2:00am.
Sunday morning, we packed up the car, rolled through Tim Hortons and set off. We finally go up to Cedar Point around noon. We checked into Hotel Breakers and then went to the park. Guest services was extremely gracious to us and got the family a fast pass. It was nice to be able to sign up for a ride, go do some other stuff and come back at a scheduled time. Frequent rest breaks were required throughout the day.
Highlights: Maverick is without a doubt the best roller coaster I have ever ridden. It was the first and last coaster we rode yesterday (extra cool in the dark). We hit Mantis, Top Fuel Dragester, Magnum, Millennium Force, and a few others.
We also had dinner at Tomo, the Japanese Hibachi restaurant in the hotel lobby. It was a lot of fun and our chef was awesome. He had a old timey squeeze bottle full of sake and decided that it would be fun to continually squirt it into my mouth. He cooked with a little bit of it but for the most part I consumed about 2/3 of that bottle. I was feeling good by the time we got back into the park.
We got back to the hotel to unwind and then took a midnight stroll on the beach. In bed by 1:30 and now I'm up preparing for today's jaunt off to Niagara Falls.
