Road Trip!

Josh and I have been wanting to go on a road trip since early in our relationship, and this break finally gave us the opportunity to go! Picking the location was half the battle. Potential destinations ranged from the Wisconsin Dells to Washington D.C., but we finally landed on Sandusky, Ohio, the home of Cedar Point. If you aren't familiar with Cedar Point, just know that is houses some of the worlds biggest and baddest roller coasters!

We started our six hour excursion at 4 in the morning, and yes we were pretty exhausted, but we wanted to get to the park as soon as it opened at 10am. Only problem? There is a time difference we completely forgot about! So we ended up getting there at 11, which worked out just fine.

We experienced a lot of excitement on the road, including an encounter with a cop, seeing a car flip over, seeing a car on fire, and seeing a truck tire pop. Needless to say, Josh was driving with his hands on ten and two the entire time.

The day we went happened to be the first day of the season. We expected it to be packed but we were pleasantly surprised to find that it wasn't. We purchased fast passes that allowed us to cut to the front of every line and made for a max wait time of about 20 minutes. This allowed us to ride fourteen (14!!!) rides in 7 hours at the park. We kept track of each ride on our map so we could remember them all. It was unbelievable! Our heads got a little jumbled from being jerked and flipped around so much, but we popped excedrin and powered through the pain!

I think it's fair to say that Josh's favorite part of the day was getting to admire the fanny pack I wore shamelessly (he was horrified and embarrassed by it). Ladies know what a pain it is to hold a purse on a roller coaster and how scary it is to leave your purse unattended in one of those bins, and a fanny pack eliminates all of those stressors! And after our keys fell out of Josh's pocket on the second ride and we nearly lost them, he was pro fanny pack.

The ride home was fairy uneventful, but it's six hours I will never forget! I had the best time singing at the top of my lungs along side Josh and exchanging stories that helped us get to know each other even better. It was a successful trip and another event we can check off our summer to-do list!