Trip To Knott

Looking through the lens of retrospect hasn’t truly helped me decide the question: If I could go back and change the decision I made last August, would I? The choice I made to skip a line to save about an hour of our time was risky, careless, and poorly planned, but technically it was a success. If only no one had questioned us in our attempt, then this would barely be an inside joke, much less an essay.
After our first experience at Magic Mountain, my siblings and I had the bug. The thrilling, heart-beating, white-knuckled bug of high-speed, high-altitude roller coasters. We spent our entire summer of 2016 recalling our test of bravery and discussing future trips to theme parks to do it again. The original plan was to go the Tuesday before school started, but our Mom’s ill-timed sickness made a trip to Knott’s impossible. Our activity was instead postponed, giving us two weeks of Knott’s-less, school-filled depression. When the day …show more content…
The day contained many great, memorable experiences, including many first-time rides for Tatum.
Since we waited to go on a Saturday, Luke, Abby, Tatum, Shane, and I endured numerous long lines. By the time the sun had set over Orange County, many of the park visitors, including my party, were making their way to that last ride of the day . Since it was the one decent ride we hadn’t been on that day, the Pony Express was our choice to be the finishing ride. Looking at the line, you wouldn’t have thought it would take any more than forty minutes, but because of the attraction’s lack of seating capacity and a long loading time, getting to the loading dock took upwards of an hour and a half. Previously, Luke had told us about a strategy he and Jace used when they had come