Brendan and Lissy

Casey’s brother Brendan and Brendan’s daughter Lissy came to visit us this past weekend.  On Saturday we left Carly and Holland with some friends all day while we went to Cedar Point.  I felt bad at first that we were leaving the kids because I thought they’d have lots of fun at a theme park, but I am SO GLAD we didn’t bring them because Cedar Point is definitely and an older kid/adult theme park.  There are tons of huge roller coasters that you pretty much have to wait at least an hour in line to get on any of them. 

A new roller coaster opened last week and the line to it was 2 hours long… so we didn’t go on it, but my favorite ride out of the 5 that we had time for in 8 hours was this one:

image from Cedarpoint.com

Do you see how high that is!  It was so fun.  It held the record for the fastest roller coaster in the world until a few years ago. So,  remember how we passed up on the new roller coaster because the line was 2 hours long… we’ll this roller coaster (in pic) said the wait was 1 hour so we decided to wait in it… 2.5 hours later, yes TWO AND A HALF HOURS later we got to the front of the line and we were set to get on the 3rd next car, and the roller coaster BROKE down.  We figured we’d wait a bit longer to see if it would get fixed fast because we just waited what seemed a lifetime in line to get to the front, but a worker said it would take a long time to fix so everyone had to get out of line and they wouldn’t keep our places in line or anything like that. We were defeated and angry but we still wanted to go on it because we came so close.  So after riding a few other coasters we went back to this one and it was open again and they wouldn’t let us go back to the front so we waited another 1.5 hours in line and FINALLY got to ride it.  It was awesome though and I loved the ride but it was definitely not worth 4 hours of my life to wait for. 

That pretty much summed up our experience at Cedar Point… forever long lines for short rides.  There is an option to buy a Fast Pass, but the Fast Pass was $60 on top of the admission price so pretty much $100 total, maybe it was worth it to buy it but we couldn’t justify paying that much $, but I guess we justified wasting our day in lines…

Carly and Holland had so much fun playing with Uncle Brendan and Lissy.  Lissy gave Carly all her attention and Carly was in heaven.  On Monday we went to an Indians game.  We had awesome seats, and we had a great time, despite the 90 degree weather!  We also got Brendan to take pics of us by this sign.  We’ve been wanting to do it ever since we moved to Strongsville!

Thanks for coming and visiting us Brendan and Lissy!  We love having visitors!  We only have 7 more weeks in Ohio before we move to Arkansas so if anyone wants to experience Ohio come before then, otherwise come visit us later and get the dirty south experience in Arkansas :)