Friday, August 06, 2010


The Sea Dragon!
The first roller coaster from designer John C. Allen and the only one remaining of three built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company with this layout. Sea Dragon at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium's Jungle Jack's Landing is a double out and back, figure eight wooden coaster. This family attraction has a 37-foot tall lift, 1,320-feet of wood track and a maximum speed of 25 miles-per-hour. It was built in 1956.
It's a classic!


Paige and Megan kept trying to get the very front seat but would have to settle for the 2nd row of the first car. I told them next time to just let everyone go and wait back so they could be 1st in line so they could jump in the first seat of the first car.




"The Scrambler" a.k.a. the masher because if there are 2 people riding together one gets mashed against the far side of the seat.



My ultimate favorite carnival ride is the "Tilt-a-Whirl". Back when we were kids my dad and uncle both worked for P.&G. and they would have their company picnic at Mickey Grove Park just South of Sacramento each year around the start of school. We would get our hands stamped and we would get to ride the carnival rides with our cousins all day. We spent lots of time on the ol Tilt-a-Whirl making good memories.
Now when the kids and I go to the zoo we are doing the same. There's never a line for the rides and if no one is in line the kids running the rides just let you stay on and ride again and again that is what we did yesterday.







The last ride of the night was the Sailing Parrots..note to self "do not put on sticky lip gloss before riding parrot ride unless you want your hair stuck to your lips!"

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