Roller Coaster Nation

We spent last Saturday at Cedar Point. It's a pretty well-known amusement park up on the shores of Lake Erie. Reza and I took my little brother Tanner, and his best buddy Drew. They were troopers! It was actually Drew's first time on a roller coaster. It was pretty crowded and we spent some time standing in lines, but it was such a great time! While we were standing in line Reza whipped out his blueberry and did some research on roller coasters. There are a lot of random lists out there for top 10 roller coasters such as this one. Basically all the lists I looked at include the Millennium Force and the Top Speed Dragster. They also have a new ride called the Maverick that was voted the best new ride of 2007, and it was amazing! All in all we had a great time, and all made it home alive. The Dragster goes 120 miles an hour and up to over 400 feet. It's insane! And the Millennium Force at one point was the highest roller coaster. While the rides never fail to disappoint here are the few things that were less then great about Cedar Point:

1) No food vendor was prepared ahead. We hit up 3 different lines for 3 different things at 3 different times and each time they ran out of food, and were SOOOO slow.
2) After paying about 40 bucks to get in the park, and another 10 to park---several of the roller coasters required you to pay yet another dollar to put your bag in a locker because there was no storage areas near the entrance/exit of the coaster. Give me a free locker!
3) The park apparently is shaped like an oval, however the paths and maps are not well marked which led to lots of extraneous walking.

I was a very lame photographer...but here is what I got.

In line for our first ride--the Raptor. I think Drew is probably the only person who talks as much as Tanner does.Where all boys need to go at sometime or another.