So, yesterday, I got back from my spring break vacation, which was conspicuously shorter than spring break itself. The majority of it was spent with my family, something spring breaks whould never be spent with. Spring breaks should be spent in warm tropical climates, partyfying and fornimacating. However, I did get to stay at a pretty s****y hotel and go to Busch Gardens Europe in Virginia. I'll start with...
The Good
Of all the rollercoasters I got on, all of them were soul-crushingly badass. My original intention was to buy a T-shirt commemorating my triumph over each of them, although since my funds were not in the quadruple digets, I had to settle for a Big Bad Wolf T-shirt.
I rode every coaster in the park except for Apollo's Chariot and Griffon. I skipped Apollo's Chariot since it was near closing time and I got lost trying to find it, and I skipped Giffon since it scared the [dukar] out of me.
Of all the coasters I rode, Alpengeist was the most hardcore. No floor + being upside down more often than not = freakin' awesome. Even awesomer was the fact that the line was ridiculously short, for some reason.
I got a funnel cake and asked for a "very small amount" of powdered sugar on top. I later suffocated from the cloud of powdered sugar rising off the funnel cake and died.
At a nearby bookstore I bought the first two volumes of The Walking Dead.
I have a habit of drumming on flat objects when I'm bored. There was this one wood table in the lobby of the hotel I stayed at that created an absolutely rich, deep bass when drummed on. I was occupied for a good twenty minutes on that table. One guy started dancing to it.
The Bad
The line for Curse of DarKastle was a good 45 minute wait. That is approximately 600 times the length of the ride itself.
The #1 of theme park lines: the longer you wait in a line alone, the higher the chances of some jack*** accusing you of line-cutting so he can get ahead become. I myself got accused of line-cutting by a group of Russian tourists in line for DarKastle, and the backlash was so great I had to move BEHIND THEM to get everyone to shut the **** up.
Curse of DarKastle sucked. Imagine a simplified theme park version of the movie version of Disney's Haunted Mansion ride, dumb it up, and make it last four minutes.
I saw in the arcade a game called MTV DrumScape. Here's how it works: You pay $1.33 in tokens, pick a song (I chose "Simon Says" by Pharoah Monch because I had 30 seconds to choose, twenty of which were spent wading through Linkin Park and Rascal Flats), listen to the full song, and pretend to bang on a plastic drum set. I repeat: You pay money to listen to a song and slap some fake drums, which have no effect on the song itself.
Now you detail your spring break experience here.
