Hi Everybody! I found SDC Fans in a google search I think, and have really enjoyed reading your posts and looking at the photos of the park updates. Thanks to everyone who does that for those of us who live so far away. My real name is Ron but I decided to use the name "Pastor Don" because I was called up on stage to be in the Frontier Follies show in 2004 and Choctaw Charlie (Shannon) said, "Give the gun Pastor Don", after I "shot out all the lights". He went on to comment: "You don't hear that too often!" My family first discovered SDC when we were living in central Illinois about 9 years ago. We went just about every year when it was just a 5 hour drive for us, and in 2004 we had season tickets. We moved to South Dakota in 2007 and the last time I was at SDC was in May of that year. We're finally getting to go back in June and I'm really excited. Turning 50 this year, so I GET IN FREE!!
I have been a Disney park fan for many years, but over the years SDC has grown on me to the point where it is replacing Disneyland as the "happiest place on earth". (After all, who wants to go to California these days?
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Our favorite ride is Wildfire with Powderkeg as a close second.
One of my dreams over the years has been to take a summer sabbatical and work at SDC, but don't know if that will ever happen, when my daughter was 7 or 8 she wanted to be a "Saloon Girl". (Try explaining that to a church group!)
One of my favorite things to do is go to the park early right when it opens, and eat breakfast at Mollie's Mill, then, after the flag raising, it's off to Wildfire! I've shot a lot of video at SDC over the years and right now I'm working on one called "The Best of SDC" to post on the 50th Anniversary site.
Well, thanks for having this site and all you folks who go opening weekend be sure to take lots of pictures of River Blast to share those of us who have to wait a couple more months!