Back from vacation!

Almost a year without blogging, decided I was well overdue for a blog.

Got back from a few days in Williamsburg at Busch Gardens/Water Country. We decided to do it in the middle of the week so there would be a bit less of a crowd.

We started with Busch Gardens. Weather great at 93 degrees. Not a cloud in the sky. Rode all the coasters. Rode Griffon for the first time, and that was great! I've been on a ton of roller coasters, but this was the first that tips down the drop and hangs there for about 5 secs, then drops you 90 degrees straight down.   The food there was really good- best for an amusement park (was a show on Food Network about Amusement Park food and it featured Busch Gardens). We saw a few of the shows- wow are they cheesy. They had an Oktoberfest thing I was interested to see since I play in one at Mountain Lake in October. Musicians were decent, but the singers/dancers- think Disney meets Germany. All the traditions were done very stale and done like a broken record- no authenticity to it, kind of a shame. Ours is better.  Other than that, we had a good time

Water Country was day 2. Once again hot weather, no clouds. Perfect weather for water park. Only one problem- sidewalks were scorching hot. Felt like I could relate to firewalkers to a very slight degree- less you think about the pain, the better. :)  Thank god for sandals we brought. Was a fun, relaxing day. Some pretty cool slides, a bit more people than I thought, but great time.

Headed back today for a weekend at home to just hang out. We're gonna go see The Dark Knight tomorrow, which I've been waiting to see since the last movie.

Glad to be back and looking forward to gaming again!