Tripsdrill always opens the weekend before Easter, so with a late holiday this year, it has been over a year since our last visit. Today, with gorgeous weather and missing the fun outings to the cute little park so nearby, we popped over and bought a new set of annual passes--which means I will be boring you all going on and on about Tripsdrill in several posts over the next few months.
I won't try to post about the entire park--heck we did not even try to see the whole park today (ahh, the advantage of an annual pass)--but just post bits and pieces from various visits.
This is such a pretty little place, very nicely landscaped, and never overly crowded or loud. The result is that David and I can have a fabulous time just walking around and people watching, even if we never get on a ride (which Dave says means he has now happily become one of those "lame old people" of whom he used to be critical as a teen!).
See how pretty it is?
We did actually ride a few things today, starting with the Mammut coaster. I love this wood coaster; it is much smoother than a typical wood coaster and just a heck of a lot of fun (and well themed). The coaster is themed as if you are a log going through a saw mill, complete with sawdust smell.
One of the things I love about Tripsdrill are the old, very quirky, areas. I get a kick out of the original "storyline" of the oldest section of theme park (the slide is older, but was not part of the admission themepark from what we can tell). The old admissions ticket windows are still there and you walk right through them from one part of the park to another:
In the original park, as soon as you passed through the entrance you were in the vineyard area. There are displays about wine making, a tasting room and this fun little teacupesque ride that might leave you feeling a bit drunk even if you refrain from sampling the local wines:
and, in the original storyline of the park, being drunk leads to, a wedding, right?
and just past the wedding area, there is a ride called the Honeymoon Drive, in which various vehicles (horse drawn carriages, Model Ts, etc) ride around a little track past houses, farms, etc. After the honeymoon, of course, you will have a baby (which you simply pull up out of a well!):
From there the park leads into a display on jobs, and various housework themed rides. So, yes, basically the oldest part of the park tells the story of life as an adult as:
get drunk
get married
go on a honeymoon
have a kid
get a job
and clean house!
On a different note, another thing that I love about Tripsdrill is that they not only have reasonably priced and good food available, but they also allow and almost encourage bringing a picnic from home. The parking lot is close to the entrance and it is easy to bop out to the car for food and bring it in when you are ready for lunch. Mmmmmm.
My last little mention for this post; a new coaster opened late last season. Outside theming is still not in, and I did not go through the line with the kids today--though I will have to next time. They say the steel coaster has a forge theme to balance out the wood coaster's sawmill theme. I love it! Here are a couple of shots of the new coaster, which has several inversions (I may ride it someday, but am not always up for so much and was not today). The kids are in the car shown upside down, but it is too dark to tell I think).
--Hadley
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