Last year when we took John to Silverwood, he was quite disappointed that he could not ride a ‘big’ roller coaster because he wasn’t tall enough. We speculated that this year he would grow at least a couple inches and sure enough, he did. John’s daycare had an outing this past Wednesday to Silverwood Theme Park and kids John’s age could go IF a parent would accompany them. David offered to go so John could attend.
Once inside the park John said he wanted to ride a roller coaster so David took him over to Tremors, a big wooden one. The line wasn’t too long, but after 20 minutes in line, John decided he needed a bathroom trip, so they lost their place in line. When they returned, it took about 30 minutes to get to the front of the line and John was pretty excited. We thought he was going to be measured because he was only an inch over the minimum height, but that didn’t happen.
They climbed in their seat, strapped in and off they went. The ride started with a slow steep climb to about 100 feet and John commented that he could see for miles. Around a sharp bend, the cars dived almost vertically down through the gift shop and into the first of four tunnels. John didn’t say very much or make any noise for the rest of the ride, and the photo is our only visual record of what he thought of the ride.
When the ride ended abruptly back at the station, John said that he would never go on a big roller coaster ever again, which amused many of the other riders nearby.
I talked to John later that afternoon and asked him if he had a good time. He said yes. I asked if he had ridden the big roller coaster and he said yes. I asked him if it was fun and he started to say YES and changed it to a NO, it was TOO scary, there were too many tunnels.
He really did have a good rest of the after that ride. He and David rode the Log Flume, Bumper Boats, Carrousel and Steam Train. John spent most of the rest of the time riding the Red Barron plane ride.
John has been taking a copy of this picture everywhere for the past two days, including daycare and church, proudly telling people about his brave exploits!
