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Music Two!

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:25:55 -0400

OK! Hawk Nelson gets a second blog! Oh, and maybe I’ll add in a few other bands...
~Reccomendations~
Live Life Loud, Live Life Loud Single,Hawk Nelson
Friend Like That, Hawk Nelson Is My Friend, Hawk Nelson
Let’s Dance, Hawk Nelson Is My Friend, Hawk Nelson
Hello, Smile It’s the End of the World, Hawk Nelson
Bring ‘Em Out, Bring ‘em Out Single, Hawk Nelson
Whispers in the Dark, Comatose, Skillet
Loud, To Know That You’re Alive, Kutless
Promise of a Lifetime, Hearts of the Innocent, Kutless
Complete, To Know That You’re Alive, Kutless
Adding to the Noises, Switchfoot
Hotel Aquarium, Falling Up
Symmetry, Falling Up
Sound of Your Name, Above the Golden State
Loud and Clear, Above the Golden State

I’m gonna update this again later... With websites and stuff

Roller Coaster Trip ’09: Pittsburgh

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:48:29 -0400

1. Hey, look! The photo fits now!(If you haven’t read it yet, go and read Cedar Point then West Virginia blogs. :D)
2. Fireworks at Uniontown whilst at the Hampton mentioned in And it was over a scenic storage unit!
3. Kennywood. Woohoo, morning entrance after night in yet another Hampton!(It was like a tour of Hamptons- three different ones in a 6 day run)
4. Phantom’s Revenge, a new steel coaster. As you reach the waiting area, you see people riding in the cars, about to make the terrible drop. Once you enter said waiting area, you choose where you want to be on the car and listen to the disembodied voice telling you about safety on the ride. You wait and wait, hearing it over and over, until you manage to get in. You are shot forward and begin the climb up the hill. You reach the top and fall, so fast, downward. There are several more horrifying drops, one of which shoots you under the Thunderbolt, until you finally reach home free. You step off laughing with joy-I mean screaming with terror, and go ride it fifteen more times. JUST KIDDING! The ride is awesome. Col, Dad and I were in back twice and front once. And I was singing Hawk Nelson’s new single, Live Life Loud, on the first drop. So don’t worry about it! I was exaggerating! There’s nothing that fits the “Phantom” “Revenge” or even “‘s” on this. It’s just another coaster, ya’ll!
5. Thunderbolt, nice and fun and wooden! Sooooo cool!
6. Ghostwood Estates. Think Haunted Mansion with family-friendly shooting action. Dad won, Col was second, and I was conveniently third. :)
7. Jackrabbit- w00t! Very fun and it even has a webcam. Col did his Knuckles the Echidna thingy and I went Vulcan. Very cool, and we rode it once more later.
8. Mmm... Good pizza.
9. Racers. Yet another wooden coaster. Dad and I were on the Sonic Team as I called it(It’s the blue car) and Colin was on the Knuckles Team(Red car). Sonic Team won!
10. That UFO ride. Whatever it’s called, it’s cool. We rode it twice- once morning, once night with the lights on.
11. Exterminator. Not enough “You’re in the dark so we’re going to DROP THIS CAR INTO A UNSEEN HOLE AND THEN MAGICALLY TRANSPORT THEM TO THE EXIT WHICH ISN’T A EXIT BUT ANOTHER DROP!” but it was OK.
12. Noah’s Ark fun house. It was WEIRD dude!
13. Potato fries(SO good!), my custom strawberry lemonade slushie mix(Yum), leaving to watch the fireworks from the parking lot(Soo awesome!), and then heading up the mon incline in Pittsburgh. Yes, I forgot the real name. But it looked cool.
14. Arriving at Aunt Sue’s house insanely late at night!
15. Mwahaha- Tricking everyone at home with loophole Facebook status changes which hinted toward us staying another day... :) so much fun!

Roller Coaster Trip ’09: West Virginia

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:32:55 -0400

1. Hey, look, it’s another Pittsburgh photo!(If you don’t get this, look at the Cedar Point blog. That one’s meant to be read before this one, anyway)
2. We start out driving. The plan is that we head to a campground and sleep the night, then climb Seneca Rocks to find a cache and go on a trail ride.
3. Seneca Shadows campground is nice enough. Not to mention that we get the joy of arriving way late and setting up the camp at night! Take my word for it and DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME(Or at any campsite, unless you know what you’re doing).
4. We get a amazing view from outside our tent of the mountains. Then we pack up(In record time! Or maybe not) and attempt to start a fire. Being our first one of the season, we don’t do it right. And so most of the beginning of my fire time lapse shows us trying to get it going with very non-useful lighters. Oh, and then comes the “fun” part.
5. Seneca Rocks. A insanely long and tough climb. I’m to blame for it, too, because I insisted we didn’t give up when we got the path wrong and came to a dead end. Oh well, our endurance is way better now. And we got to look at the view- well, Col and Dad mainly did. I have a fear of staring downward, from a high hight, while standing on a wooden structure. I’ve seen areas like the one we were on swaying. So then we went to find the cache, with all of us so tired it hurt, climbing up the incline. Then we got the cache and a geocoin, so it was all worth it in my book. Then we go faster downhill(My expertise) and manage to get some in jokes because of the “guardrails” and the threatening “no shortcuts” signs(Shortcuts may be hazardous, shortcuts may destroy vegetation, shortcuts may create erosion). AND we made it down in time to rush to the riding place!
6. We were assigned horses(I got Calamity, Col got Shammy, Dad got Dylan) and went on the ride. I was amazed. The boys caught on quickly and they let us trot and get in a few strides of canter! Not to mention that the views were amazing. And I got more practice of the classic “No eating grass while you’re working” campaign.
7. More driving down country roads and creating in-jokes so we could reach location three...

Roller Coaster Trip ’09: Cedar Point

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:02:45 -0400

1. You got me. The photo’s of Pittsburgh in the night, not of Cedar Point. I haven’t gotten the pics from Col’s computer yet. They’ll be in a album when I do, though....
2. We got a cache in at President McKinley’s memorial...(Hope I spelled that right)
3. Cedar Point was the first park on our trip. We drove through the rain(The lightning looked SO cool, by the way) to a Hampton hotel and slept the night(No idea if I spelled Hampton right) and then went the next day.
4. Our first ride of the day was the Raptor. It’s one where your legs dangle and it does loop-de-loops and stuff. Don’t worry, it’s a steel coaster....
5. Next up was Blue Streak. It’s a old wooden one, kinda basic, no big drops or hills or anything. Not as exciting as, say, Raptor or Millennium Force, but I’m still glad we rode it.
6. Iron Dragon. It’s kinda like the Blue Streak in fear and excitement level, but cool none the less. You ride in cars that swing on the track... (Steel coaster)
7. Mantis- All of our first “AHHH you STAND while on the coaster!!!!” ride. OK, so none of us ever actually said that. But it was our first one. You are standing, too. AND it goes upside-down. Not so huge for me, but it was neat to try, anyway.
8. Millennium Force! I’m pretty sure it broke some record... And it rocks! Just fast enough for me. No need to fear it at all, unless you don’t like speed. It’s terribly fun! (Steel)
9. Mean Streak, a wooden coaster that looks worse than it is. You think that it’ll hurt like all wooden coasters(Other than a few choice older ones) but it’s no problem. Not to mention that (1) it overlooks Frontier Town, a very good place to pick up a slice of pizza and hang around, and (2) the wait, at least most of it, is in the shade!
10. Top Thrill Dragster, a straight up, across, and straight down steel coaster. To be honest, the speed hurt. But if I rode it again I probably would’ve been fine- other than that 45 minute to 1 hour line!
11. Magnum. It’s having it’s 20th anniversary, too! The line wasn’t that bad, the coaster wasn’t superb or anything, but it rocked. Not to mention the people in front of us were friendly. :)
12. Corkscrew. Impersonation of me on the cork-screwy part: “Owowowow! Dang it this hurts!” Dad: “Remember, this was all we had as kids. We thought it was amazing then!” Heh, no offense Dad. We’ll just call this wooden one a history lesson coaster. (HLC)
13. Power Tower- We chose the fast down one. I was a bit annoyed by the “Hey, you get to go up to the top and then wait for 5 minutes before anything happens! Then enjoy yourself as we drop you half a foot before you actually fall!” But the drop was nice.
14. MAVERICK! Long wait but WELL worth it. The ride is so unexpected! And fast! And has so many drops and turns! *Is hyper just thinking about it* Yes, I got a T-Shirt from it. I was so worried that it would be down when we went to ride it, but we managed to get on later in the day. I’d so ride it again!
15. We got to see the light show once it was all over. They turn on lights in Frontier Town and you can just walk around... Not to mention how cool it is that the lights are based on seasons- Winter, Fall, Spring, Summer. I got photos that’ll be in the album....
16. Finally, the Skyway for a wonderful exit. Col got a video of us leaving- maybe he’ll post it somewhere.

PhotoBlog 2- Too Much Time on My Hands

Wed, 27 May 2009 08:23:54 -0400

This is what happens when you have a pencil and a un-reusable menu.
You make a cat out of the toast and mashed potatoes. I had also made a cyclops out of the steak and Colin had made some masterpieces of his own, but there isn’t any room. So you’ll just have to imagine the mayhem.