I took the kiddo to Frontier City on Monday to ride his first roller coaster. Funny thing - it was also my first roller coaster ride.
Lemme just get this out there: I am NOT a ride person. At all. Never have been. Never will be. I am not an adreneline junkie and do not desire to be. However, I am a mom and sometimes have to do thing that I don't particularly ever want to do. Like ride a roller coaster - after Daddy has helpfully told the child, "I bet you just can't wait to ride that roller coaster with Mom can you?". It's times like that that I wish I could reach thru a cam and spread the love, painfully. Instead, in that case one my of "looks" had to suffice. Which only made Daddy giggle even more. Butthole.
So, there we are at The Silver Bullet". If you look, it says the ride is 42 seconds long - the shortest coaster in the park (it also happens to be the fastest, which is my justification for riding it - heh). Now, I can do just about anything horrible for 42 seconds - this just happens to be one of them. So, I put on the brave face and got in the roller coaster with the child and we rode the ride. I even let out a 'whoop!' somewhere in the middle. The child kept his eyes closed thru some of it, but there were no tears or anything. He just said when he got off that it was fun, but he probably didn't want to ride it again soon. Which is fine - he can ride with his Dad next time and I will stay firmly on the ground video taping everything for later. :)
After getting that out of the way, we had a great rest of the day riding the tilt a whirl too many times, getting soaked on the rapids (which Nate thought was a little lame since he has already ridden the rapids of the Colorado River) and plunging on the log ride. It was lots of fun.