Don't have a lot of details to this story/memory but thought some would find it funny.
I have very vivid but vague memories of my parents taking me to SDC with I was very young. I would have been in the mid-80's and I was probable only 5-6 years old. In fact I did even realized that these memories where from SDC till I visited again in my mid- 20's. Some even came back that I didn't realize I still remembered
Basically....SDC really really scared the heck out of me......(I was a pretty chicken kid)
Diving Bell - I don't remember what it looked like from the outside. Just remember being in a weird place and I picked up enough of the story line that I did really think that we where underwater and in trouble. I don't think my parents every really explained that it was just for fun and confused the heck out of me.
Saloon Show....I remember it being loud and crowded. The bad guy and his gun scared me. My Dad got pick to go on stage and I thought the bad guy was going to get him. I didn't understand why he and my mom where so 'relaxed' and laughing. I really just wanted to leave. (this memory came back to me at the show the first time back)
Train - Seriously!!!! bad guys robbing the train (I don't think I ever caught my parent cues that it was in fun). In my later years I'd assume this was from WoF.
Flooded Mine - I'll need some help with this one....but didn't the flooded mine have a more 'scary' theme before the guns? I'm 99% sure was in tears scared to death through most of the ride when I rode it at 5-6. I remember things like skulls with lights for eyes and vividly remember a giant saw above the boat the used to move down like it was going to get you. While riding it again when I was 20 I had to put my gun down and started to freak out with memories. That was really when I realized I had been here done this before:)
Add to that I remember my Dad teasing me about going to the SDC jail (probably cause I just had freaked on everything else).
BTW....I also vaguely remember the balloon ride, Treehouse, and cave restaurant without the terrifying moments:)
Now days I'm a big amusement park fan and love SDCs classic rides....I wish I could remember FiTH (not sure if we rode it). My own little ones are a little chicken too but its been fun to take them on the same rides and watch them experience it all:)
In fact one of my proudest little parenting moments was when my oldest was 4 and wanted to go on FiTH to be a 'big kid'. She seemed very emotional through the whole ride and had a death grip on my arm that was over her lap. She was quiet from the end of the ride to the exit door....I thought I was going to be dealing with a little me and have to face a wife who didn't approve....but before the end of the exit ramp she started screaming "THAT WAS GREAT....LETS DO IT AGAIN!!!!"