coaster riding on your honeymoon...

Almost...

My wife and I spent a week in Maine on our honeymoon. The second part of the week we stayed in York Harbor and one day we drove to Portland and passed through Saco. Right past Funtown. Got a good look at Excalibur sitting idle for the winter. We also drove past the little rickety steel coaster at Palace Playland in Old Orchard Beach... also closed for the winter. Even though it was only the beginning of October, the "season" in Maine ends early it seems.

On the way back to PA we were going to stop off at SFNE... but we had to cut the honeymoon a day short because our house sitter (my wife's sister) was not available for that Saturday and we had to get back since we had a dog waiting at home for us.

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Kind of hard to take a post as objective if a park or coaster name is part of the "user name"

Mark, she knows that I plan to do this and thinks it is a good compromise. And just for the record, she would never go on Magnum. She will only go on rides where the first drop turn... But I am changing her, she is the one saying that she wants to go to Cedar Point this summer.

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I might as well brag before the park opens.
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No doubt, re: amusement park proposals. Once again, unless your future spouse is an all-out coaster maniac, this is not a good idea. Think of something creative! I have heard my wife tell the story of how I proposed probably 50 times. If I had done it on a roller coaster, she would have been furious.... :)

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A day is a drop of water in the ocean of eternity. A week is seven drops.

I doubt I will really do it that way, but it sure is fun to tease her about it.

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Superman - Ultimate Flight SFGAm = 15
I might as well brag before the park opens.
http://www.coasterbuzz.com/forum.aspx?mode=thread&TopicID=30747

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Jeff said:
That's just it... Stephanie does enjoy the parks, but it's less of a vacation for her, and really me too. Our whirlwind park trips hardly result in any rest.

If you get bored in Hawaii you're going the wrong places. Eight days on Kauai alone and we still didn't hit everything we wanted to do.

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Well, baby "T" (the only person I can currently conceptualize marrying besides Janet Jackson) said the same thing about Hawaii. There just hasnt been anything that I've seen about Hawaii that necessitates more than an extended weekend. I'm actually more intrigued with going to Alaska (but that's just a personal prefernce).

And (referring also to jonathan) who said that "fun w/ coasters" and "relaxing" had to be mutally exclusive. I think that the problem with enthusiasts is that they generally act like every day of a vacation has to be an "Open to Close" park day. That's not true. You could have a perfectly tame vacation and throw in one or two days of "thrill".

In the words of a young man in A League of Their Own: "Hey! Can't we do both?"

lata, jeremy

EDIT: One other thing, as mentioned above, it DEFINITELY has to be something you both want to do.

--who has a suspicion that his honeymoon will involve a trip to "wine country"
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Mark W. Baruth said:
Sorry, I just can't visualize walking around in theme park attire on my honeymoon, waiting in lines with smokers and wading through trash-filled queues

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Gee, when you put it like that, why go to amusement parks at all?!?!

I am getting married next weekend and my fiance enjoys rollercoasters (not quite as much as I do, but she loves going to parks). We will be spending our honeymoon at a resort in the north Georgia mountains (near the beginning of the Appalachian Trail). Our honeymoon plans include many romantic things, but we also plan on incorporating two parks into our plans. We will be going to SFoG and then BGW on the return trip. I certainly don't think romance will be short-changed.

And from the sounds of it, some people find this form of entertainment to be more of a job and less of a hobby...What a shame!

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I don't get to travel too often, so when I do, I try to go somewhere that has coasters nearby. I sometimes get disappointed when I can't set aside a day or two of vacation to hit at least one park.

That said, I'll be tying the knot in May of 2004, and we're looking to have our honeymoon in St. Thomas. Think I'll miss riding coasters then? Wrong! ;)

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Have you ridden a Toboggan?

I dunno, Jeremy, I could spend a week even on the Big Island, and that's the "dull" one. The jetlag alone made the long weekend tough -- an extra day on each end to allow adjusting would have been great.

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When I was at SFStL on April 18th, while in line to ride Mr Freeze, I met the guy that got married on The Legend (I'm sorry, I don't remember your name). But I think it would be cool to have some coasters in a honeymoon.

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"Some people spend an entire LIFETIME wondering if they made a DIFFERENCE. The MARINES don't have that problem." -President Reagan 1985

Eons ago when I got married, we went to Orlando for our honeymoon, and visited WDW/Epcot, Sea World and BGT, and had a great time. Most of our vacations involved visiting at least one park, sometimes a lot of parks! These were good times too. While this marriage ended two years ago, if someday I ever have the chance to get married again, I'm sure that coasters or parks will be involved somehow. Hard to say at this point, of course, but I can't imagine marrying someone that didn't share interest in this hobby, and would certainly never want someone that would "dictate" what the wedding/honeymoon would be about. Compromise and discussion is always the key. Of course, as I've often told people, if I get married again it will be by Elvis in Las Vegas (or something equally tacky), so that rules anyone without a sense of fun and adventure...

dt

Joey and I honeymooned at Kennywood, Knoebels, Hershey, Dorney, & SFGAd last summer and had a great time. I always thought I would want to go to Venice, Italy for my honeymoon (went in 97 and it seemed like such a romantic place!) but Joey has no interest in Europe. We thought about Hawaii but bought a new house a week before the wedding so we didn't really want to spend lots on the honeymoon. We had a great Honeymoon at the parks we went to (all new parks for us) and I wouldn't change a thing! Just glad he likes coasters as much as I do :)

Granted, Amusement parks aren't too 'romantic' but I would rather have fun than romance so I guess it depends on the couple....

My husband and I went to Orlando last year for our honeymoon and ended up going to IOA, but we also took in lots of other attractions. Not only are we both coaster enthusiasts, but we both love racing. (So Daytona was obviously on our list.) It worked out well. We had a week to do whatever we wanted. Fortunately for us, we got to do all kinds of fun things and even have time to relax and enjoy it! The trip to IOA was really good...we had a blast on the coasters during the day then did CityWalk at night.

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I am SO ready to ride!

The little lady and I are heading to CP and SFWOA May 22nd-25th.

We then get married June 11th and are heading to San Fran for SFMW and PGA June 12th-16th.

im going to cedar oint on my honeymoon in aug. my reception theam is relationships are like coasters it has its ups and down. and the tables will have coaster names

Jeff said:
We went to Hawaii on purpose because there were no coasters there.

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We did?? I thought you were bummed because we didn't stop in California on our way out. ;)

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