Ohio's Best Kept Secret

This weekend I met Matt and Jerry (Matt's friend from work) in Sandusky, Ohio so we could go to Cedar Point on Saturday. I got there first on Friday, and saw our hotel, the Howard Johnson. Hotel is relative, dump is more like it. We ended up not staying there because we didn't want our stuff stolen. We stayed at a Days Inn which was nicer.

If you know me, you've probably heard my theory on Ohio more than once. Everyone I've met from Ohio, for good or bad, has some sort of oddity about them. You could say that everyone has an oddity, but people from Ohio have exacerbated oddities that are 99% of the time weirdness. It's hard to put in words. If you go to Ohio, or just meet some people from Ohio you'll know what I mean. I think one of the reasons is that people are confused. Ohio is not really northern, not really midwestern, and not really southern. So, you have this mesh of people who are hillbilly/midwestern/northern...everything. It's so weird. Men and women love large, strange tattoos also. Tattoos like Seagrams bourbon on the back of your neck, or a 6" Dopey on your calf.

Cedar Point was a lot of fun though. We got there at 8:45 am and the park opened at 10:00 am. We ran down to Top Thrill Dragster (shown above) but it was closed. We then rode as much as we could. The lines were really long for a lot of rides and it was crowded but still so much fun. Finally, around 8:00 pm we saw the Dragster running, so Matt and I got in line. Jerry didn't want to ride. We waited about 2 hours for a 17 second ride but it was definately worth it. Going from 0-120 mph in 3.6 seconds then being blasted toward the sky and cresting at 400 feet is something everyone should experience once in their life. It was amazing.