I finally got my chance to go to Busch Gardens! I haven't been to a large roller coaster park since I was little and too scared to ride them. This time I wasn't going to say no to any ride!
We got in the park and saw Cheetah's running around playing! It was so awesome, they are super fast kittens :]
My first upside down roller coaster included seven inversions. The lines were so short that we rode it two times in a row, just hopping to a difference seat.
Next was Sheikra. It went 200 feet up in a slow ticking steading progress up the ramp, then dangled us on the verge of a 90 degree drop for four seconds, then down the drop we went. The ride goes more than 70 miles an hour and has some loops along with another vertical dive, an underground tunnel and another twist to finish. When we looked at the pictures afterwards, I looked scared out of my mind. The 90 degree drop is like being in a freefall. It was so thrilling and amazing!
We stopped for lunch when some rain clouds approached. We had some delicious food while sheltering from the rain and watching giraffes parade around outside. Also had some of the rare yet delicious dippin dots!
Cheetah is the new ride of the park. It is a three minute ride, which is super long for a roller coaster. It accelerates to 60 miles in hour in two seconds with the growl of a cheetah or as they say, "Go from zero to cheetah." Unfortunately we waited in line for an hour and a half. The ride kept breaking down and then they'd fix it and run tests and it'd break again. It actually got quite stressful, but we finally made it on thankfully!
Then we took a ride on a classic wooden roller coaster which was quite jarring. We also rode two water rides and got pretty soaked on both. On the rafting ride Ashley got stuck under a waterfall and somehow the random people on the other side managed to stay perfectly dry, it was ridiculous.
Next we took a ride that looked like a ski lift, only with big blue buckets. It lifted us slowly around the park so that we could gaze down on all of the animals. It was awesome to see all kinds of foreign creatures just grazing about.
The last ride that I went on was an Egyptian themed ride where your legs are dangling the whole time. It was my favorite!
We walked around the park a bit to see the animals from the ground as well. I was watching hyenas pacing around separated simply by a glass panel. Next to the hyenas there were some lions of course! I also was able to look into a sleeping white tigers mouth through a little glass bubble in the ground that the tiger was sleeping up against.
All and all I really loved the parked in both it's animal and ride components! Would go back in a heartbeat!
