I'm finally home after a long week! I've had so much fun, but I'm glad to be home and relax for a while...well relax and do things here as well. Next week I'm volunteering at the Art Center, which you can see the link here: http://www.riversideartscenter.org/ I'm so excited, since I always gain new little friends, or "buddies" lol as they like to call me. That's all week! Then the week of the 4th I'm free, so if you wanna hang out, call me. ;) I'm probably going to Itchnatucknee (sp) that week sometime, which is always amazing and is one of my
favorite things to do during the summer.
The next two weeks after that, excluding weekends, I'll be at band camp! Yayayyyy! What I'm excited for mostly that week is on the 17th my youth group and I will be going to Coco beach literally 12 hours and PARASAILING!!!!!!! I've never been, so I'll be a little nervous, but I've been to Coco Beach many times, and hopefully that helps. The week after that I'll be going to church camp for five days, then be picked up and go to Chicago for almost two weeks! :P I'll be busy there with my family.
The weeks to come after that are to be decided, but either way, this is going to be a great summer! We are only about 2 weeks into it. It's been really long so far, but mostly because I've been so busy.
So back to Bucsh Gardens! It's based on Africa, so there's like Egypt, Morocco, Stanleyville (not a real place, but based on a explorer), Congo, the Serenghtti Plain, and tons of other places. I rode all of the coasters, but I have before, so they were nothing new, except my sister forced me to ride IN THE FRONT of ShieKra, the 2nd tallest coaster in the USA. The tallest is some 450 feet roller coaster in New Jersey...never going on it. I put up a picture of the SheiKra on here. It has 2 straight down 90 degree angle that it drops you down! I love the SheiKra normally, but in the second or third row. I'm terrified of the first, because it dangles you at the top of the drop for at least 5 seconds. That's scary in the 2nd or 3rd row, imagine the 1st. I admit, it was fun, and a total rush, but I don't think I'd want to do the front again. Don't get me wrong, the SheiKra is amazing but super short. It's only like 15 seconds long.
Other Roller Coasters include: the Gwazi, which is a very fast and jerky, yet fun, wooden roller coaster, the Montu, which is a very flippy and probably my 2nd favorite coaster, Kumba, which is also flippy and fast, and pretty good too. There's also the Scorpian, which is ok. It's kinda boring. There's tons of other stuff too. Rapids, flumes, and shows. Oh yes! The shows were all amazing!!! We saw one where the animals could do things that you would think only humans can do. It's really cool. Also, there's a show called KaTonga, which is a bunch of singing and dancing. It was really cool, and so were the effects.
I could say a lot more about it, but my hands are hurting from typing. I'll see ya'll later! Have a great summer!
XOXOXO
Audrey ;)