My sister and I went to Great America yesterday to have some fun fun fun! I remembered to wear the right pair of shoes (can be tied securely to my feet), the right top (long sleeves to cover my arms… freckles, you know) and the right bag (small and cheap). What I forgot was to put on sunscreen. Crap. So now my nose is sunburned and I have two new freckles on my chin. Next time, I’m going to make a checklist.

We tried some pretty cool rides but I wouldn’t recommend Vortex and The Demon to roller coaster lovers because they suck. Demon would slam your head side-to-side and front-to-back and in atsi’s case, pull your neck. Vortex isn’t any better. It’s the only stand-up roller coaster in Northern California and that’s a good thing because it will make you feel uncomfortable in the nether regions. The less I see of stand-up roller coasters, the better.

I highly recommend Flight Deck, Fire Fall and Survivor: The Ride! I also highly recommend the last ride that atsi and I took which was Extreme Skyflyer. You have to pay extra for this though because it’s an added attraction. According to Wiki, it’s a 170 ft (52 m) tall skycoaster flying 17 stories at 60 mph (97 km/h). According to atsi naman, she will never do this again hahaha! Extreme Skyflyer looks a lot like bungee jumping and skydiving. So I’ll just describe it as bungee flying.

To give you a clearer idea of what extreme skyflyer is, check out the video below which I found on youtube. We actually had the option of getting our bungee flying on dvd but atsi and I were too cheap to shell out 30 bucks for it so I’ll just have to settle for someone else’s video of their extreme skyflyer experience.

(I can’t view this video using the latest version of Firefox, but when I switch to IE, the youtube video is there - scratch scratch head)