25-year WOF relationship goes up in flames

Arson. We had entered Worlds of Fun, intent on catching the 6 p.m. "Squawk the Bird Show" performance, when my cell phone rang with the news that our house was on fire. So we never saw the show that day. Aug. 6, 2024 Fast-forward 10 months. Attempting to recover, we had no funds for season … Continue reading 25-year WOF relationship goes up in flames

Cedar Fair Parks Tour: Comparing Park Features

While touring the various parks, besides noting what we enjoy and had fun with at each park, we started making comparisons and contrasts between them. Certain themes began to arise in our minds. Today’s post will start a short to moderate discussion of the things we observed and discussed during our tour. True, we only … Continue reading Cedar Fair Parks Tour: Comparing Park Features

Cedar Fair Parks Tour: King’s Island

Of the three parks designed on the same model -- King’s Dominion, Canada’s Wonderland, King’s Island – King’s Island probably has the best balance from entry to roaming. We arrived at King’s Island on Thursday evening, and got modestly lost on the way to the park before getting ourselves turned the right way. As per … Continue reading Cedar Fair Parks Tour: King’s Island

Cedar Fair Parks Tour: Canada’s Wonderland

Our schedule for touring the parks also had a few other events on it to be planned around. That is why we didn’t hit Carowinds in the Carolinas nor Dorney Park in Pennsylvania.  Our next park was on Saturday, July 8 in Vaughn Canada: Canada’s Wonderland. We left Buffalo that morning, and with generally clear … Continue reading Cedar Fair Parks Tour: Canada’s Wonderland

Cedar Fair Parks Tour: King’s Dominion

After our sojourn to LibertyCon 2017, the family started our second sojourn of the summer: a tour of Cedar Fair amusement parks. We began the tour in Virginia with King’s Dominion amusement park, Doswell, VA. We traveled to King’s Dominion on Monday, July 3, getting to the park for the first time during the early … Continue reading Cedar Fair Parks Tour: King’s Dominion