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We passed a crew of 3 on their way to the hallow.  They stopped and shot the chalk sign on the ground that talked about the event.

Oh yes, we did Fire in the Hole.  I was unaware that it ended in a bath  .  Someone mentioned the "surprise" on this site, but I never questioned what it was.  The girls really liked that one too.  My wife and I don't really like to get wet, but we enjoyed the dark surprise!

They liked the expo coaster too, but there was a line on that one from time to time, so they only rode it about 6 or 7 times  .  Besides not riding WF and The Giant Swing and not enjoying PK, I think we rode every other ride and liked them all.  There was supposed to be some dinosaurs in a barn somewhere, but be forgot about it and never made it to them. 

Since we live in KC and the drive is not bad at all, I think we will be venturing to SDC more often!!!!

They shut down Thunderation during this "event".  We were pretty bummed because we bypassed the "event" to ride rides.  Thunderation was our favorite, so we were not thrilled that we could not ride it for a while.   

I wanted to give a recap of our trip to SDC on 06/09-06/10.  We had an incredible time and I wanted to share.

We stayed at the Deer Run Motel, mainly because it is close to SDC and offers a free shuttle (I hate traffic).  The hotel was fine.  It was dated, but clean and the people were sooooooooooo nice.  The owners made my girls promise to stop by the office each night after the  park to tell them all about it.  They really made them feel special.

We arrived at the park at 8:40 on Thursday.  We just wandered around the open shops and waited for the opening ceremony.  It was very nice.  Anytime you can honor veterans, it is a good thing.  Once the park opened, I took my 8yo daughter to flooded mine (she has never been on a roller coaster, so she was not ready yet).  My wife and 10yo daughter went off to ride Wildfire and PowderKeg.  I usually go on the coasters with her, but these looked out of my league.  She was sure she wanted to ride them.  She took one look at all the loops on WF and backed out.  They did go on PK though, but it scared her to death.  She would not ride any coasters the rest of the day.  But, we still had a great day.  We did the cave and saloon.  I think they rode the swings and galeon about 20 times.  I loved seeing them sprint to re-ride rides.  Makes you feel like a kid again.  We eventually found our way to Thunderation.  The 10yo would not even think about it.  The 8yo wanted to try it.  She loved it.  So did I.  I think we road it 10 times.  There were no lines at anything we rode (we did not do water rides this day).  We closed the park and stayed for the show.  We all loved it.  Got back to the hotel about 9:30.  Shower-BED!!!!!!

We arrived at the park at 8:40 again on Friday.  We wore swimsuits this day to take advantage of the water rides.  We started off with Thunderation, which the 10yo decided to try.  She liked it so we rode it again.  She still liked it, but she didn't ride it again.  She was still pretty freaked out by PK.  Anyway, we did the Lost River, Riverblast and plunge.  My 8yo and I could have stayed at Riverblast all day shooting people (that did not sound right).  The family didn't seem interested in the gulch or in re-riding any water rides, so we dried off and put our sneakers back on and hit the dry rides again.  We spent a lot of time in the expo area riding the swings and galeon again.  THE ONLY BAD EXPERIENCE WE HAD was on Friday afternoon.  The had the trapeze artist in the helicopter.  We were not very intersted so we decided to use that hour to ride our favorites before we left - only they closed Thunderation because of the helicopters.  WHAT??  I did not take the family to SDC to see a freak show, I came to ride rides.  Very disappointed.  They finally re-opened it, but it was almost time to leave (5:00 shuttle).  So we decided to stay until closing again and were able to get in all the rides we needed. 

So, we spent 13 hours at the park on Thursday and 11 hours at the park on Friday.  We had a great time.  As I said, it was not real busy.  I think people must have been waiting for Kids fest. 

Thanks to all to offered tips.  The "free ice water" tip was a lifesaver!!!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE GREAT INFORMATION.  We had a terrific time at SDC.  I will try to post details in the other thread.

These are all great tips.  Thanks everyone.  We are in the process of reading up on the different rides to figure out which ones we want to make sure we ride and which ones we will do if we have time. 

My girls are really excited about the demonstrations as well.  My oldest read a book that mentioned SDC a lot, something about a wood carver.  That is all she has been talking about this week :-).

Hello all.  I am bringing the wife and kids (girls 10 & down to SDC next week (from KC).  We are all very excited.  I am curious, with the ages of my girls, what parts of the park would they be to old for (HDH maybe)?

Any tips of the trade that you experts could offer would be greatly appreciated.  We went to Disneyland a couple years ago.  I think I spent 2 months planning the trip and our agenda in the park.  I am not doing that with SDC, I want to enjoy it more.  But, I am sure there are still some advice that we can heed that will help us pack in as much fun as we can.

Thanks!!!!