Despite a scare of thunderstorms early this morning, we trudged on to visit Canada's Wonderland, a massive amusement park featuring terrifying roller coasters with stomach-jolting drops. Luckily the storms had passed by 9 o'clock, which not only allowed us to stay dry but also limited the number of people visiting the park, so the lines were quite short. The rest of Team USA convinced me (Ema) that the rides would be more fun than scary, and I trusted them and ended up having a lot of fun.
The 'Leviathan' was enormous!
Having only ridden one roller coaster before in my life--the wooden rickety one at Coney Island, which is several hundred years old, or seems to be--it was perhaps a rash decision to ride the biggest, tallest, and fastest ride first. I did survive the ride, but experienced some morbid thoughts when we dropped more than three hundred feet. My stomach was just about in my mouth! I only opened my eyes after we came to a stop.
Another ride, which allowed our feet to swing around the turns.
We continued to take advantage of the short lines and rode about six more rides before lunch, all of which were thankfully a bit less scary than the first one. After lunch, we ventured to the water park section of Canada's Wonderland. Jenn and KC chickened out and decided the water was a bit too cold for their liking, but Nicole and I rode almost all the water rides, including fun slide races.
The spinning pendulum, which swung high into the air for a thrilling ride.
After a long and fun day, we boarded the bus again at 4 o'clock and headed back to Guelph. We gorged on a lovely Indian dinner while watching footage from Rolex 2011. Then we enjoyed some hilarious skits from the Canadians and Australians, featuring a parody on our favourite bus driver, John, and a funny rendition of preparing for a horse show.
We are so ready for the Nation's Cup! Bring on the competition.
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