Coaster Craziness

Early Thursday morning we woke up to meet Michael D at the hall. He ran into a little trouble renting the car, but a the wait wasn't too long. There were eventually 7 of us in the car, and after 3o minutes stuck in a traffic jam we were off to the amusement park. It's called Thorpe Park, it has about 8 roller coasters, and is a decent sized park. Right away we went to Stealth, a half sized, but still thrilling, Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point. We then went over to their signature coaster called Saw. It was a very long queue, about 90 minutes, but it was supposed to be worth it so we waited anyway. About 10 minutes in it started to sprinkle, then drizzle, and then strait out poured. We finally gave it up and headed for shelter, but by then everyone was completely drenched. (It was very very cold too. So we were under a very small shelter and all shivering. -Eric) We waited 20 minutes for the rain to stop, confirmed that the ride was running again, and got back in line. We had advanced a little, but many had stayed in line so we were still an hour back in line. It was still spitting and cold, but we finally dried off a little. The ride was really fun and worth it; (The Saw is a little bit like the Maverick in Cedar Point if any of you have been able to ride that yet. -Eric) afterwards we rode one of those spinning rides, which as also a good time. We hadn't eaten and were cold still, so finally around 3 we found a Pizza Hut buffet and went to town. We then went to do a few more rides, and squeezed in another ride on Stealth and Saw right at then end. We wearily walked to the car and made the rounds dropping everyone off, and went home.