Here's a pic (stolen from Dens!) of us on the coaster! This was the ride where Dennis discovered he wasn't a huge fan of roller coasters! (The three of us all have our arms in the air and he's holding on for dear life).
Long story short, we get to Kingda Ka and the line is closed. I give the guard a sob story about how we'd only gotten to ride ONE RIDE (er, ok...and a $20 handshake...cha-ching!) and we were magically admitted to the line. Four hour wait, my ass! Wooooo! Here's us right up at the front of the line.
I passed the time in line by pretending to take pictures of Dennis so that I could capture a few surreptitious pictures of this awesomely awful "Growing Up Gotti" dude that was in line behind us. Sweet line-beard, dude! But then I stopped because I think he was catching on to me and the only thing worse than getting beat up by a 17 year-old is getting beat up by a 17 year-old with that wears foundation make up! Hahah.
We were all stoked, because we figured that Great Adventure would be totally empty on a Tuesday in October - but by the time we got to the park a little past 3pm, the place was totally fucking mobbed. We decided to go to one of the mellower coasters figuring the line would be the shortest and were met with this line that stretched out past the ride's entrance! Nitro: an hour and twenty minute wait!
Right when we got to the park, the first thing we noticed was Kingda Ka! They had just finished building it and none of has ridden it yet. It's 45 stories tall and uses a hydraulic launcher to catapult you from 0 - 128mph in 3.5 seconds. Total insanity. (At the time we were there, it was the world record holder for the fastest and tallest roller coaster!).
